Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2026) · Toronto, Canada
Gradient-informed structural prior that dynamically adjusts kernel geometry per-voxel for high b-value diffusion MRI in oncology. Leverages local tissue anisotropy to preserve sharp tumor boundaries whilst aggressively suppressing noise. 18% SNR gain with 96% tissue boundary preservation vs. fixed-size MPPCA baselines on HCP data at b-values of 5000–10000 s/mm².
VSS Tejaswi Abburi, Ananya Singhal, Saurabh J. Shigwan, Nitin Kumar
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2026) · London, UK
Novel GNN integrating ARMA spectral filtering with reconstruction-driven regularisation — first approach to jointly address over-smoothing and over-squashing in sparse-label neuroimaging graphs. Represents entire cohorts as connected graphs where nodes encode neuroanatomical features and edges capture inter-subject similarity. 98.3% accuracy CN vs. MCI, 99.7% CN vs. AD on ADNI dataset (>3% above GCN/GAT baselines).
@inproceedings{sesha2026isbi,
title = {ARMARecon: ARMA Convolutional Filter Based GNN for Neurodegenerative Dementia Classification},
author = {Abburi, VSS Tejaswi and Singhal, Ananya and Shigwan, Saurabh J. and Kumar, Nitin},
booktitle = {ISBI 2026}, address = {London, UK}, year = {2026}
}
Abhishek Tiwari, Ananya Singhal, Saurabh J. Shigwan, Rajeev Kumar Singh
BioImage Computing Workshop, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023) · Paris, France
Swin-Transformer architecture for quantitative diffusion tensor imaging maintaining diagnostic accuracy with 50%+ fewer gradient directions (5–21 vs. standard 41). Voxel-wise TBSS analysis maps disease-specific white matter degradation for tract-level FTD classification without full acquisition. Custom loss function enforces positive-definiteness and biophysical coherence in diffusion tensor estimates.
@inproceedings{tiwari2023ftd,
title = {Deep Learning Framework using Sparse Diffusion MRI for Diagnosis of Frontotemporal Dementia},
author = {Tiwari, Abhishek and Singhal, Ananya and Shigwan, Saurabh J. and Singh, Rajeev Kumar},
booktitle = {BioImage Computing Workshop, ICCV 2023}, address = {Paris, France}, year = {2023}
}
Abhishek Tiwari, Ananya Singhal, Saurabh J. Shigwan, Rajeev Kumar Singh
Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2023) · Istanbul, Turkey
Swin-Transformer framework for estimating FA, AxD, and MD diffusion tensor measurements using only 5 and 21 gradient directions vs. the standard 41. Outperforms linear least squares and Transformer-DTI baselines while reducing scanning time by over half. Validated on the ADNI dataset with TBSS spatial statistics analysis of white matter tracts.
@inproceedings{tiwari2023acml,
title = {Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer through Swin-Transformer-Based DL Framework using Sparse Diffusion Measures},
author = {Tiwari, Abhishek and Singhal, Ananya and Shigwan, Saurabh J. and Singh, Rajeev Kumar},
booktitle = {Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML)}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, year = {2023}
}