Publications

Book Chapter

Lao, Y., Tsao, S., & Lepore, N. (2019). “Computer Aided Diagnosis in Pre-Clinical Dementia: From Single-Modal Metrics to Multi-Modal Fused Methodologies.” In Big Data in Multimodal Medical Imaging (pp. 47-70). Chapman and Hall/CRC.

Peer-Reviewed Journals

Gajawelli N*, Tsao S*,  Kromnick M, Nelson M, Leporé N, “Image Postprocessing Adoption Trends in Clinical Medical Imaging“, Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2019; 16 (7), 945-951. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2019.01.005 PMID: 31088712

Tsao S, Gajawelli N, Zhou J, Shi J, Ye J, Wang, Y, Leporé N, ” Feature Selective Temporal Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease Progression using Hippocampus Surface Morphometry.“, Brain and Behavior, 2017 Jun 9; 7:e007733. doi: 10.1002/brb3.733 PMID: 28729939

Lao Y, Nguyen B, Tsao S, Gajawelli N, Law M, Chui H, Weiner M, Wang Y, Leporé N, “A T1 and DTI fused 3D corpus callosum analysis in MCI subjects with high and low cardiovascular risk profile.“, Neuroimage Clinical 2016 Dec 28;14:298-307. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2016.12.027. eCollection 2017. PMID: 28210541

Adam TC, Tsao S, Page KA, Hu H, Hasson RE, Goran MI.,”  Insulin sensitivity and brain reward activation in overweight Hispanic girls: a pilot study.“, Pediatric Obesity, 2015 doi: 10.1111/j.2047-6310.2013.00210.x PMID: 24357646 

Gajawelli N, Lao Y, Apuzzo ML, Romano R, Liu C,Tsao S, Hwang D, Wilkins B, Leporé N, Law M., ” Neuroimaging Changes in the Brain in Contact versus Noncontact Sport Athletes Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging“, World neurosurgery, 80(6):824–828, 2013. PMID: 24120614

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

OHBM 2015, Honolulu, HI, USA

[Poster# 3668] Cortical Surface-based Mapping of Maturation-related MR Tissue Intensity Changes in Preterm Neonates

Sinchai Tsao, Averi Kitsch, Mengyuan Liu, Sharmishtaa Seshamani, Steven Miller, Vann Chau, Ken Poskitt, Colin Studholme

 

[Poster# 4068] The progression of regional cortical folding in preterm brains without MRI visible injury

Averi Kitsch, Sinchai Tsao, Mengyuan Liu, Steven Miller, Vann Chau, Ruth Grunau, Anne Synnes, Colin Studholme

 

RSNA 2014, Chicago, IL, USA

[Scientific Paper VSNR51-08] The DTI Challenge Initiative on the Standardized Evaluation of DTI Tractography for Neurosurgical Planning

Pujol, S, Golby, A, Wells, W, Pierpaoli, C, Chauvin, L, Mamata, H, Gerig, G, Styner, M, Norton, I, Gouttard, S, Brun, C, Commowick, O, Cheng, G, Girard, G, Moscato, A, Goubran, M, Li, Y, Khan, A, Lecoeur, J, Guler, R, Klein, J, Matsui, J, Masutani, Y, Pathak, S, Neher, P, Salehian, H, Stamm, A, Tamura, M, Shi, W, Tristan, A, Tsao, S, Veni, G, Westin, C, Kajita, Y, Chen, X, Muragaki, Y, Nabavi, A, Kikinis, R

 

MICCAI 2014, Boston, MA, USA

[DTI Challenge] ICA-based Multi-Fiber Tractography for Brain Tumor Surgical Planning

Niharika Gajawelli, Sinchai Tsao, Mighten Yip, Meng Law, and Natasha Leporé

 

NeuroFutures 2014, Seattle, WA, USA

[Poster] Predicting Temporal Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease using Hippocampus Surface-based Morphometric Features

Sinchai Tsao, Niharika Gajawelli, Jiayu Zhou, Jie Shi, Jieping Ye, Yalin Wang, Natasha Leporé

 

SPIE 2014, San Diego, CA, USA

3D pre- versus post-season comparisons of surface and relative pose of the corpus callosum in contact sport athletes

Yi Lao, Niharika Gajawelli, Lauren Haas, Bryce Wilkins, Darryl Hwang, Sinchai Tsao, Yalin Wang, Meng Law, Natasha Leporé

 

OHBM 2014, Hamburg, Germany

[Poster# 1324] Predicting Temporal Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease using Hippocampus Surface-based Features

Sinchai Tsao, Niharika Gajawelli, Jiayu Zhou, Jie Shi, Jieping Ye, Yalin Wang, Natasha Leporé

 

OHBM 2013, Seattle, WA, USA

[Poster# 1271] Isolating ApoE-ε4 Related White Matter Damage using Diffusion MR and Clinical Scores

Sinchai Tsao, Darryl Hwang, Niharika Gajawelli, Stephen Kriger, Natasha Lepore, Meng Law, Helena Chui, Michael Weiner

[POSTER(PDF)]

[Poster# 3868] TractRender: A Customization Platform for Diffusion Tensor Tractography Visualization

Darryl Hwang, Sinchai Tsao, Bryce Wilkins, NiharikaGajawelli, Meng Law, Natasha Lepore

[POSTER(PDF)]

 

MICCAI 2013, Nagoya, Japan

[DTI Challenge] ICA-based Multi-Fiber DWI Tractography in Neurosurgical Planning

Sinchai Tsao, Niharika Gajawelli, Peter A. Michels, Darryl Hwang, Yi Lao, Fernando Yepes, Vidya Rajagopalan, Meng Law, Natasha Leporé

[PAPER(PDF)]

[CDMRI Poster] Effect of Data Acquisition and Analysis Method on Fiber Orientation Estimation in Diffusion MRI

Bryce Wilkins, Namgyun Lee, Sinchai Tsao, Vidya Rajagopalan, Meng Law, Natasha Leporé

 

Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Centers 2013 Research Symposium, Irvine, CA, USA

[Poster] Mapping of ApoE-  4 Related White Matter Damage using Diffusion MRI (Updated)

Sinchai Tsao MS, Darryl H. Hwang PhD, Niharika Gajawelli MS, Bryce Wilkins MS, Meng Law MD, Helena C. Chui MD

[POSTER(PDF)]

 

BMES 2012 , Atlanta, GA, USA

P-Th-A- 92

[Poster] Mapping of ApoE-  4 Related White Matter Damage using Diffusion MRI

Sinchai Tsao MS, Darryl H. Hwang PhD, Niharika Gajawelli MS, Bryce Wilkins MS, Meng Law MD, Helena C. Chui MD

[POSTER(PDF)]

 

SPIE Medical Imaging 2012 , San Diego, CA, USA

Paper 8317-10

[Talk by Sinchai Tsao] Application of fMRI to Obesity Research: Differences in Reward Pathway Activation measured with fMRI BOLD during Visual Presentation of High and Low Caloric Foods

Sinchai Tsao MS, Tanja C. Adam PhD, Michael I. Goran PhD, Manbir Singh PhD

Paper 8317-02

[Talk by Sinchai Tsao] Novel MRI Methodology to Detect Human Whole-Brain Connectivity Changes after Ingestion of Fructose or Glucose

Manbir Singh PhD, Bryce Wilkins MS, Sinchai Tsao MS, Kathleen A. Page MD

[CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS]

 

BMES 2011, Hartford, CT, USA

[Talk by Sinchai Tsao] Differences in Appetite-Related Brain Activity with High and Low Calorie Food in Pre-Pubescent Girls

Sinchai Tsao MS, Tanja Adam PhD, Darryl H. Hwang MS, Michael Goran PhD, Manbir Singh PhD

[YOUTUBE]