Kaleem Siddiqi, McGill University

Research

Brownian Motion Continuum Mechanics Diffusion Geometry Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI)Generalized Helicoids Ito Calculus Minimal Surfaces Moving Frames

Latest papers

Deep learning segmentation with curvature consistency reveals astrocyte nanostructure across species.
Cell reports · 2026
Automated diagnosis of usual interstitial pneumonia on chest CT via the mean curvature of isophotes.
European journal of radiology open · 2026
Cardiomyocyte orientation recovery at micrometer scale reveals long-axis fiber continuum in heart walls.
The EMBO journal · 2023

All 24 publications

Latest funding

Astrocyte Nanostructure and Function in the Healthy and Diseased Brain
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$990,675
Diffusion and Geometry in Modeling Biological Tissue
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$448,000
Diffusion and Geometry in Modeling Biological Tissue
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$120,000

All 12 grants and awards

24 publications.

01

Deep learning segmentation with curvature consistency reveals astrocyte nanostructure across species.

Fok AHK, Wang Y, Ng M, Syed T, Wong TYM, Salmon CK, Salathiel T, Grondin-Eddy W, Fan L, Siddiqi K, Murai KK

Cell reports2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117725 PMID: 42531129

02

Automated diagnosis of usual interstitial pneumonia on chest CT via the mean curvature of isophotes.

Savadjiev P, Rezanejad M, Bhatnagar S, Camirand D, Kauffmann C, Siddiqi K, Dandurand RJ, Bourgouin P, Chartrand-Lefebvre C, Semionov A

European journal of radiology open2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.ejro.2025.100723 PMID: 41568076

03

Cardiomyocyte orientation recovery at micrometer scale reveals long-axis fiber continuum in heart walls.

Dileep D, Syed TA, Sloan TF, Dhandapany PS, Siddiqi K, Sirajuddin M

The EMBO journal2023

DOI: 10.15252/embj.2022113288 PMID: 37671467

04

Organizing principles of astrocytic nanoarchitecture in the mouse cerebral cortex.

Salmon CK, Syed TA, Kacerovsky JB, Alivodej N, Schober AL, Sloan TFW, Pratte MT, Rosen MP, Green M, Chirgwin-Dasgupta A, Mehta S, Jilani A, Wang Y, Vali H, Mandato CA, Siddiqi K, Murai KK

Current biology : CB2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.043 PMID: 36805126

05

Predicting histopathology markers of endometrial carcinoma with a quantitative image analysis approach based on spherical harmonics in multiparametric MRI.

Lefebvre TL, Ciga O, Bhatnagar SR, Ueno Y, Saif S, Winter-Reinhold E, Dohan A, Soyer P, Forghani R, Siddiqi K, Seuntjens J, Reinhold C, Savadjiev P

Diagnostic and interventional imaging2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.diii.2022.10.007 PMID: 36328942

06

Neural correlates of local parallelism during naturalistic vision.

Wilder J, Rezanejad M, Dickinson S, Siddiqi K, Jepson A, Walther DB

PloS one2022

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260266 PMID: 35061699

07

Improved Detection of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease at Chest CT Using the Mean Curvature of Isophotes.

Savadjiev P, Gallix B, Rezanejad M, Bhatnagar S, Semionov A, Siddiqi K, Forghani R, Reinhold C, Eidelman DH, Dandurand RJ

Radiology. Artificial intelligence2022

DOI: 10.1148/ryai.210105 PMID: 35146436

08

Association of Plasmodium berghei With the Apical Domain of Hepatocytes Is Necessary for the Parasite's Liver Stage Development.

Balasubramanian L, Zuzarte-Luís V, Syed T, Mullick D, Deb S, Ranga-Prasad H, Meissner J, Almeida A, Furstenhaupt T, Siddiqi K, Prudêncio M, Rodrigues CMP, Mota M, Sundaramurthy V

Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2019

DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2019.00451 PMID: 32010639

09

Local contour symmetry facilitates scene categorization.

Wilder J, Rezanejad M, Dickinson S, Siddiqi K, Jepson A, Walther DB

Cognition2019

DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.09.014 PMID: 30415132

10

Conduction in the Heart Wall: Helicoidal Fibers Minimize Diffusion Bias.

Aumentado-Armstrong T, Kadivar A, Savadjiev P, Zucker SW, Siddiqi K

Scientific reports2018Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-25334-7 PMID: 29739992

Astrocyte Nanostructure and Function in the Healthy and Diseased Brain

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Murai, Keith

Keywords: Anatomy; Astrocyte; Brain; Computer Vision; Electron Microscopy; Junction; Physiology

$990,675