PUBLICATIONS

PhD Thesis

1. Pepe A., “Statistical Shape Analysis in Neuroimaging: Methods, Challenges, Validation. Applications to the Study of Brain Asymmetries in Schizophrenia”. Tampere University of Technology, Publication num.1201, 2014 (pdf).

Journals

1. Pepe, A., Zhao, L., Tohka, J., Koikkalainen, J., Hietala, J., Ruotsalainen, U. “Automatic statistical shape analysis of cerebral asymmetry in 3D T1-weighted magnetic resonance images at vertex-level: application to neuroleptic-naive schizophrenia”, Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2013, Volume 31, Issue 5, Pages 676-687.

2. Rueda, S., Fathima, S, Knight, C.L., Yaqub, M., Papageorghiou, A. T., Rahmatullah, B,. Foi, A., Maggioni, M., Pepe, A., Tohka, J., Stebbing, R.V. McManigle, J.E., Ciurte, A., Bresson, X., Bach Cuadra, M., Sun, C., Ponomarev, G. V., Gelfand, M. S., Kazanov,M. D., Wang, C.-W., Chen, H.-C., Peng, C.-W., Hung, C.-M., and Noble, J.A.. “Evaluation and Comparison of Current Fetal Ultrasound Image Segmentation Methods for Biometric Measurements: A Grand Challenge”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2014, Volume 33, Number 4, Pages 797-813.

3. Pepe, A., Dinov, I., Tohka, J. “An Automatic Framework for Quantitative Validation of VBM Measures of Anatomical Brain Asymmetry”, Neuroimage 2015, Volume 15, Issue 100, Pages 444-459.

4. Foi, A., Maggioni, M., Pepe, A., Rueda, S., Noble, J.A, Papageorghiou, A. T., Tohka, J. “Difference of Gaussians revolved along elliptical paths for ultrasound fetal head segmentation”, IEEE Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 2014, Volume 38, Issue 8, Pages 774–784.

5. Moradi, E., Pepe, A., Gaser, C., Huttunen, H., Tohka, J. for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. “Semi-supervised learning for early MRI-based Alzheimer’s conversion prediction in MCI subject”, Neuroimage 2015, Volume 104, Pages 398–412.

Conferences

1. Pepe A., Auzias G., De Guio F., Rousseau F., Germanaud D., Mangin J.-F, Girard N., Coulon O., Lefevre J. “Spectral Clustering Based Parcellation of fetal brain MRI”. In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Brooklyn, USA; 04/2015 (link).

2. Auzias G., De Guio F., Pepe A., Rousseau F., Mangin J.-F., Girard N., Lefevre J., Coulon O. “Model-Driven Parameterization of Fetal Cortical Surfaces”. In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Brooklyn, USA; 04/2015 (link).

3. Pepe A.*, Brandolini L.*, Piastra M., Koikkalainen J., Hietala J., and Tohka J. "Simplified Reeb Graph as Effective Shape Descriptor for the Striatum" in, R.R. Paulsen and J.A. Levine, editors, MICCAI 2012 Mesh Processing in Medical Image Analysis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7599, pp. 134 - 146, October2012, Nice, France (pdf) . * Equal contribution.

4. Foi, A., Maggioni, M., Pepe A., and Tohka, J. "Head contour extraction from fetal ultrasound images by difference of Gaussians revolved along elliptical paths" in proceedings of Challenge US: Biometric Measurements from Fetal Ultrasound Images ISBI 2012, pp. 1 - 3, 2012, May 2012, Barcelona, Spain (pdf).

5. Pepe, A., Tohka. J. “3D bending of surfaces and volumes with an application to brain torque modeling", in 1st International Conference of Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, pp. 411 - 418, February 2012, Algarve, Portugal (abstract, pdf).

6. Pepe, A.., Zhao, L, Tohka, J., Koikkalainen, J., Hietala, J., and Ruotsalainen, U. ”Automatic Statistical Shape Analysis of Local Cerebral Asymmetry in 3D T1-weighted magnetic resonance images” in, R.R. Paulsen and J.A. Levine, editors, Proc. of MICCAI 2011 MeshMed workshop, pp. 127 - 134, September 2011, Toronto, Canada (pdf).

7. Tuna, U., Pepe, A., and Ruotsalainen, U. "Sequential Regularized MLEM Reconstruction Method for Incomplete Sinograms", IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record (MIC2011), October 2011, Valencia, Spain (pdf).