@conference {937, title = {Gray matter cortical changes in patients with persistent headache after COVID-19 infection: an exploratory study}, booktitle = {International Headache Congress 2021}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, publisher = {International Headache Society \& European Headache Federation}, organization = {International Headache Society \& European Headache Federation}, address = {Virtual Congress}, abstract = {

Objective: To evaluate gray matter alterations in patients with persistent headache after COVID-19 resolution.
Methods: Exploratory case-control study. Highresolution 3D brain T1-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging data were acquired in patients with persistent
headache after COVID-19 infection and healthy controls (HC). FreeSurfer (version 6.0) was employed to segment the T1-weighted images and extract the mean values of the cortical curvature (CC) and thickness (CT), surface area (SA) and gray matter volume (GMV) of 68 cortical regions. GMV comparisons were adjusted for intracranial volume. Significant results were considered with p \< 0.05 (False Discovery Rate corrected).
Results: Ten patients with persistent headache after COVID-19 (mean age: 53.8 +- 7.8 years; nine women) and 10 HC balanced for age and sex (mean age: 53.1 +- 7.0 years; nine women) were included in the study. Significant higher mean SA and GMV values were found in patients with persistent headache compared to HC in the bilateral medial orbitofrontal cortex, left rostral middle frontal gyrus, and right pars opercularis and superior frontal gyrus. In the patients, significant higher GMV in the right caudal anterior cingulate gyrus and SA values in five temporal, frontal and parietal regions were observed. No CC or CT changes were found.
Conclusions: Persistent headache after COVID-19 infection is related to gray matter cortical changes defined by higher GMV and SA values mainly localized in frontal regions.

}, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/03331024211034005}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rodr{\'\i}guez, Margarita and Moro, Ra{\'u}l and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @article {892, title = {Gray Matter Structural Alterations in Chronic and Episodic Migraine: A Morphometric Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study}, journal = {Pain Medicine}, volume = {21}, year = {2020}, pages = {2997-3011}, abstract = {

This study evaluates different parameters describing the gray matter structure to analyze differences between healthy controls, patients with episodic migraine, and patients with chronic migraine.Cohort study.Spanish community.Fifty-two healthy controls, 57 episodic migraine patients, and 57 chronic migraine patients were included in the study and underwent T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging acquisition.Eighty-four cortical and subcortical gray matter regions were extracted, and gray matter volume, cortical curvature, thickness, and surface area values were computed (where applicable). Correlation analysis between clinical features and structural parameters was performed.Statistically significant differences were found between all three groups, generally consisting of increases in cortical curvature and decreases in gray matter volume, cortical thickness, and surface area in migraineurs with respect to healthy controls. Furthermore, differences were also found between chronic and episodic migraine. Significant correlations were found between duration of migraine history and several structural parameters.Migraine is associated with structural alterations in widespread gray matter regions of the brain. Moreover, the results suggest that the pattern of differences between healthy controls and episodic migraine patients is qualitatively different from that occurring between episodic and chronic migraine patients.

}, issn = {1526-2375}, doi = {10.1093/pm/pnaa271}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnaa271}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Rodr{\'\i}guez, Margarita and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @conference {700, title = {Groupwise Non-Rigid Registration on Multiparametric Abdominal DWI Acquisitions for Robust ADC Estimation: Comparison with Pairwise Approaches and Different Multimodal Metrics}, booktitle = {International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI2017)}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, address = {Melbourne, Australia}, abstract = {

Registration of diffusion weighted datasets remains a challenging\ task in the process of quantifying diffusion indexes.\ Respiratory and cardiac motion, as well as echo-planar characteristic\ geometric distortions, may greatly limit accuracy on\ parameter estimation, specially for the liver. This work proposes\ a methodology for the non-rigid registration of multiparametric\ abdominal diffusion weighted imaging by using\ different well-known metrics under the groupwise paradigm.\ A three-stage validation of the methodology is carried out on\ a computational diffusion phantom, a watery solution phantom\ and a set of voluntary patients. Diffusion estimation\ accuracy has been directly calculated on the computational\ phantom and indirectly by means of a residual analysis on\ the real data. On the other hand, effectiveness in distortion\ correction has been measured on the phantom. Results have\ shown statistical significant improvements compared to pairwise\ registration being able to cope with elastic deformations.

}, author = {Santiago Sanz-Est{\'e}banez and {\'O}scar Pe{\~n}a-Nogales and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @article {de2013geometrical, title = {Geometrical constraints for robust tractography selection}, journal = {NeuroImage}, volume = {81}, year = {2013}, pages = {26{\textendash}48}, publisher = {Academic Press}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carl-Fredik Westin and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @article {de2011gaussian, title = {Gaussian mixtures on tensor fields for segmentation: Applications to medical imaging}, journal = {Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics}, volume = {35}, number = {1}, year = {2011}, pages = {16{\textendash}30}, publisher = {Elsevier}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carl-Fredik Westin and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @proceedings {cordero2011groupwise, title = {Groupwise myocardial alignment in magnetic resonance perfusion sequences}, year = {2011}, pages = {437{\textendash}440}, author = {Lucilio Cordero-Grande and S. Merino-Caviedes and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Marcos Martin-Fernandez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @proceedings {luis2007general, title = {General Medical Image Computing{\textendash}I-Mixtures of Gaussians on Tensor Fields for DT-MRI Segmentation}, volume = {4791}, year = {2007}, pages = {319{\textendash}326}, publisher = {Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1973-}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} }