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Julien Cohen-Adad

ResearcherElectrical EngineeringPolytechnique Montréal

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Julien Cohen-Adad

Researcher

Electrical Engineering

Health Sciences

Polytechnique Montréal

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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63 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 22 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 12 research grants (9 NSERC, 3 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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Research

Mri Multiple Sclerosis Spinal Cord Brain B0 Shimming Coil Open-Source Software Rf Shimming

Latest papers

Normative Reference Values and Age-Related Variation in Advanced Diffusion MRI of the Pediatric Spinal Cord: DTI, DKI, and NODDI Metrics across Cervical and Thoracic Levels Using Hybrid Diffusion Imaging.
AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2026
Automatic multiple sclerosis lesion segmentation in the spinal cord using 3 T and 7 T MP2RAGE images.
Multiple sclerosis and related disorders · 2026 · senior author
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

All 155 publications

Latest funding

Completing the picture of MS pathology with 7T MRI of the brain-spine axis
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$902,700
Translating AI-based methods to quantify pathology in MS: Development, validation and implementation of a sustainable MRI analysis framework within a pan-Canadian network
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
$826,200
Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$400,000

All 12 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 155 publications.

Normative Reference Values and Age-Related Variation in Advanced Diffusion MRI of the Pediatric Spinal Cord: DTI, DKI, and NODDI Metrics across Cervical and Thoracic Levels Using Hybrid Diffusion Imaging.

Sadeghi Adl Z, Middleton D, Krisa L, Naghizadehkashani S, Alizadeh M, Tounekti S, Faro SH, Flanders A, Finsterbusch J, Cohen-Adad J, Mohamed FB

AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology2026

DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a9633 PMID: 42716713

Automatic multiple sclerosis lesion segmentation in the spinal cord using 3 T and 7 T MP2RAGE images.

Laines-Medina N, Mchinda S, Testud B, Demortière S, Pravatà E, Nair G, Reich DS, Granziera C, Tsagkas C, Callot V, Cohen-Adad J

Multiple sclerosis and related disorders2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.msard.2026.107250 PMID: 42173050

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

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2026

DOI: 10.64898/2026.06.19.26356062 PMID: 42396320

Charting Cervical Spinal Cord Morphometry Across the Lifespan.

Schilling KG, Kim ME, Amandola M, Gao C, Ramadass K, Kanakaraj P, Bogdanov S, Rudravaram G, Newlin NR, Archer D, Hohman TJ, Jefferson AL, Morgan VL, Roche A, Englot DJ, Bilgel M, Beason Held LL, Ferrucci L, Cutting L, Barquero LA, D'archangel MA, Nguyen TQ, Humphreys KL, Niu Y, Vinci-Booher S, Cascio CJ, HABS-HD Study Team, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, BIOCARD Study Team, Li Z, Moyer D, Vandekar SN, Zhang P, St-Onge S, Bédard S, Valošek J, De Leener B, Cohen-Adad J, Gore JC, Smith S, Landman BA

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026Senior author

DOI: 10.64898/2026.06.03.729823 PMID: 42327282

Optimization in Sparse 2D to Dense 3D Weakly Supervised Learning: Application to Multi-Label Segmentation of Large ex vivo MRI Data.

Hoareau P, Wang KY, Bujak B, Sun R, Nair G, Cortese I, Tsagkas C, Reich D, Cohen-Adad J

ArXiv2026Senior author

PMID: 42389252

Segmentation of spinal rootlets across MRI contrasts with RootletSeg.

Krejčí K, Chmelík J, Bédard S, Eippert F, Horn U, Callot V, Cohen-Adad J, Valošek J

Scientific reports2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-49164-0 PMID: 42069899

Generalizable spinal cord multiple sclerosis lesion segmentation across MRI contrasts, protocols, and centers.

Benveniste PL, Létourneau-Guillon L, Araujo D, Chougar L, Fetco D, Hori M, Kamiya K, Messina S, Tsagkas C, Audoin B, Bakshi R, Bannier E, Blezek D, Brisset JC, Callot V, Charlson E, Chen M, Ciccarelli O, Demortière S, Edan G, Filippi M, Granberg T, Granziera C, Hemond CC, Keegan BM, Kerbrat A, Kirschke J, Kolind S, Labauge P, Lee LE, Liu Y, Mainero C, McGinnis J, Laines Medina N, Mühlau M, Nair G, O'Grady KP, Oh J, Ouellette R, Prat A, Reich DS, Rocca MA, Shepherd TM, Smith SA, Stawiarz L, Talbott J, Tam R, Tauhid S, Traboulsee A, Treaba CA, Valsasina P, Vavasour Z, Yiannakas M, Lombaert H, Cohen-Adad J

Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/13524585261427333 PMID: 42028790

Ultrastructural analysis of human uncinate fasciculus with coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy.

Perlman K, Noël VP, Collin A, Major J, Mardenli M, Jerczynski S, Davoli MA, Cohen-Adad J, Côté D, Mechawar N

Biophotonics discovery2026

DOI: 10.1117/1.bios.3.2.025002 PMID: 42027716

Spinal cord involvement and cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction in Parkinson's disease.

Chougar L, Lejeune FX, Cohen-Adad J, Landelle C, Guay-Paquet M, Newton J, Valosek J, Biondetti E, Jovanovic C, Wennberg K, Dagher A, Doyon J, Pyatigorskaya N, Sambin S, Mangone G, Corvol JC, Arnulf I, Vidailhet M, Lehéricy S

Scientific reports2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-38152-z PMID: 41844680

Spatial distribution of spinal cord fMRI activity with electrocutaneous stimulation.

Bédard S, Kaptan M, Indriolo T, Law CS, Pfyffer D, Lee L, Ratliff J, Hu S, Tharin S, Smith ZA, Glover GH, Mackey S, Cohen-Adad J, Weber KA

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2026

DOI: 10.64898/2026.02.26.26347215 PMID: 41822689

Completing the picture of MS pathology with 7T MRI of the brain-spine axis

Nominated PICIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Cohen-Adad, Julien

Keywords: B0 Shimming; Brain; Coil; Mri; Multiple Sclerosis; Open-Source Software; Rf Shimming; Spinal Cord; Ultra-High Field

$902,700

Translating AI-based methods to quantify pathology in MS: Development, validation and implementation of a sustainable MRI analysis framework within a pan-Canadian network

Nominated PICIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Cohen-Adad, Julien

Keywords: Brain; Deep Learning; Generalization; Knowledge Transfer; Lesions; Mri; Multiple Sclerosis; Segmentation; Spinal Cord

$826,200

Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Cohen-Adad, Julien

$400,000

Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Cohen-Adad, Julien

$50,000

Connecting MRI physics and artificial intelligence to advance novel acquisition and analyses technologies for neuroimaging applications

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: CohenAdad, Julien

$366,000

Novel hybrid coils for real-time artifact suppression in magnetic resonance imaging

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Engage Grants Program

Principal investigators: CohenAdad, Julien

$25,000

Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Principal investigatorNSERC2015Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Cohen-Adad, Julien

$60,000

Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Principal investigatorNSERC2015Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: CohenAdad, Julien

Keywords: CRC

$440,000

Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Principal investigatorNSERC2015Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: CohenAdad, Julien

Keywords: CRC

$50,000

Shifting the paradigm of spinal cord quantitative MRI

Nominated PICIHR2014Foundation Grant

Principal investigators: Cohen-Adad, Julien

Keywords: Atlas; Biomarker; Diffusion Imaging; Magnetization Transfer; Mri; Multiple Sclerosis; Q-Space; Spinal Cord; Spinal Cord Injury; Template

$644,456

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Julien Cohen-Adad

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Latest papers

Latest funding

Normative Reference Values and Age-Related Variation in Advanced Diffusion MRI of the Pediatric Spinal Cord: DTI, DKI, and NODDI Metrics across Cervical and Thoracic Levels Using Hybrid Diffusion Imaging.

Automatic multiple sclerosis lesion segmentation in the spinal cord using 3 T and 7 T MP2RAGE images.

Patterns of Muscle Health in Single- and Multi-Site Chronic Pain: A UK Biobank Normative Modeling Study.

Charting Cervical Spinal Cord Morphometry Across the Lifespan.

Optimization in Sparse 2D to Dense 3D Weakly Supervised Learning: Application to Multi-Label Segmentation of Large ex vivo MRI Data.

Segmentation of spinal rootlets across MRI contrasts with RootletSeg.

Generalizable spinal cord multiple sclerosis lesion segmentation across MRI contrasts, protocols, and centers.

Ultrastructural analysis of human uncinate fasciculus with coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy.

Spinal cord involvement and cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction in Parkinson's disease.

Spatial distribution of spinal cord fMRI activity with electrocutaneous stimulation.

Completing the picture of MS pathology with 7T MRI of the brain-spine axis

Translating AI-based methods to quantify pathology in MS: Development, validation and implementation of a sustainable MRI analysis framework within a pan-Canadian network

Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Connecting MRI physics and artificial intelligence to advance novel acquisition and analyses technologies for neuroimaging applications

Novel hybrid coils for real-time artifact suppression in magnetic resonance imaging

Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Shifting the paradigm of spinal cord quantitative MRI

Frequent collaborators

Shannon Kolind

Julien Doyon

Julien Doyon

Jiwon Oh

Anthony Traboulsee

Louis Bherer

Louis Bherer

Louis Bherer

Sridar Narayanan

Sven Joubert

Mathieu Dehaes

Serge Rossignol

Alexandre Prat

Pierre Rainville

Mathieu Roy

Yunyan Zhang

Pierre Chaurand

Marina Martinez

Nathan Churchill

Michael Hardisty

Stewart McLachlin

Jamie Near

Christopher Witiw

Jean-Marc Mac-Thiong

Maryse Fortin

Fabrizio Giuliani

Hassan Rivaz

Pierre Bellec

Samuel Kadoury

Pierre Bellec

Nathalie Arbour

Alain Dagher

Mojgan Hodaie

Frédéric Lesage

Tessa Gordon

Gregory Lodygensky

David Mikulis

Markian Pahuta

Penelope Smyth