Publications

📚You can find the complete and up-to-date list of my publications on my Google Scholar profile.


Research Highlights⭐

Quantitative Ultra-High-Field MRI to Better Characterize Spinal Cord Damage

Our research on 7T quantitative MRI for the characterization of spinal cord damage in multiple sclerosis was featured by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Source: https://www.insis.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/limagerie-quantitative-ultra-haut-champ-pour-mieux-caracteriser-les-atteintes-de-la-moelle


Journal Articles 📖

  1. Laines-Medina N., Mchinda S., Testud B., Le Troter A., Pini L., Audoin B., Pelletier J., Demortière S., Cohen-Adad J., Callot V. White and Gray Matter Multiple Sclerosis Spinal Cord Lesion Characteristics and Individualized Tissue Damage Assessment Using 7T T1 Mapping. Investigative Radiology. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1097/RLI.0000000000001288.

  2. Laines-Medina N., Mchinda S., Testud B., Demortière S., Pravatà E., Nair G., Reich D.S., Granziera C., Tsagkas C., Callot V., Cohen-Adad J. Automatic Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation in the Spinal Cord Using 3T and 7T MP2RAGE Images. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msard.2026.107250.

  3. Laines-Medina N., Valosek J., Mchinda S., Krejci K., Bednarik J., Horak T., Kudlicka P., Papinutto N., Henry R.G., Pareto D., Sastre-Garriga J., Rovira A., Levin M., Mohamed F., Smith S.A., Granberg T., Hemond C., Tsagkas C., Granziera C., Schlaeger R., Wheeler-Kingshott C.A.G., Kerbrat A., Bannier E., Fehlings M., Martin A.R., Combes A., Sweeney G., McGrath M., O'Grady K.P., David G., Callot V., Cohen-Adad J. Automatic Spinal Cord Gray Matter Segmentation Across Multiple MRI Contrasts, Field Strengths, Regions and Pathologies. Submitted to Journal of Neuroimaging. 2026. - ISMRM Abstract

  4. Benveniste P.-L., Létourneau-Guillon L., Araujo D., Chougar L., Fetco D., Hori M., Kamiya K., Messina S., Tsagkas C., Audoin B., Bannier E., Blezek D., Brisset J.-C., Callot V., Charlson E., Chen M., Ciccarelli O., Demortière S., Edan G., Filippi M., Granberg T., Granziera C., Hemond C., Keegan B.M., Kerbrat A., Kirschke J., Kolind S., Labauge P., Lee L.E., Liu Y., Mainero C., McGinnis J., Laines-Medina N., Muhlau M., Nair G., O'Grady K.P., Oh J., Ouellette R., Prat A., Reich D.S., Rocca M.A., Shepherd T.M., Smith S.A., Stawiarz L., Talbott J., Tam R., Tauhid S., Traboulsee A., Treaba C.A., Valsasina P., Vavasour Z., Yiannakas M., Lombaert H., Cohen-Adad J. Generalizable Spinal Cord Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation Across MRI Contrasts, Protocols, and Centers. Multiple Sclerosis Journal. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/13524585261427333.

  5. Testud B., Fabiani N., Demortière S., Mchinda S., Laines-Medina N., Pelletier J., Guye M., Audoin B., Stellmann J.-P., Callot V. Contribution of the MP2RAGE 7T Sequence in Multiple Sclerosis Lesions of the Cervical Spinal Cord. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 2023. https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A7964.


Conference Proceedings📝

  1. Laines-Medina N., Mchinda S., Testud B., Le Troter A., Pini L., Audoin B., Pelletier J., Demortière S., Cohen-Adad J., Callot V. 7T Spinal Cord T1 Mapping: White Matter/Gray Matter MS Lesion Characteristics and Patient-Specific Damage. France SEP MRI Workshop (Paris, France, 2026) and ISMRM (Cape Town, South Africa, 2026).

  2. Laines-Medina N., Valosek J., Mchinda S., et al. Automatic Spinal Cord Gray Matter Segmentation Across Multiple Contrasts, Magnetic Fields, Regions and Pathologies. ESMRMB (Marseille, France, 2025) and ISMRM (Cape Town, South Africa, 2026).

  3. Rios S., Laines-Medina N., Marion G., Alonso-Ortiz E. A Whole-Body Digital Phantom for MR Signal Simulation with High-Resolution Spinal Cord Structures. ISMRM (Cape Town, South Africa, 2026).

  4. Laines-Medina N., Mchinda S., Testud B., Demortière S., Pravatà E., Nair G., Reich D.S., Granziera C., Tsagkas C., Callot V., Cohen-Adad J. Automatic Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation in the Spinal Cord on 3T and 7T MP2RAGE Images. ESMRMB (Barcelona, Spain, 2024); ISMRM (Honolulu, USA, 2025); France SEP MRI Workshop (Paris, France, 2025); SFRMBM (Saint-Malo, France, 2025).

  5. Boudreau M., Pageot C., Molinier N., Laines-Medina N., Rios S., D'Astous A., Callot V., Alonso-Ortiz E., Cohen-Adad J. Anatomy-Based Simulations of B0 Field Maps: A Large Database for Head and Spine Shim Coil Development. ISMRM (Honolulu, USA, 2025).

  6. Caldas C., Laines-Medina N., Apaza L., Isasi D. 18F-FDG PET/CT in Sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease: A Case Report. European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) Annual Congress, Barcelona, Spain (2025).

  7. Laines-Medina N., Le Troter A., Mchinda S., Cohen-Adad J., Callot V. Right-Left Asymmetry in the Cervical Spinal Cord Using T1 Mapping at 7T. ISMRM (Singapore, 2024) and ESMRMB (Barcelona, Spain, 2024).

  8. Laines-Medina N., Testud B., Demortière S., Mchinda S., Le Troter A., Callot V. Spinal Cord MS Lesion Detection at 7T: Added Value of MP2RAGE Imaging and Requirement for Automatic Lesion Segmentation. ISMRM (Toronto, Canada, 2023).

  9. Le Troter A., Laines-Medina N., Mchinda S., Cohen-Adad J., Callot V. AMU7T: A 3D QT1 and T2*-Weighted High-Resolution In Vivo Template with Refined White and Gray Matter Parcellation Dedicated to 7T Spinal Cord MR Analyses. ISMRM (Toronto, Canada, 2023).

  10. Mchinda S., Le Troter A., Demortière S., Laines-Medina N., Pini L., Pelletier J., Audoin B., Callot V. Z-Score Maps to Characterize Spinal Cord Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis Patients: Toward a Semi-Automated Lesion Identification and Segmentation Method. ISMRM (Toronto, Canada, 2023).

  11. Laines-Medina N., Gros C., Cohen-Adad J., Le Troter A., Callot V. A Multiclass Deep-Learning Model with Realistic Data Augmentation for Improved 7T Gray Matter/Spinal Cord Segmentation in Patients and Healthy Controls. ISMRM (London, United Kingdom, 2022).


Preprints📄

  1. Laines-Medina N., Gros C., Cohen-Adad J., Callot V., Le Troter A. 2D Multi-Class Model for Gray and White Matter Segmentation of the Cervical Spinal Cord at 7T. arXiv. 2021. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2110.06516.


Open Datasets💾

  1. Callot V., Laines-Medina N., Taso M., Fradet L. In Vivo Human Spinal Cord MRI Data: From Cervical to Thoraco-Lumbar Levels. Open Science Framework (OSF). 2022. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/YMRGK

  2. Molinier N., Bédard S., Boudreau M., Cohen-Adad J., Callot V., Alonso-Ortiz E., Pageot C., Laines-Medina N., Valošek J. Whole-Spine Anatomical MRI dataset & B0 simulations OpenNeuro. 2025. https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds005616.v1.1.2.