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Benjamin De Leener
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Research
Latest papers
A Realistic In Silico Brain Phantom for Quantifying Susceptibility Anisotropy-Induced Error in Susceptibility Separation.
Magnetic resonance in medicine · 2026
Patterns of Muscle Health in Single- and Multi-Site Chronic Pain: A UK Biobank Normative Modeling Study.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
Spinal cord structural and functional architecture and its shared organization with the brain across the adult lifespan.
Nature communications · 2026
Latest funding
- $12,500
Pushing the boundaries for spinal cord imaging in children
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $114,000
Pushing the boundaries for spinal cord imaging in children
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $644,456
Shifting the paradigm of spinal cord quantitative MRI
CIHR · 2014 · Co-investigator
34 publications.
A Realistic In Silico Brain Phantom for Quantifying Susceptibility Anisotropy-Induced Error in Susceptibility Separation.
Ridani D, De Leener B, Alonso-Ortiz E
Patterns of Muscle Health in Single- and Multi-Site Chronic Pain: A UK Biobank Normative Modeling Study.
Kaptan M, Wang Y, de Boer A, Goyal A, Holmes S, Ozkan K, Bédard S, Indriolo T, Law CSW, Pfyffer D, Fundaun J, Berhe E, Gold GE, Chaudhari A, Anoosha PS, Gatti AA, Kogan F, Hargreaves BA, Delp SL, Ratliff J, Hu S, Veeravagu A, Desai A, Tharin S, Alamin T, Smith AC, McKay MJ, Kim B, Walsh R, Schielke A, Dennis D, Decker J, De Leener B, Cohen-Adad J, Smith ZA, Muhammad F, Elliott JM, Marquand AF, Mackey S, Wesselink EO, Weber KA
Spinal cord structural and functional architecture and its shared organization with the brain across the adult lifespan.
Landelle C, Kinany N, St-Onge S, Lungu O, Van De Ville D, Misic B, Marchand-Pauvert V, De Leener B, Doyon J
EPISeg: Automated segmentation of the spinal cord on echo planar images using open-access multi-center data.
Banerjee R, Kaptan M, Tinnermann A, Khatibi A, Dabbagh A, Büchel C, Kündig CW, Law CSW, Pfyffer D, Lythgoe DJ, Tsivaka D, Van De Ville D, Eippert F, Muhammad F, Glover GH, David G, Haynes G, Haaker J, Brooks JCW, Finsterbusch J, Martucci KT, Hemmerling KJ, Mobarak-Abadi M, Hoggarth MA, Howard MA, Bright MG, Kinany N, Kowalczyk OS, Freund P, Barry RL, Mackey S, Vahdat S, Schading S, McMahon SB, Parish T, Marchand-Pauvert V, Chen Y, Smith ZA, Weber Ii KA, De Leener B, Cohen-Adad J
Representation in Brain Imaging Research: A Quebec Demographic Overview.
Oyeniran O, Sintu T, Anazodo U, De Leener B, Alonso-Ortiz E
Diffusion Bubble Model: A novel MRI approach for detection and subtyping of neonatal punctate white matter lesions.
Zhang E, De Leener B, Lodygensky GA
Body size and intracranial volume interact with the structure of the central nervous system: A multi-center in vivo neuroimaging study.
Labounek R, Bondy MT, Paulson AL, Bédard S, Abramovic M, Alonso-Ortiz E, Atcheson NT, Barlow LR, Barry RL, Barth M, Battiston M, Büchel C, Budde MD, Callot V, Combes A, De Leener B, Descoteaux M, de Sousa PL, Dostál M, Doyon J, Dvorak AV, Eippert F, Epperson KR, Epperson KS, Freund P, Finsterbusch J, Foias A, Fratini M, Fukunaga I, Wheeler-Kingshott CAMG, Germani G, Gilbert G, Giove F, Grussu F, Hagiwara A, Henry PG, Horák T, Hori M, Joers JM, Kamiya K, Karbasforoushan H, Keřkovský M, Khatibi A, Kim JW, Kinany N, Kitzler H, Kolind S, Kong Y, Kudlička P, Kuntke P, Kurniawan ND, Kusmia S, Laganà MM, Laule C, Law CSW, Leutritz T, Liu Y, Llufriu S, Mackey S, Martin AR, Martinez-Heras E, Mattera L, O'Grady KP, Papinutto N, Papp D, Pareto D, Parrish TB, Pichiecchio A, Prados F, Rovira À, Ruitenberg MJ, Samson RS, Savini G, Seif M, Seifert AC, Smith AK, Smith SA, Smith ZA, Solana E, Suzuki Y, Tackley GW, Tinnermann A, Valošek J, Van De Ville D, Yiannakas MC, Weber Ii KA, Weiskopf N, Wise RG, Wyss PO, Xu J, Cohen-Adad J, Lenglet C, Nestrašil I
EPISeg: Automated segmentation of the spinal cord on echo planar images using open-access multi-center data.
Banerjee R, Kaptan M, Tinnermann A, Khatibi A, Dabbagh A, Büchel C, Kündig CW, Law CSW, Pfyffer D, Lythgoe DJ, Tsivaka D, Van De Ville D, Eippert F, Muhammad F, Glover GH, David G, Haynes G, Haaker J, Brooks JCW, Finsterbusch J, Martucci KT, Hemmerling KJ, Mobarak-Abadi M, Hoggarth MA, Howard MA, Bright MG, Kinany N, Kowalczyk OS, Freund P, Barry RL, Mackey S, Vahdat S, Schading S, McMahon SB, Parish T, Marchand-Pauvert V, Chen Y, Smith ZA, Weber KA, De Leener B, Cohen-Adad J
Cerebro-spinal somatotopic organization uncovered through functional connectivity mapping.
Landelle C, Kinany N, De Leener B, Murphy ND, Lungu O, Marchand-Pauvert V, Van De Ville D, Doyon J
Investigating the associations between lumbar paraspinal muscle health and age, BMI, sex, physical activity, and back pain using an automated computer-vision model: a UK Biobank study.
Wesselink EO, Pool-Goudzwaard A, De Leener B, Law CSW, Fenyo MB, Ello GM, Coppieters MW, Elliott JM, Mackey S, Weber KA
Pushing the boundaries for spinal cord imaging in children
Principal investigators: De Leener, Benjamin
Pushing the boundaries for spinal cord imaging in children
Principal investigators: De Leener, Benjamin
Keywords: magnetic resonance imaging; quantitative imaging; spinal cord; brain; atlas; neuroimaging; children; pediatric; functional imagin; template
Shifting the paradigm of spinal cord quantitative MRI
Principal investigators: Cohen-Adad, Julien
Keywords: Atlas; Biomarker; Diffusion Imaging; Magnetization Transfer; Mri; Multiple Sclerosis; Q-Space; Spinal Cord; Spinal Cord Injury; Template
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Julien Cohen-Adad and Nikola Stikov: 24 shared papers
- Julien Cohen-Adad and Benjamin De Leener: 22 shared papers
- Julien Cohen-Adad and Shannon Kolind: 12 shared papers
- Julien Cohen-Adad and Eva Alonso Ortiz: 12 shared papers
- Julien Doyon and Benjamin De Leener: 12 shared papers
- Julien Cohen-Adad and Julien Doyon: 11 shared papers
- Benjamin De Leener and Eva Alonso Ortiz: 8 shared papers
- Shannon Kolind and Eva Alonso Ortiz: 7 shared papers
- Sridar Narayanan and Nikola Stikov: 6 shared papers
- Julien Doyon and Shannon Kolind: 6 shared papers
- Shannon Kolind and Benjamin De Leener: 6 shared papers
- Nikola Stikov and Benjamin De Leener: 5 shared papers
- Julien Cohen-Adad and Sridar Narayanan: 3 shared papers
- Sridar Narayanan and Shannon Kolind: 2 shared papers
- Sridar Narayanan and Benjamin De Leener: 2 shared papers
- Bratislav Misic and Julien Doyon: 2 shared papers
- Bratislav Misic and Benjamin De Leener: 2 shared papers
- Julien Cohen-Adad and Samuel Kadoury: 1 shared paper
- Julien Cohen-Adad and Sylvie Nadeau: 1 shared paper
- Samuel Kadoury and Benjamin De Leener: 1 shared paper
- Bratislav Misic and Nikola Stikov: 1 shared paper
- Bratislav Misic and Tristan Glatard: 1 shared paper
- Sylvie Nadeau and Nikola Stikov: 1 shared paper
- Sylvie Nadeau and Benjamin De Leener: 1 shared paper
- Tristan Glatard and Benjamin De Leener: 1 shared paper
- Electrical Engineering
- Montreal Neurological Institute
- Département de génie informatique et génie logiciel
- Electrical Engineering - École Polytechnique de Montréal
- Brain Imaging Centre
- Medicine/Neurology
- Computer and Software Engineering
- Other
Co-authors at Polytechnique Montréal, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Julien Cohen-Adad
Electrical Engineering - École Polytechnique de Montréal
22 shared papers, latest 2026
Julien Doyon
Brain Imaging Centre
12 shared papers, latest 2026
Eva Alonso Ortiz
Electrical Engineering
8 shared papers, latest 2026
Shannon Kolind
Medicine/Neurology
6 shared papers, latest 2025
Nikola Stikov
Electrical Engineering
5 shared papers, latest 2020
Bratislav Misic
Montreal Neurological Institute
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Sridar Narayanan
Montreal Neurological Institute
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Samuel Kadoury
Computer and Software Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Sylvie Nadeau
Mechanical engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Tristan Glatard
Computer Science and Software Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2021
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