Selected Publications


Santini F, Wasserthal J, Agosti A, Deligianni X, Keene KR, Kan HE, Sommer S, Stuprich C, Wang F, Weidensteiner C, Manco G, Paoletti M, Mazzoli V, Desai A, Pichiecchio A. Deep Anatomical Federated Network (Dafne): an open client/server framework for the continuous collaborative improvement of deep-learning-based medical image segmentation. 2023 doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2302.06352.

Wang F, Fang S, Li J, Yuan L, Hou B, Zhu J, Jiao Y, Liu Z, Qian M, Santini F, Wang Q, Chen L, Feng F. Correlation analysis of quantitative MRI measurements of thigh muscles with histopathology in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy. Eur Radiol Exp 2023;7:51 doi: 10.1186/s41747-023-00350-z.

Wang F, Zhou S, Hou B, Santini F, Yuan L, Guo Y, Zhu J, Hilbert T, Kober T, Zhang Y, Wang Q, Zhao Y, Jin Z. Assessment of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy using a deep learning method for muscle T2 mapping segmentation. Eur Radiol 2023;33:2350–2357 doi: 10.1007/s00330-022-09254-9.

Weidensteiner C, Madoerin P, et al., Quantification and monitoring of the effect of botulinum toxin A on paretic calf muscles of children with cerebral palsy with MRI: a preliminary study, Frontiers in Neurology 2021, doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.630435

Santini F, Deligianni X, Paoletti M, et al., Fast open-source toolkit for water T2 mapping in the presence of fat from multi-echo spin-echo acquisitions for muscle MRI, Frontiers in Neurology 2021, doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.630387.

Akinci D’Antonoli T, Santini F, Deligianni X, et al., Combination of Quantitative MRI Fat Fraction and Texture Analysis to Evaluate Spastic Muscles of Children with Cerebral Palsy, Frontiers in Neurology 2021, doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.633808

Deligianni X, Hirschmann A, Place N, Bieri O, Santini F, Dynamic MRI of plantar flexion: A comprehensive repeatability study of electrical stimulation-gated muscle contraction standardized on evoked forcePLoS One 2020, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241832

Deligianni X, Klenk C, Place N, et al. Dynamic MR imaging of the skeletal muscle in young and senior volunteers during synchronized minimal neuromuscular electrical stimulation. Magn Reson Mater Phy 2019 doi: 10.1007/s10334-019-00787-7

Santini, F, Bieri, O, Deligianni, X, OpenForce MR: A low-cost open-source MR-compatible force sensor, Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering 2018, 48(4), e21404 

Deligianni X, Pansini M, Garcia M, Hirschmann A, Schmidt-Trucksäss A, Bieri O, Santini F. Synchronous MRI of muscle motion induced by electrical stimulation. Magn Reson Med 2016. doi: 10.1002/mrm.26154.