François Rheault

Prix et distinctions

• (2015) Programme de bourses d’excellence pour les courts séjours d’études universitaires à l'extérieur du Québec. Ministère de l'Éducation et de l'Enseignement Supérieur. (Prize / Award).
• Best Presentation Award. Centre d'Excellence en Neurosciences de l'UdeS. (Prize / Award).
• Best Publication Award. Centre d'Excellence en Neurosciences de l'UdeS. (Prize / Award).
• Bourse de valorisation des travaux. Université de Sherbrooke. (Prize / Award).
• Bourse de valorisation des travaux. Université de Sherbrooke. (Prize / Award).
• Prix du public, La Preuve par l'Image. Association Francophone pour le Savoir. (Prize / Award).

Financement

• Grant. (Awarded). Principal Applicant. Reproducible characterization of white matter connectome through diffusion MRI and tractography. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Discovery Grants (individual). 167 500 $. (2023-2029)
• Grant. (Awarded). Principal Applicant. Analyse des défauts de la matière blanche: développement d'outils d’harmonisation et longitudinaux en neuroimagerie. Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Sherbrooke Inc. (CRCHUS) (Sherbrooke, QC). Programme de projets pilotes (PPP). 20 000 $. (2023-2025)
• Scholarship. (Completed). Principal Applicant. Segmentation automatique et analyse de formes des faisceaux de la matière blanche grâce à l'imagerie par résonnance magnétique de diffusion et la tractographie.. Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT). Scholarships – 2nd and 3rd cycle. 40 000 $. (2017-2019)

Publications

Articles de revue

• Newlin, Nancy, Rheault, François, Schilling, Kurt, Landman, Bennett. (2023). Characterizing Streamline Count Invariant Graph Measures of Structural Connectomes. Journal of magnetic resonance imaging N/A N/A. DOI. (Accepted).
• Kanakaraj, Praitayini and Cai, Leon Y and Yao, Tianyuan and Rheault, Francois and Rogers, Baxter P and Anderson, Adam and Schilling, Kurt G and Landman, Bennett A. (2023). Efficient approximate signal reconstruction for correction of gradient nonlinearities in diffusion-weighted imaging. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 102 20--25. (Accepted).
• Mandonnet, Val{\'e}ry and Obaid, Sami and Descoteaux, Maxime and St-Onge, Etienne and Devaux, Bertrand and Lev{\'e}, Charlotte and Froelich, S{\'e}bastien and Rheault, Fran{\c{c}ois and Mandonnet, Emmanuel. (2023). Electrostimulation of the white matter of the posterior insula and medial operculum: perception of vibrations, heat, and pain. Pain (Published).
• Dumais, F{\'e}lix and Legarreta, Jon Haitz and Lemaire, Carl and Poulin, Philippe and Rheault, Fran{\c{c}ois and Petit, Laurent and Barakovic, Muhamed and Magon, Stefano and Descoteaux, Maxime and Jodoin, Pierre-Marc and others. (2023). FIESTA: Autoencoders for accurate fiber segmentation in tractography. NeuroImage (Published).
• Kanakaraj, Praitayini and Cai, Leon Y and Rheault, Francois and Yehe, Fang-Cheng and Rogers, Baxter P and Schilling, Kurt G and Landman, Bennett A. (2023). Mapping the impact of nonlinear gradient fields with noise on diffusion MRI. Magnetic resonance imaging 98 124--131. (Accepted).
• Schilling, Kurt G and Archer, Derek and Yeh, Fang-Cheng and Rheault, Francois and Cai, Leon Y and Shafer, Andrea and Resnick, Susan M and Hohman, Timothy and Jefferson, Angela and Anderson, Adam W and others. (2023). Short superficial white matter and aging: a longitudinal multi-site study of 1293 subjects and 2711 sessions. Aging brain 3 100067. (Published).
• Petit, Laurent and Ali, Kariem Mahdy and Rheault, Fran{\c{c}ois and Bor{\'e}, Arnaud and Cremona, Sandrine and Corsini, Francesco and De Benedictis, Alessandro and Descoteaux, Maxime and Sarubbo, Silvio. (2023). The structural connectivity of the human angular gyrus as revealed by microdissection and diffusion tractography. Brain Structure and Function (Published).
• Girard, Gabriel and Rafael-Pati{\~n}o, Jonathan and Truffet, Rapha{\"e}l and Aydogan, Dogu Baran and Adluru, Nagesh and Nair, Veena A and Prabhakaran, Vivek and Bendlin, Barbara B and Alexander, Andrew L and Bosticardo, Sara and others. (2023). Tractography passes the test: Results from the diffusion-simulated connectivity (disco) challenge. NeuroImage (Published).
• Kurt G Schilling, Jordan A Chad, Maxime Chamberland, Victor Nozais, Francois Rheault, Derek Archer, Muwei Li, Yurui Gao, Leon Cai, Flavio Del’Acqua, Allen Newton, Daniel Moyer, John C Gore, Catherine Lebel, Bennett A Landman. (2023). White matter tract microstructure, macrostructure, and associated cortical gray matter morphology across the lifespan. Imaging Neuroscience (Published).
• Schilling KG , Archer D , Yeh FC , Rheault F , Cai LY , Hansen C , Yang Q , Ramdass K , Shafer AT , Resnick SM , Pechman KR , Gifford KA , Hohman TJ , Jefferson A , Anderson AW , Kang H , Landman BA. (2022). Aging and white matter microstructure and macrostructure: a longitudinal multi-site diffusion MRI study of 1218 participants. Brain structure & function 227 (6), 2111-2125. (Published).
• Roy M , Edde M , Fortier M , Croteau E , Castellano CA , St-Pierre V , Vandenberghe C , Rheault F , Dadar M , Duchesne S , Bocti C , Fulop T , Cunnane SC , Descoteaux M. (2022). A ketogenic intervention improves dorsal attention network functional and structural connectivity in mild cognitive impairment. Neurobiology of aging 115 77-87. (Published).
• Schilling, K; Li, M; Rheault, F; Ding, Z; Anderson, A; Kang, H; Landman, B; Gore, J. (2022). Along-tract quantification of resting-state BOLD hemodynamic response functions in white matter. Brain Structure and Function N/A N/A. (Submitted).
• Hansen CB , Schilling KG , Rheault F , Resnick S , Shafer AT , Beason-Held LL , Landman BA. (2022). Contrastive semi-supervised harmonization of single-shell to multi-shell diffusion MRI. Magnetic resonance imaging N/A N/A. (Published).
• Yang Q , Hansen CB , Cai LY , Rheault F , Lee HH , Bao S , Chandio BQ , Williams O , Resnick SM , Garyfallidis E , Anderson AW , Descoteaux M , Schilling KG , Landman BA. (2022). Learning white matter subject-specific segmentation from structural MRI. Medical physics 49 (4), 2502-2513. (Published).
• Mrah S , Descoteaux M , Wager M , Boré A , Rheault F , Thirion B , Mandonnet E. (2022). Network-level prediction of set-shifting deterioration after lower-grade glioma resection. Journal of neurosurgery N/A 1-9. (Published).
• Schilling KG , Tax CMW , Rheault F , Landman BA , Anderson AW , Descoteaux M , Petit L. (2022). Prevalence of white matter pathways coming into a single white matter voxel orientation: The bottleneck issue in tractography. Human brain mapping 43 (4), 1196-1213. (Published).
• Schilling, K; Archer, D; Yeh, FC Rheault, F; Cai, L; Shafer, A; Resnick, S; Hohman, T; Jefferson, A; Anderson, A; Kang, H; Landman, B. (2022). Short superficial white matter and aging: a longitudinal multi-site study of 1,293 subjects and 2,711 sessions. Brain Structure and Function N/A N/A. DOI. (Published).
• Schilling, K; Archer, D; Rheault, F; Lyu, I; Huo, Y; Cai, L; Bunge, S; Weiner, K; Gore, J; Anderson, A; Landman, B. (2022). Superficial white matter across the lifespan: volume, thickness, change, and relationship with cortical features. Brain Structure and Function N/A N/A. (Submitted).
• Petit, L; Ali, KM; Rheault, F; Bore, A; Corsini, F; De Benedictis, A; Descoteaux, M; Sarubbo, S. (2022). The Structural Connectivity of The Human Angular Gyrus as Revealed by Microdissection and Diffusion Tractography. Brain structure & function N/A N/A. (Published).
• Rheault F , Schilling KG , Obaid S , Begnoche JP , Cutting LE , Descoteaux M , Landman BA , Petit L. (2022). The influence of regions of interest on tractography virtual dissection protocols: general principles to learn and to follow. Brain structure & function 227 (6), 2191-2207. (Published).
• Rheault F , Bayrak RG , Wang X , Schilling KG , Greer JM , Hansen CB , Kerley C , Ramadass K , Remedios LW , Blaber JA , Williams O , Beason-Held LL , Resnick SM , Rogers BP , Landman BA. (2022). TractEM: Evaluation of protocols for deterministic tractography white matter atlas. Magnetic resonance imaging 85 44-56. (Published).
• Poulin, P; Theaud, G; Rheault, F; St-Onge, E; Bore, A; Renauld, E; de Beaumont, L; Guay, S; Jodoin, PM; Descoteaux, M. (2022). TractoInferno: A large-scale, open-source, multi-site database for machine learning dMRI tractography. Nature Scientific Data N/A N/A. (Accepted).
• Rheault F , Schilling KG , Valcourt-Caron A , Théberge A , Poirier C , Grenier G , Guberman GI , Begnoche J , Legarreta JH , Y Cai L , Roy M , Edde M , Caceres MP , Ocampo-Pineda M , Al-Sharif N , Karan P , Bontempi P , Obaid S , Bosticardo S , Schiavi S , Sairanen V , Daducci A , Cutting LE , Petit L , Descoteaux M , Landman BA. (2022). Tractostorm 2: Optimizing tractography dissection reproducibility with segmentation protocol dissemination. Human brain mapping 43 (7), 2134-2147. (Published).
• Wasserman D , Valero-Cabré A , Dali M , Stengel C , Boyer A , Rheault F , Bonnetblanc F , Mandonnet E. (2021). Axono-cortical evoked potentials as a new method of IONM for preserving the motor control network: a first study in three cases. Acta neurochirurgica 163 (4), 919-935. (Published).
• Pichet Binette A , Theaud G , Rheault F , Roy M , Collins DL , Levin J , Mori H , Lee JH , Farlow MR , Schofield P , Chhatwal JP , Masters CL , Benzinger T , Morris J , Bateman R , Breitner JC , Poirier J , Gonneaud J , Descoteaux M , Villeneuve S , DIAN Study Group , PREVENT-AD Research Group. (2021). Bundle-specific associations between white matter microstructure and Aβ and tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer's disease. eLife 10 N/A. (Published).
• Schilling KG , Tax CMW , Rheault F , Hansen C , Yang Q , Yeh FC , Cai L , Anderson AW , Landman BA. (2021). Fiber tractography bundle segmentation depends on scanner effects, vendor effects, acquisition resolution, diffusion sampling scheme, diffusion sensitization, and bundle segmentation workflow. NeuroImage 242 118451. (Published).
• Legarreta JH , Petit L , Rheault F , Theaud G , Lemaire C , Descoteaux M , Jodoin PM. (2021). Filtering in tractography using autoencoders (FINTA). Medical image analysis 72 102126. (Published).
• Ocampo-Pineda M , Schiavi S , Rheault F , Girard G , Petit L , Descoteaux M , Daducci A. (2021). Hierarchical Microstructure Informed Tractography. Brain connectivity 11 (2), 75-88. (Published).
• Cai LY , Yang Q , Kanakaraj P , Nath V , Newton AT , Edmonson HA , Luci J , Conrad BN , Price GR , Hansen CB , Kerley CI , Ramadass K , Yeh FC , Kang H , Garyfallidis E , Descoteaux M , Rheault F , Schilling KG , Landman BA. (2021). MASiVar: Multisite, multiscanner, and multisubject acquisitions for studying variability in diffusion weighted MRI. Magnetic resonance in medicine 86 (6), 3304-3320. (Published).
• Beaudoin AM , Rheault F , Theaud G , Laberge F , Whittingstall K , Lamontagne A , Descoteaux M. (2021). Modern Technology in Multi-Shell Diffusion MRI Reveals Diffuse White Matter Changes in Young Adults With Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. Frontiers in neuroscience 15 665017. (Published).
• Hansen CB , Yang Q , Lyu I , Rheault F , Kerley C , Chandio BQ , Fadnavis S , Williams O , Shafer AT , Resnick SM , Zald DH , Cutting LE , Taylor WD , Boyd B , Garyfallidis E , Anderson AW , Descoteaux M , Landman BA , Schilling KG. (2021). Pandora: 4-D White Matter Bundle Population-Based Atlases Derived from Diffusion MRI Fiber Tractography. Neuroinformatics 19 (3), 447-460. (Published).
• Boyer A , Stengel C , Bonnetblanc F , Dali M , Duffau H , Rheault F , Descoteaux M , Guiraud D , Valero-Cabre A , Mandonnet E. (2021). Patterns of axono-cortical evoked potentials: an electrophysiological signature unique to each white matter functional site?. Acta neurochirurgica 163 (11), 3121-3130. (Published).
• Obaid S , Rheault F , Edde M , Guberman GI , St-Onge E , Sidhu J , Bouthillier A , Daducci A , Ghaziri J , Bojanowski MW , Nguyen DK , Descoteaux M. (2021). Structural Connectivity Alterations in Operculo-Insular Epilepsy. Brain sciences 11 (8), N/A. (Published).
• Schilling KG , Rheault F , Petit L , Hansen CB , Nath V , Yeh FC , Girard G , Barakovic M , Rafael-Patino J , Yu T , Fischi-Gomez E , Pizzolato M , Ocampo-Pineda M , Schiavi S , Canales-Rodríguez EJ , Daducci A , Granziera C , Innocenti G , Thiran JP , Mancini L , Wastling S , Cocozza S , Petracca M , Pontillo G , Mancini M , Vos SB , Vakharia VN , Duncan JS , Melero H , Manzanedo L , Sanz-Morales E , Peña-Melián Á , Calamante F , Attyé A , Cabeen RP , Korobova L , Toga AW , Vijayakumari AA , Parker D , Verma R , Radwan A , Sunaert S , Emsell L , De Luca A , Leemans A , Bajada CJ , Haroon H , Azadbakht H , Chamberland M , Genc S , Tax CMW , Yeh PH , Srikanchana R , Mcknight CD , Yang JY , Chen J , Kelly CE , Yeh CH , Cochereau J , Maller JJ , Welton T , Almairac F , Seunarine KK , Clark CA , Zhang F , Makris N , Golby A , Rathi Y , O'Donnell LJ , Xia Y , Aydogan DB , Shi Y , Fernandes FG , Raemaekers M , Warrington S , Michielse S , Ramírez-Manzanares A , Concha L , Aranda R , Meraz MR. (2021). Tractography dissection variability: What happens when 42 groups dissect 14 white matter bundles on the same dataset?. NeuroImage 243 118502. (Published).
• Mandonnet E , Margulies D , Stengel C , Dali M , Rheault F , Toba MN , Bonnetblanc F , Valero-Cabre A. (2020). "I do not feel my hand where I see it": causal mapping of visuo-proprioceptive integration network in a surgical glioma patient. Acta neurochirurgica 162 (8), 1949-1955. (Published).
• Schilling KG , Petit L , Rheault F , Remedios S , Pierpaoli C , Anderson AW , Landman BA , Descoteaux M. (2020). Brain connections derived from diffusion MRI tractography can be highly anatomically accurate-if we know where white matter pathways start, where they end, and where they do not go. Brain structure & function 225 (8), 2387-2402. (Published).
• Rheault F , Poulin P , Valcourt Caron A , St-Onge E , Descoteaux M. (2020). Common misconceptions, hidden biases and modern challenges of dMRI tractography. Journal of neural engineering 17 (1), 011001. (Published).
• Roy M , Rheault F , Croteau E , Castellano CA , Fortier M , St-Pierre V , Houde JC , Turcotte ÉE , Bocti C , Fulop T , Cunnane SC , Descoteaux M. (2020). Fascicle- and Glucose-Specific Deterioration in White Matter Energy Supply in Alzheimer's Disease. Journal of Alzheimer's disease 76 (3), 863-881. (Published).
• Edde M , Theaud G , Rheault F , Dilharreguy B , Helmer C , Dartigues JF , Amieva H , Allard M , Descoteaux M , Catheline G. (2020). Free water: A marker of age-related modifications of the cingulum white matter and its association with cognitive decline. PloS one 15 (11), e0242696. (Published).
• Mandonnet E , Vincent M , Valero-Cabré A , Facque V , Barberis M , Bonnetblanc F , Rheault F , Volle E , Descoteaux M , Margulies DS. (2020). Network-level causal analysis of set-shifting during trail making test part B: A multimodal analysis of a glioma surgery case. Cortex 132 238-249. (Published).
• Vanderweyen DC , Theaud G , Sidhu J , Rheault F , Sarubbo S , Descoteaux M , Fortin D. (2020). The role of diffusion tractography in refining glial tumor resection. Brain structure & function 225 (4), 1413-1436. (Published).
• Theaud G , Houde JC , Boré A , Rheault F , Morency F , Descoteaux M. (2020). TractoFlow: A robust, efficient and reproducible diffusion MRI pipeline leveraging Nextflow & Singularity. NeuroImage 218 116889. (Published).
• Nath V , Schilling KG , Parvathaneni P , Huo Y , Blaber JA , Hainline AE , Barakovic M , Romascano D , Rafael-Patino J , Frigo M , Girard G , Thiran JP , Daducci A , Rowe M , Rodrigues P , Prčkovska V , Aydogan DB , Sun W , Shi Y , Parker WA , Ould Ismail AA , Verma R , Cabeen RP , Toga AW , Newton AT , Wasserthal J , Neher P , Maier-Hein K , Savini G , Palesi F , Kaden E , Wu Y , He J , Feng Y , Paquette M , Rheault F , Sidhu J , Lebel C , Leemans A , Descoteaux M , Dyrby TB , Kang H , Landman BA. (2020). Tractography reproducibility challenge with empirical data (TraCED): The 2017 ISMRM diffusion study group challenge. Journal of magnetic resonance imaging 51 (1), 234-249. (Published).
• Rheault F , De Benedictis A , Daducci A , Maffei C , Tax CMW , Romascano D , Caverzasi E , Morency FC , Corrivetti F , Pestilli F , Girard G , Theaud G , Zemmoura I , Hau J , Glavin K , Jordan KM , Pomiecko K , Chamberland M , Barakovic M , Goyette N , Poulin P , Chenot Q , Panesar SS , Sarubbo S , Petit L , Descoteaux M. (2020). Tractostorm: The what, why, and how of tractography dissection reproducibility. Human brain mapping 41 (7), 1859-1874. (Published).
• Chenot Q , Tzourio-Mazoyer N , Rheault F , Descoteaux M , Crivello F , Zago L , Mellet E , Jobard G , Joliot M , Mazoyer B , Petit L. (2019). A population-based atlas of the human pyramidal tract in 410 healthy participants. Brain structure & function 224 (2), 599-612. (Published).
• Rheault F , St-Onge E , Sidhu J , Maier-Hein K , Tzourio-Mazoyer N , Petit L , Descoteaux M. (2019). Bundle-specific tractography with incorporated anatomical and orientational priors. NeuroImage 186 382-398. (Published).
• Corrivetti F , de Schotten MT , Poisson I , Froelich S , Descoteaux M , Rheault F , Mandonnet E. (2019). Dissociating motor-speech from lexico-semantic systems in the left frontal lobe: insight from a series of 17 awake intraoperative mappings in glioma patients. Brain structure & function 224 (3), 1151-1165. (Published).
• Mandonnet E , Herbet G , Moritz-Gasser S , Poisson I , Rheault F , Duffau H. (2019). Electrically induced verbal perseveration: A striatal deafferentation model. Neurology 92 (6), e613-e621. (Published).
• Loit MP , Rheault F , Gayat E , Poisson I , Froelich S , Zhi N , Velut S , Mandonnet E. (2019). Hotspots of small strokes in glioma surgery: an overlooked risk?. Acta neurochirurgica 161 (1), 91-98. (Published).
• Schilling KG , Nath V , Hansen C , Parvathaneni P , Blaber J , Gao Y , Neher P , Aydogan DB , Shi Y , Ocampo-Pineda M , Schiavi S , Daducci A , Girard G , Barakovic M , Rafael-Patino J , Romascano D , Rensonnet G , Pizzolato M , Bates A , Fischi E , Thiran JP , Canales-Rodríguez EJ , Huang C , Zhu H , Zhong L , Cabeen R , Toga AW , Rheault F , Theaud G , Houde JC , Sidhu J , Chamberland M , Westin CF , Dyrby TB , Verma R , Rathi Y , Irfanoglu MO , Thomas C , Pierpaoli C , Descoteaux M , Anderson AW , Landman BA. (2019). Limits to anatomical accuracy of diffusion tractography using modern approaches. NeuroImage 185 1-11. (Published).
• Garyfallidis E , Côté MA , Rheault F , Sidhu J , Hau J , Petit L , Fortin D , Cunanne S , Descoteaux M. (2018). Recognition of white matter bundles using local and global streamline-based registration and clustering. NeuroImage 170 283-295. (Published).
• Maier-Hein KH , Neher PF , Houde JC , Côté MA , Garyfallidis E , Zhong J , Chamberland M , Yeh FC , Lin YC , Ji Q , Reddick WE , Glass JO , Chen DQ , Feng Y , Gao C , Wu Y , Ma J , He R , Li Q , Westin CF , Deslauriers-Gauthier S , González JOO , Paquette M , St-Jean S , Girard G , Rheault F , Sidhu J , Tax CMW , Guo F , Mesri HY , Dávid S , Froeling M , Heemskerk AM , Leemans A , Boré A , Pinsard B , Bedetti C , Desrosiers M , Brambati S , Doyon J , Sarica A , Vasta R , Cerasa A , Quattrone A , Yeatman J , Khan AR , Hodges W , Alexander S , Romascano D , Barakovic M , Auría A , Esteban O , Lemkaddem A , Thiran JP , Cetingul HE , Odry BL , Mailhe B , Nadar MS , Pizzagalli F , Prasad G , Villalon-Reina JE , Galvis J , Thompson PM , Requejo FS , Laguna PL , Lacerda LM , Barrett R , Dell'Acqua F , Catani M , Petit L , Caruyer E , Daducci A , Dyrby TB , Holland-Letz T , Hilgetag CC , Stieltjes B , Descoteaux M. (2017). The challenge of mapping the human connectome based on diffusion tractography. Nature communications 8 (1), 1349. (Published).
• Rheault F , Houde JC , Descoteaux M. (2017). Visualization, Interaction and Tractometry: Dealing with Millions of Streamlines from Diffusion MRI Tractography. Frontiers in neuroinformatics 11 42. (Published).

Chapitres de livre

• Rheault, F; Poulin P.; Valcourt Caron, A; St Onge, E; Schilling, K; Dell'Acqua, F; Leemans, A; Descoteaux, M. (2023). Current challenges and opportunities for tractography. Maxime Descoteaux Alexander Leemans Flavio Dell'Acqua. Handbook of tractography (N/A). Netherlands : Elsevier. (Accepted).
• Garyfallidis, E; Coté, MA; Rheault, F; Olivetti, E. (2023). Dissecting White Matter Pathways: AutomaticApproaches. Maxime Descoteaux Alexander Leemans Flavio Dell'Acqua. Handbook of tractography (N/A). Netherlands : Elsevier. (Accepted).
• Dirby, T; Schilling, K; Sarubbo, S; Rheault F; Fieremans E; Rockland K; Neher P; Palombo M; Anderson A. (2023). Validation of Diffusion Tractography: Numerical Simulation & Phantoms. Maxime Descoteaux Alexander Leemans Flavio Dell'Acqua. Handbook of tractography (N/A). Netherlands : Elsevier. (Accepted).

Rapports

• Tianyuan Yao, Francois Rheault, Leon Y Cai, Vishwesh Nath, Zuhayr Asad, Nancy Newlin, Can Cui, Ruining Deng, Karthik Ramadass, Andrea Shafer, Susan Resnick, Kurt Schilling, Bennett A. Landman, Yuankai. (2023). Robust Fiber ODF Estimation Using Deep Constrained Spherical Deconvolution for Diffusion MRI. bioRxiv. 24 p.
• Schilling, Kurt and Li, Muwei and Rheault, Francois and Gao, Yurui and Cai, Leon Y and Zhao, Yu and Xu, Lyuan and Ding, Zhaohua and Anderson, Adam W and Landman, Bennett A and others. (2023). Whole-brain, gray and white matter time-locked functional signal changes with simple tasks and model-free analysis. bioRxiv. 12 p.
• Theaud, G; Houde, JC; Bore, A; Rheault, F; Morency, F; Descoteaux, M. (2020). TractoFlow-ABS (Atlas-Based Segmentation). bioRxiv. 6 p.
• Schilling, K; Li, M; Rheault, F; Ding, Z; Anderson, A; Kang, H; Landman, B; Gore, J. (2018). Bundle-specific fornix reconstruction for dual-tracer PET-tractometry. bioRxiv. 12 p.

Articles de conférence

• Ting Qiu, François Rheault, Jean-Paul Soucy, R. Nathan Spreng, Alexa Pichet Binette, Maxime Descoteaux, Sylvia Villeneuve. (2023). Amyloid and tau pathology are associated with white matter properties in cognitivelyunimpaired older adults at risk of AD dementia. Alzheimer's Association International Conference. (Accepted).
• Laura Vavassori, Erica Nocerino, François Rheault, Paolo Avesani, Silvio Sarubbo, Laurent Petit. (2023). BraDiPho: Merging diffusion tractography with photogrammetric dissection of the human brain. Organization for Human Brain Mapping. (Accepted).
• Etienne St-One, Kurt Schilling, Francois Rheault. (2023). BundleSeg: A versatile, reliable and reproducible approach to white matter bundle segmentation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (In Press).
• Kanakaraj, P; Rheault, F; Cai, L; Newlin, N; Rogers, B; Schilling, K; Landman, B. (2023). Mapping the Impact of Approximate Gradient Nonlinearity Fields Correction on Tractography. SPIE Medical Imaging. (Published).
• Remedios, L; Kerley, C; Cai, L; Rheault, F; Deng, R; Cui, C; Chiron, S; Roland, K; Washington, M; Coburn, L; Wilson, K; Huo, Y; Landman, B. (2023). Predicting Crohn’s disease severity using mixed cell nucleus density from pseudo labels. SPIE Medical Imaging. (Published).
• Ting Qiu, Zhen-Qi Liu, François Rheault, Alex Valcourt Caron, Jon Haitz Legarreta, Frédéric St-Onge, Cherie Strikwerda Brown, Alexa Pichet Binette, R. Nathan Spreng, Maxime Descoteaux, Sylvia Villeneuve. (2023). The Role of White Matter in Cognitive Resilience to AD pathology in cognitivelyunimpaired older adults at risk of AD dementia. Organization for Human Brain Mapping. (Accepted).
• Schilling, K; Li, M; Rheault, F; Gao, Y; Ding, Z; Anderson, A; Kang, H; Landman, B; Gore, J. (2022). Along-tract quantification of the BOLD hemodynamic response function in white matter. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (Accepted).
• Cai, L; Rheault, F; Kerley, Cailey I; Aboud, K; Beason-Held, L; Shafer, A; Resnick, S; Jordan, L; Anderson, A; Schilling, K; Bennett, L. (2022). Joint independent component analysis for hypothesizing spatiotemporal relationships between longitudinal gray and white matter changes in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease. Medical Imaging 2022: Image Processing, 398--407. (Published).
• Wang, Y; Rheault, F; Schilling, K; Beason-Held, L; Shafer, A; Resnick, S; Landman, B. (2022). Longitudinal changes of connectomes and graph theory measures in aging. Medical Imaging 2022: Image Processing, 497--504. (Published).
• Kanakaraj, P; Hansen, C; Rheault, F; Cai, L; Ramadass, K; Rogers, B; Schilling, K; Landman, B. (2022). Mapping the impact of non-linear gradient fields on diffusion MRI tensor estimation. Medical Imaging 2022: Image Processing, 1203203. (Published).
• Cai, L; Tanase, C; Anderson, A; Ramadass, K; Rheault, F; Lee C.; Patel, N; Jones, S; LeStourgeon, L; Mahon, A; Pruthi, S; Gwal, K; Ozturk, A; Kang, H; Glaser, N; Ghetti, S; Jaser, S; Jordan, L; Landman, B. (2022). Multimodal neuroimaging in pediatric type 1 diabetes: a pilot multisite feasibility study of acquisition quality, motion, and variability. Medical Imaging 2022: Image Processing, 993--1002. (Published).
• Schilling, K; Archer, D; Yeh, FC; Rheault, F; Cai, L; Hohman, T; Shafer, A; Resnick, S; Jefferson, A; Anderson, A; Kang, H; Landman, B. (2022). Short superficial U-fiber systems and aging: a longitudinal diffusion MRI study. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (Accepted).
• Girard, G et al. (2022). Structural connectivity estimates are accurate: the outcome of diffusion-simulated connectivity (DiSCo) challenge. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (Accepted).
• Rheault, F; Hayot-Sasson, V; Smith, R; Rorden, C; Tournier, JD; Garyfallidis, E; Yeh, FC; Markiewicz, C; Brett, M; Jeurissen, B; Taylor, P; Aydogan, B; Pisner, D; Koudoro, S; Hayashi, S; Haehn, D; Pieper, S; Bullock, D; Olivetti, E; Houde, JC; Côté, MA; Dell’Acqua, F; Leemans, A; Descoteaux, M; Landman, B; Pestilli, F; Rokem, A. (2022). TRX: A community-oriented tractography file format. Organisation for Human Brain Mapping. (Accepted).
• Ramadass, K; Rheault, F; Cai, L; Remedios, L; D'Archangel, M; Lyu, I; Barquero, L; Newton, A; Cutting, L; Huo, Y; Bennett, L. (2022). Ultra-high-resolution mapping of cortical layers 3T-guided 7T MRI. Medical Imaging 2022: Image Processing, 391--397. (Published).
• Schilling, K; Rheault, F; Petit, L; Tax, C; Descoteaux, M; Landman, B; Anderson, A. (2021). Beyond crossing fibers: investigating the prevalence of bottleneck configurations with diffusion MRI tractography. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (Accepted).
• Rheault, F; Houde, J; Sidhu, J; Obaid, S; Guberman, G; Daducci, A; Descoteaux, A. (2021). Connectoflow: A cutting-edge Nextflow pipeline for structural connectomics. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (Accepted).
• Grenier, G; Rheault, F; Descoteaux, M. (2021). Discriminative Ensemble Average Propagator radial profiles along fixels of the centrum semiovale. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (Accepted).
• Ivanova, M; Rheault, F; Dronkers N. (2021). Finding the right connections: Investigating how tractography algorithms influence observed patterns of brain-language relationships. Society for Neurobiology of Language conference. (Accepted).
• Cunnane, S; Roy, M; Rheault, F; Fortier, M; Descoteaux, M; Castellano, CA; St-Pierre, V; Bocti, C; Fulop, T. (2021). Ketones and improved cognition in MCI: links to ApoE and white matter energetics. Alzheimer's Association International Conference. (Accepted).
• Roy, M; Dumont, N; Houde, JC; Rheault, F; Tesi, R; Barnum, C; Descoteaux, M. (2021). Novel white matter imaging measures of neuroinflammation, axonal density and demyelination as potential biomarkers for trials in the AD spectrum: validation in the largescale longitudinal multicenter ADNI studies. Clinical Trials on Alzheimers Disease Conference. (Accepted).
• Obaid, S; Rheault, F; Edde, M; Guberman, G; St-Onge, E; Sidhu, J; Bouthillier, A; Daducci, A; Nguyen, D; Descoteaux, M. (2021). Structural connectivity alterations in operculo-insular epilepsy. Organization for Human Brain Mapping. (Accepted).
• Chauvel, M; Rheault, F; Rolland, C; Aubrain, K; Leroy, F; Girard, H; Riviere, D; Hertz-Pannier, L; Mangin, J; Descoteaux, M; Dubois, J. (2020). Exploring the microstructural properties of the newborn sensori-motor network with diffusion MRI. Organisation for Human Brain Mapping. (Accepted).
• Ivanova, M; Rheault, F; Dronkers, A. (2020). Finding critical language connections with multiple tractography algorithms : A new analytic approach. Organisation for Human Brain Mapping. (Accepted).
• Hansen, C; Yang, Q; Rheault, F; Qamar, B; Williams, O; Resnick, S; Garyfallidis, E; Anderson, A; Descoteaux, M; Landman, B. (2020). Learning white matter fingerprints from structural information. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (Accepted).
• Roy, M; Rheault, F; Croteau, E; Castellano, CA; Fortier, M; St-Pierre, V; Houde, JC; Turcotte, E; Bocti, C; Fulop, T; Cunnane, S; Descoteaux, M. (2020). White matter fascicle-specific deterioration of glucose supply in early Alzheimer's disease. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (Accepted).
• Petit, L; Rheault, F; Descoteaux, M; Tzourio-Mazoyer, N. (2019). Half of the streamlines built in a whole human brain tractogram are anatomically uninterpretable. Organisation for Human Brain Mapping. (Accepted).
• Sidhu, J; Rheault, F; Descoteaux, M. (2019). Needle in a Haystack : Finding connections of interest in the precentral gyrus from diffusion MRI based connectomics. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (Accepted).
• Rheault, F; Petit, L; Descoteaux, M. (2019). Tractostorm : Evaluation of intra and inter rater reproducibility in tractography dissection. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (Accepted).
• Chenot, Q; Tzourio-Mazoyer, N; Rheault, F; Descoteaux, M; Petit, L. (2018). Building a probabilistic atlas of the human corticospinal tract from 410 healthy participants by using enhanced bundle-specific tractography. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (Accepted).
• Poulin, P; Rheault, F; St-Onge, E; Jodoin, PM; Descoteaux, M. (2018). Bundle-Wise Deep Tracker: Learning to track bundle-specific streamline paths. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (Accepted).
• Rheault, F; St-Onge, E; Sidhu, J; Chenot, Q; Petit, L; Descoteaux, M. (2018). Bundle-specific tractography. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp 129–139. (Published).
• Rheault, F; St-Onge, E; Chenot, Q; Petit, L; Descoteaux, M. (2018). Bundle-specific tractography using voxel-wise orientation priors. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (Accepted).
• Deslauriers-Gauthier, S; Parker, D; Rheault, F; Deriche, R; Brem, S; Descoteaux, M; Verma, R. (2018). Edema-Informed Anatomically Constrained Particle Filter Tractography. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 375-382. (Published).
• Rheault, F; Houde, JC; Goyette, N; Morency, F; Descoteaux, M. (2016). MI-Brain, a software to handle tractograms and perform interactive virtual dissection. In Proceedings of the ISMRM Diffusion study group workshop. (Accepted).
• Garyfallidis, E; Cote, MA; Rheault, F; Descoteaux, M. (2016). QuickBundlesX: sequential clustering of millions of streamlines in multiple levels of detail at record execution time. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (Accepted).
• Rheault, F; Collins, D; Descoteaux, M. (2016). Streamlines non-linear registration using MR-Ultrasound for intraoperative brain shift correction. Organization for Human Brain Mapping. (Accepted).

Propriétés intellectuelles

Patents

• Coté S, Rheault F. (2018). High accuracy indoor tracking. 9918204. United States of America. (Granted/Issued).

Licenses

• Outil automatisé d’identification de faisceaux de la matière blanche en tractographie cérébrale basée sur l’IRM de diffusion. (2018). (Granted).

Autres contributions

Cours enseignés

• Acquisition des médias numériques. IMN119.
• Programmation scientifique en Python. IFT211.
• Transmission et codage des médias numériques. IMN517.

Gestion d'évènements

• Organizer. (2024) Tractometry: Peering Into the White Matter for the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). (Workshop).
• Organizer. (2023) Computation Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CDMRI) Workshop at Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI). (Workshop).
• Organizer. (2023) Tractometry: Peering Into the White Matter for the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). (Workshop).
• Organizer. (2022) Computation Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CDMRI) Workshop at Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI). (Workshop).

Activités de collaboration internationale

• Research Assistant. France. Research Internship with the program CREATE-MIA at Hopital Lariboisiere (AP-HP), neurosurgery department. Under the supervision of Emmanuel Mandonnet, MD/PhD. Assistance in various imaging research projects related to neurosurgery and setting up a fMRI/dMRI processing pipeline.
• Research Intern. France. Research Internship with the program CREATE-MIA at University of Bordeaux, Groupe d'imagerie neurofonctionnelle. Under the supervision of Laurent Petit, PhD. Software development (MI-Brain), a WM virtual dissection tool. Adding requested features to the software to improve user experience. Assistance in various imaging research projects related to neuroanatomy and large-scale analysis.
• Research Intern. United Kingdom. Research Internship with the program CREATE-MIA at King's College London, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences. Under the supervision of Flavio Dell'Acqua, PhD and Marco Catani, MD/PhD, NatBrainLab. Software development (MI-Brain), a WM virtual dissection tool. Adding requested features to the software to improve user experience.

Présentations

• (2023). La matière blanche affiche ses couleurs!. On s’en met plein les yeux. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2022). Challenges & Hidden Pitfalls of Tractography Today. MRM Workshop on Diffusion MRI: From Research to Clinic Session: Tractography & Connectivity. Amsterdam, Netherlands
• (Same session) Christine Rogers Alexis Thual Victor Férat Sara Larivière Omar El Rifai. (2022). TRX: A community-oriented tractography file format. Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2022 Session: Computational and Data Management Tools. Glasgow, United Kingdom
• (2022). Understanding Tractography File Formats and Reference Spaces. Dipy Workshop 2022. Bloomington, United States of America
• (2021). A Brief History of Neuroscience. Dipy Workshop 2021. Bloomington, United States of America
• (2021). Intro to diffusion MRI and Tractography. Neuroimaging seminar at Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. Nashville, United States of America
• (2021). L’imagerie médicale: Mathématiques et l’informatique dans le domaine de la santé. Conférence Interne, Étudiants Science Nature. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2021). Tractography & multiple sclerosis: Challenges and opportunities. Vanderbilt Multiple Sclerosis Journal Club. Nashville, United States of America
• (2020). A Brain Odyssey: Challenges and solutions for tractography in clinical settings. Imeka Solutions Webinar Series. Virtual, Canada
• (2019). A brief History of Neuroscience. Dipy Workshop 2019. Bloomington, United States of America
• (2018). 2018 : L'Odyssée du Cerveau. Tempête de Science (Cégep Garneau). Quebec, Canada
• (2018). Oser la recherche: Imagerie Médicale. Évenement Oser la recherche. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2017). Bundle-specific tractography with incorporated anatomical and orientational priors. Centre des NeuroSciences de Sherbrooke Scientific Retreat. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2017). Introduction to MR imaging and challenges of machine learning in medical imaging. Crash course for Owkin, Biotechnology AI startup. Paris, France
• (2016). 2016 : L'Odyssée du Cerveau. Tempêtes de sciences (Cégep Garneau). Quebec, Canada
• (2016). Presentation of MI-Brain virtual dissection functionalities. Science Day at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at the King's College London. London, United Kingdom
• (2016). RecobundlesX: Méthode de segmentation automatique de faisceaux, une approche géométrique. Scientific Day at the Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives (IMN), Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle (GIN). Bordeaux, France
• (2016). White matter segmentation and automatic bundle recognition. Post-conference debriefing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). Lausanne, Switzerland