Peer Reviewed Publications

Journal

1. Sahar Ahmad, Ye Wu, Zhengwang Wu, Kim-Han Thung, Siyuan Liu, Weili Lin, Gang Li, Li Wang, Pew-Thian Yap. Multifaceted atlases of the human brain in its infancy. Nat. Methods. 20: 55-64 (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01703-z 

2. Wenjiao Lyu, Ye Wu, Khoi Minh Huynh, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. A multimodal submillimeter MRI atlas of the human cerebellum. Sci. Rep. 14:5622 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55412-y 

3. Yunzhi Huang, Sahar Ahmad, Luyi Han, Shuai Wang, Zhengwang Wu, Weili Lin, Gang Li, Li Wang, Pew-Thian Yap, Longitudinal prediction of postnatal brain magnetic resonance images via a metamorphic generative adversarial network. Pattern Recognit. 143: 109715 (2023). doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2023.109715 

4. Xiaoyang Chen, Liangqiong Qu, Yifang Xie, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. A paired dataset of T1- and T2-weighted MRI at 3 Tesla and 7 Tesla. Sci. Data. 10: 489. 2023. doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02400-y 

5. Xu Chen, Yunkui Pang, Sahar Ahmad, Trevor Royce, Andrew Wang, Jun Lian, Pew‐Thian Yap. Organ‐aware CBCT enhancement via dual path learning for prostate cancer treatment. Med. Phys. 1-12. 2023. doi.org/10.1002/mp.16752 

6. Gabriel Girard, Jonathan Rafael-Patino, Raphael Truffet, Dogu Baran Aydogan, Nagesh Adluru, Veena A. Nair, Sahar Ahmad, (54/66), Tractography passes the test: results from the diffusion-simulated connectivity (DiSCo) challenge. Neuroimage 120231 (2023). doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120231 

7. Tiantian Xu, Ye Wu, Yoonmi Hong, Sahar Ahmad, Khoi Minh Huynh, Zhixing Wang, Weili-Lin, Wei-Tang Chang, Pew-Thian Yap. Rapid diffusion magnetic resonance imaging using slice-interleaved encoding. Medical Image Anal. 81: 102548 (2022). doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2022.102548 

8. Marisa N. Spann, Jessica L. Wisnowski, HBCD Phase I Scanning Young Populations Working Group, Christopher D. Smyser, FIT’NG*, Brittany Howell, Douglas C. Dean III. The art, science, and secrets of scanning young children. Biol. Psychiatry 93(10): 858-860 (2023). doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.09.025 (*Contributed as organization member)

9. Dongming Wei, Sahar Ahmad, Yuyu Guo, Liyun Chen, Yunzhi Huang, Lei Ma, Zhengwang Wu, Gang Li, Li Wang, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap, Dinggang Shen, Qian Wang, Recurrent tissue-aware network for deformable registration of infant brain MR images. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 41(5): 1219-1229 (2021). doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2021.3137280 

10. Yunzhi Huang, Sahar Ahmad, Jingfan Fan, Dinggang Shen, Pew-Thian Yap, Difficulty-aware hierarchical convolutional neural networks for deformable registration of brain MR images. Medical Image Anal. 67: 101817 (2021). doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2020.101817 

11. Wei-Tang Chang, Stephanie K. Langella, Yichuan Tang, Sahar Ahmad, Han Zhang, Pew-Thian Yap, Kelly S. Giovanello, Weili Lin, Brainwide functional networks associated with anatomically- and functionally-defined hippocampal subfields using ultrahigh-resolution fMRI. Sci Rep 11: 10835 (2021). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90364-7 

12. Dongming Wei, Sahar Ahmad, Jiayu Huo, Pu Huang, Pew-Thian Yap, Zhong Xue, Jianqi Sun, Wentao Li, Dinggang Shen, Qian Wang, SLIR: Synthesis, localization, inpainting, and registration for image-guided thermal ablation of liver tumors. Medical Image Anal. 65: 101763 (2020). doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2020.101763 

13. Xuhua Ren, Sahar Ahmad, Lichi Zhang, Lei Xiang, Dong Nie, Fan Yang, Qian Wang, Dinggang Shen, Task decomposition and synchronization for semantic biomedical image segmentation. IEEE Trans. Image Proc. 29: 7497-7510 (2020). doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2020.3003735 

14. Sahar Ahmad, Zhengwang Wu, Gang Li, Li Wang, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap, Dinggang Shen, Surface-constrained volumetric registration for the early developing brain. Medical Image Anal. 58: 101540  (2019). doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2019.101540 

15. Sahar Ahmad, Jingfan Fan, Pei Dong, Xiaohuan Cao, Pew-Thian Yap, Dinggang Shen, Deep learning deformation initialization for rapid groupwise registration of inhomogeneous image populations. Front. Neuroinform. 13: 34 (2019). doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2019.00034 

16. Xuhua Ren, Tingting Li, Xiujun Yang, Shuai Wang, Sahar Ahmad, Lei Xiang, Shaun Richard Stone, Lihong Li, Yiqiang Zhan, Dinggang Shen, Qian Wang, Regression convolutional neural network for automated pediatric bone age assessment from hand radiograph. IEEE J. Biomed. Health Informatics 23(5): 2030-2038 (2019). doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2018.2876916 

17. Zhenyu Tang, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap, Dinggang Shen, Multi-atlas segmentation of MR tumor brain images using low-rank based image recovery. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 37(10): 2224-2235 (2018). doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2018.2824243 

18. Sahar Ahmad*, Muhammad Faisal Khan, 3D non-rigid image registration with inverse consistency constraint on elastodynamics wave equation. SIViP 12(2): 239-246 (2018). doi.org/10.1007/s11760-017-1151-2 (*corresponding author)

19. Sahar Ahmad*, Muhammad Faisal Khan, Multimodal non-rigid image registration based on elastodynamics. Vis. Comput. 34(1): 21-27 (2018). doi.org/10.1007/s00371-016-1307-z (*corresponding author)

20. Sahar Ahmad*, Muhammad Faisal Khan, Dynamic elasticity model for inter-subject non-rigid registration of 3D MRI brain scans. Biomed. Signal Process. Control. 33: 346-357 (2017). doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2016.12.016 (*corresponding author)

21. Attiq Ahmad, Sahar Ahmad, Hasnat Khurshid, M. Mohsin Riaz, Abdul Ghafoor, Tahir Zaidi, Fusion of multi-focus images with registration inaccuracies. SIViP 11(3): 463-470 (2017). doi.org/10.1007/s11760-016-0982-6 

22. Sahar Ahmad*, Muhammad Faisal Khan, Deformable image registration based on elastodynamics. Mach. Vis. Appl. 26(5): 689-710 (2015). doi.org/10.1007/s00138-015-0690-1 (*corresponding author)

23. Sahar Ahmad*, Muhammad Faisal Khan, Topology preserving non-rigid image registration using time-varying elasticity model for MRI brain volumes. Comp. in Bio. and Med. 67: 21-28 (2015). doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2015.09.022 (*corresponding author)

Conference --- Full-Length Papers

1. Junjie Zhao, Siyuan Liu, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap, MeshDeform: Surface reconstruction of subcortical structures via human brain MRI. Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI) 2023.

2. Khoi Minh Huynh, Ye Wu, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. Microstructure fingerprinting for heterogeneously oriented tissue microenvironments. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI). Canada. 2023. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43993-3_13 

3. Ye Wu, Xiaoming Liu, Xinyuan Zhang, Khoi Minh Huynh, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. Relaxation-diffusion spectrum imaging for probing tissue microarchitecture. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI). Canada. 2023. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43993-3_15 

4. Xiaoyang Chen, Junjie Zhao, Siyuan Liu, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. SurfFlow: A flow-based approach for rapid and accurate cortical surface reconstruction from infant brain MRI. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI). Canada. 2023. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43993-3_37 

5. Cheng Che Tsai, Xiaoyang Chen, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. Robust unsupervised super-resolution of infant MRI via dual-modal deep image prior. International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI@MICCAI). Canada. 2023.

6. Sahar Ahmad, Fang Nan, Ye Wu, Zhengwang Wu, Weili Lin, Li Wang, Gang Li, Di Wu, Pew-Thian Yap, Harmonization of multi-site cortical data across the human lifespan. International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI@MICCAI) 2022. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21014-3_23 

7. Sahar Ahmad, Ye Wu, Pew-Thian Yap, Surface guided image fusion for preserving cortical details in human brain templates. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2021: 390-399. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87234-2_37 

8. Ye Wu, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap, Highly reproducible whole brain parcellation in individuals via voxel annotation with fiber clusters. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2021: 477-486. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87234-2_75 

9. Ye Wu, Yoonmi Hong, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap, Active cortex tractography. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2021: 467-476. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87234-2_44 

10. Yoonmi Hong, Sahar Ahmad, Ye Wu, Siyuan Liu, Pew-Thian Yap, Vox2Surf: Implicit surface reconstruction from volumetric data. International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI@MICCAI) 2021: 644-653. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87589-3_66 

11. Hoyt Patrick Taylor IV, Sahar Ahmad, Ye Wu, Khoi Minh Huynh, Zhen Zhou, Zhengwang Wu, Weili Lin, Li Wang, Gang Li, Han Zhang, Pew-Thian Yap, Longitudinal parcellation of the infant cortex using multi-modal connectome harmonics. Computational Diffusion MRI (CDMRI@MICCAI) 2021: 251-261. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73018-5_20 

12. Sahar Ahmad, Ye Wu, Khoi Minh Huynh, Kim-Han Thung, Weili Lin, Dinggang Shen, Pew-Thian Yap, and the UNC/UMN Baby Connectome Project Consortium, Fast correction of eddy-current and susceptibility-induced distortions using rotation-invariant contrasts. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2020: 34-43. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59713-9_4 

13. Ye Wu, Yoonmi Hong, Sahar Ahmad, Weili Lin, Dinggang Shen, Pew-Thian Yap, and the UNC/UMN Baby Connectome Project Consortium, Tract dictionary learning for fast and robust recognition of fiber bundles. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2020: 251-259. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59728-3_25 

14. Ye Wu, Yoonmi Hong, Sahar Ahmad, Wei-Tang Chang, Weili Lin, Dinggang Shen, Pew-Thian Yap, Globally optimized super-resolution of diffusion MRI data via fiber continuity. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2020: 260-269. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59728-3_26 

15. Khoi Minh Huynh, Ye Wu, Kim-Han Thung, Sahar Ahmad, Hoyt Patrick Taylor IV, Dinggang Shen, Pew-Thian Yap, Characterizing intra-soma diffusion with spherical mean spectrum imaging. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2020: 354-363. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59728-3_35 

16. Sahar Ahmad, Zhengwang Wu, Gang Li, Li Wang, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap, Dinggang Shen, and the UNC/UMN Baby Connectome Project Consortium, Surface-volume consistent construction of longitudinal atlases for the early developing brain. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2019: 815-822. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32245-8_90 

17. Dongming Wei, Sahar Ahmad, Zhengwang Wu, Xiaohuan Cao, Xuhua Ren, Gang Li, Dinggang Shen, Qian Wang, Morphological simplification of brain MR images by deep learning for facilitating deformable registration. International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI@MICCAI) 2019: 203-211. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32692-0_24 

18. Dongming Wei, Sahar Ahmad, Jiayu Huo, Wen Peng, Yunhao Ge, Zhong Xue, Pew-Thian Yap, Wentao Li, Dinggang Shen, Qian Wang, Synthesis and inpainting-based MR-CT registration for image-guided thermal ablation of liver tumors. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2019: 512-520. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32254-0_57 

19. Miaoyun Zhao, Li Wang, Jiawei Chen, Dong Nie, Yulai Cong, Sahar Ahmad, Angela Ho, Peng Yuan, Steve H Fung, Hannah H Deng, James Xia, Dinggang Shen, Craniomaxillofacial bony structures segmentation from MRI with deep-supervision adversarial learning. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2018: 720-727. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00937-3_82 

20. Sahar Ahmad, Muhammad Faisal Khan, Non rigid image registration by modeling deformations as elastic waves. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2014: 3577-3581. doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2014.7025726 

21. Sahar Ahmad, Syed Sohaib Ali, Muhammad Faisal Khan, A comparative analysis of non rigid registration methods in atlas-based segmentation of subcortical structures. International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI) 2012: 126-130. doi.org/10.1109/BMEI.2012.6513086 

22. Sahar Ahmad, Anam Azam, Madiha Agha, Nida Maqbool, Adnan Rashdi, Muhammad Faisal Khan, Segmentation of diploë in a T1 weighted 3D MR image of human head. International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI) 2011: 486-490. doi.org/10.1109/BMEI.2011.6098262 

Conference --- Abstracts

1. Sahar Ahmad, Siyuan Liu, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap. IBAv2.0: Brain atlases charting myelination from infancy to early childhood. FIT'NG 2024.

2. Khoi Minh Huynh, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. Cell radius and membrane permeability in the developing brain. ISMRM 2024.

3. Xiaoyang Chen, Junjie Zhao, Siyuan Liu, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. Rapid reconstruction of infant cortical surfaces with spherical topology. ISMRM 2024.

4. Kim-Han Thung, Wenjiao Lyu, Li Wang, Weili Lin, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. Early development of brain functional networks. OHBM 2024.

5. Wenjiao Lyu, Kim-Han Thung, Li Wang, Weili Lin, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. Cerebello-cortical connectivity during early brain development. OHBM 2024.

6. Sahar Ahmad, Xiaoyang Chen, Wenjiao Lyu, Jinjian Wu, Yifan Li, Yicheng Zou, Kim-Han Thung, Siyuan Liu, Pew-Thian Yap. NeuroVerse: Neuroimage processing tools across a century of life. ISMRM 2023. (Oral Presentation)

7. Sahar Ahmad, Ye Wu, Khoi Minh Huynh, Kim-Han Thung, Siyuan Liu, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap. Development of deep and superficial white matter tracts from infancy through early childhood. OHBM 2023.

8. Khoi Minh Huynh, Sahar Ahmad, Kim-Han Thung, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap. Longitudinal atlases of cortical and subcortical tissue microstructure in the early developing brain. OHBM 2023. (Oral Presentation)

9. Guoshi Li, Hoyt Patrick Taylor, Ye Wu, Sahar Ahmad, Kim-Han Thung, Zhengwang Wu, Gang Li, Li Wang, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap. Effective connectome over the human lifespan. OHBM 2023. (Oral Presentation)

10. Kim-Han Thung, Wenjiao Lyu, Li Wang, Weili Lin, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. Brain functional atlases of children from birth to five. OHBM 2023.

11. Wenjiao Lyu, Ye Wu, K hoi Minh Huynh, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. A multimodal atlas of the human cerebellum at 760 micrometer resolution. ISMRM 2023.

12. Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. Subcortical brain segmentation across the human lifespan. Neuroscience. USA. 2023. 

13. Khoi Minh Huynh, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. Early postnatal development of tissue microstructure in the human cerebellum. Neuroscience. USA. 2023.

14. Wenjiao Lyu, Kim-Han Thung, Li Wang, Weili Lin, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. Emergence of fronto-cerebellar connectivity during infancy. Neuroscience. USA. 2023.

15. Guoshi Li, Hoyt Patrick Taylor, Kim-Han Thung, Zhengwang Wu, Gang Li, Li Wang, Weili Lin, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. Development of effective connectome from infancy to adolescence. Neuroscience. USA. 2023.

16. Sahar Ahmad, Khoi Minh Huynh, Hoyt Patrick Taylor, Ye Wu, Zhengwang Wu, Weili Lin, Li Wang, Gang Li, Pew-Thian Yap. Multimodal feature gradients of the cerebral cortex across the lifespan. Neuroscience 2022.

17. Khoi Minh Huynh, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. Lifespan cortical microstructure development of the human brain. Neuroscience 2022.

18. Guoshi Li, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap. Charting excitation-inhibition balance over the human lifespan. Neuroscience 2022.

19. Sahar Ahmad, Ye Wu, Zhengwang Wu, Weili Lin, Li Wang, Gang Li, Pew-Thian Yap, Growth charts for regional cortical thickness across the lifespan. OHBM 2022.

20. Hoyt Patrick Taylor IV, Sahar Ahmad, Kim-Han Thung, Zhengwang Wu, Weili Lin, Li Wang, Gang Li, Pew-Thian Yap, Gradients of functional connectivity across the human lifespan. OHBM 2022.

21. Maryam Ghanbari, Guoshi Li, Hoyt Patrick Taylor IV, Sahar Ahmad, Kim-Han Thung, Zhengwang Wu, Gang Li, Li Wang, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap, Brain network redundancy across the human lifespan. OHBM 2022.

22. Ye Wu, Sahar Ahmad, Wenjiao Lyu, Pew-Thian Yap, Whole brain parcellation over the human lifespan. OHBM 2022.

23. Ye Wu, Sahar Ahmad, Wenjiao Lyu, Pew-Thian Yap, Superficial white matter tract atlases across the human lifespan. OHBM 2022.

24. Guoshi Li, Hoyt Patrick Taylor IV, Ye Wu, Sahar Ahmad, Kim-Han Thung, Zhengwang Wu, Gang Li, Li Wang, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap, Cortical hierarchy in the infant brain revealed by a large-scale neural circuit model. OHBM 2022.

25. Khoi Minh Huynh, Sahar Ahmad, Kim-Han Thung, Zhengwang Wu, Weili Lin, Li Wang, Gang Li, Pew-Thian Yap, Evolution of cortical microstructure across the human lifespan. OHBM 2022.

26. Xiaoyang Chen, Sahar Ahmad, Yicheng Zou, Jinjian Wu, Wenjiao Lyu, Ye Wu, Pew-Thian Yap, MRI brain tissue segmentation across the human lifespan. OHBM 2022.

27. Sahar Ahmad, Zhengwang Wu, Weili Lin, Gang Li, Li Wang, Pew-Thian Yap, Surface-volume registration produces atlases more realistic than either surface or volume registration. ISMRM 2022. (Oral Power Pitch)

28. Sahar Ahmad, Fang Nan, Ye Wu, Zhengwang Wu, Weili Lin, Li Wang, Gang Li, Di Wu, Pew-Thian Yap, Harmonization of cortical thickness measurements throughout the human lifespan. ISMRM 2022. (Oral Power Pitch)

29. Ye Wu, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap, Intravoxel architecture atlases (IAA) across the human lifespan. ISMRM 2022. (Oral Power Pitch)

30. Ye Wu, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap, Subcortical parcellation of the human brain via automated voxel annotation with fiber clusters. ISMRM 2022. (Oral Power Pitch)

31. Gabriel Girard, Jonathen Rafael-Patino, Raphael Truffet, Dogu Baran Aydogan, Nagesh Adluru, Veena A. Nair, Sahar Ahmad, (56/64), Structural connectivity estimates are accurate: the outcome of diffusion-simulated connectivity (DiSCo) challenge. ISMRM 2022. 

32. Sahar Ahmad, Ye Wu, Zhengwang Wu, Weili Lin, Li Wang, Gang Li, Pew-Thian Yap, Human brain surface-volume atlases of newborns to centenarians. OHBM 2021.

33. Ye Wu, Sahar Ahmad, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap, White matter tract atlases of a century of human life. OHBM 2021.

34. Maryam Ghanbari, Guoshi Li, Hoyt Patrick Taylor, Sahar Ahmad, Zhengwang Wu, Li Wang, Gang Li, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap, Resilience of the infant brain. OHBM 2021.

35. Guoshi Li, Hoyt Patrick Taylor IV, Ye Wu, Sahar Ahmad, Zhengwang Wu, Li Wang, Gang Li, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap, Excitation-inhibition balance in the infant brain. OHBM 2021.

36. Hoyt Patrick Taylor, Sahar Ahmad, Zhengwang Wu, Weili Lin, Li Wang, Gang Li, Pew-Thian Yap, Evolution of functional connectome harmonics during infancy. OHBM 2021.

37. Ye Wu, Sahar Ahmad, Khoi Minh Huynh, Siyuan Liu, Kim-Han Thung, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap, An automated processing pipeline for diffusion MRI in the baby connectome project. ISMRM 2021.

38. Ye Wu, Sahar Ahmad, Lei Ma, Erkun Yang, Pew-Thian Yap, Subsampling diffusion gradients via Poisson sphere elimination. ISMRM 2021.

39. Khoi Minh Huynh, Ye Wu, Kim-Han Thung, Sahar Ahmad, Hoyt Patrick Taylor IV, Weili Lin, Dinggang Shen, Pew-Thian Yap, Quantifying intra-soma diffusion properties via spherical mean spectrum imaging. ISMRM 2020.

40. Hoyt Patrick Taylor, Sahar Ahmad, Ye Wu, Khoi Huynh, Zhen Zhou, Zhengwang Wu, Gang Li, Weili Lin, Li Wang, Dinggang Shen, Han Zhang, Pew-Thian Yap, Iterative longitudinal infant cortical parcellation using multi-modal connectome harmonics. OHBM 2020.

41. Khoi Minh Huynh, Sahar Ahmad, Ye Wu, Kim-Han Thung, Zhengwang Wu, Weili Lin, Han Zhang, Li Wang, Gang Li, Pew-Thian Yap, Correlation of myelin content and neurite density in the early developing human cortex. OHBM 2020.

42. Ye Wu, Yoonmi Hong, Sahar Ahmad, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap, and the UNC/UMN Baby Connectome Project Consortium, White matter tract atlases of the baby brain. OHBM 2020.

43. Sahar Ahmad, Zhengwang Wu, Gang Li, Li Wang, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap, Dinggang Shen, Longitudinal surface-volume consistent infant brain atlases. 105th RSNA Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, Dec. 1-6, 2019.

44. Sahar Ahmad, Zhengwang Wu, Gang Li, Li Wang, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap, Dinggang Shen, A surface-constrained dynamic elasticity model for deformable registration of infant brain MRI. ISMRM 2019.

45. Sahar Ahmad, Zhengwang Wu, Gang Li, Li Wang, Weili Lin, Pew-Thian Yap, Dinggang Shen, Construction of volume-surface consistent templates for infant brain MRI. OHBM 2019.

46. Dongming Wei, Sahar Ahmad, Pu Huang, Pew-Thian Yap, Zhong Xue, Qian Wang, Dinggang Shen, Learning-based MR-CT registration for guiding thermal ablation of liver tumors. 105th RSNA Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, Dec. 1-6, 2019.

Book Chapter

1. Xiaohuan Cao, Jingfan Fan, Pei Dong, Sahar Ahmad, Pew-Thian Yap, Dinggang Shen, Image registration using machine and deep learning. Handbook of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, 319 – 342 (2020). doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-816176-0.00019-3