Lanya Tianhao Cai, PhD
Associate Specialist
Neurological Surgery
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• PhD Vision Sciences State University of New York - College of Optometry 2017
• Psychology New York University 2012
• MS Biomedical Engineering New York University 2011
• BE Biomedical Engineering Capital Medical University (China) 2008

Interests

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• medical image processing
• Traumatic brain injury
• neurodegenerative diseases
• magnetic resonance imaging
• neuropsychiatric disorders

Publications (13)

Top publication keywords:
White MatterMagnetic Resonance ImagingContrast SensitivityResilience, PsychologicalVisual PerceptionSensory ThresholdsBrain ConcussionZebrafishDiffusion Magnetic Resonance ImagingVision, BinocularEye MovementsConnectomeMotion PerceptionDiffusion Tensor ImagingOptic Flow

• Goal-Oriented Attentional Self-Regulation Training in Chronic Mild Traumatic Brain Injury is Linked to Microstructural Plasticity in Prefrontal White Matter.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2024 Karbasforoushan H, Wren-Jarvis J, Hwang A, Santiago R, Raptentsetsang S, Cai LT, Xiao J, Maruyama BA, Abrams GM, Novakovic-Agopian T, Mukherjee P
• Generative AI for Rapid Diffusion MRI with Improved Image Quality, Reliability and Generalizability
  Imaging Neuroscience 2024 Amir Sadikov, Xinlei Pan, Hannah Choi, Lanya T Cai, Pratik Mukherjee
• MaPPeRTrac: A Massively Parallel, Portable, and Reproducible Tractography Pipeline.
  Neuroinformatics 2024 Cai LT, Moon J, Camacho PB, Anderson AT, Chwa WJ, Sutton BP, Markowitz AJ, Palacios EM, Rodriguez A, Manley GT, Shankar S, Bremer PT, Mukherjee P, Madduri RK, TRACK-TBI Investigators
• Gray matter correlates of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in boys versus girls with sensory processing dysfunction
  Imaging Neuroscience 2024 Efstathios D. Gennatas, Jamie Wren-Jarvis, Rachel Powers, Maia C. Lazerwitz, Ioanna Bourla, Lanya T. Cai, Hannah L. Choi, Robyn Chu, Kaitlyn J. Trimarchi, Rafael D. Garcia, Elysa J. Marco, Pratik …
• White matter microstructure of children with sensory over-responsivity is associated with affective behavior.
  Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders 2024 Wren-Jarvis J, Powers R, Lazerwitz MC, Xiao J, Cai LT, Choi HL, Brandes-Aitken A, Chu R, Trimarchi KJ, Garcia RD, Rowe MA, Steele MC, Marco EJ, Mukherjee P

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• Spatiotemporal visual statistics of aquatic environments in the natural habitats of zebrafish.
  Scientific reports 2023 Cai LT, Krishna VS, Hladnik TC, Guilbeault NC, Vijayakumar C, Arunachalam M, Juntti SA, Arrenberg AB, Thiele TR, Cooper EA
• Neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging of white matter microstructure in sensory processing dysfunction with versus without comorbid ADHD.
  Frontiers in neuroscience 2023 Mark IT, Wren-Jarvis J, Xiao J, Cai LT, Parekh S, Bourla I, Lazerwitz MC, Rowe MA, Marco EJ, Mukherjee P
• Hemispheric lateralization of white matter microstructure in children and its potential role in sensory processing dysfunction.
  Frontiers in neuroscience 2023 Parekh SA, Wren-Jarvis J, Lazerwitz M, Rowe MA, Powers R, Bourla I, Cai LT, Chu R, Trimarchi K, Garcia R, Marco EJ, Mukherjee P
• Optic flow in the natural habitats of zebrafish supports spatial biases in visual self-motion estimation.
  Current biology : CB 2022 Alexander E, Cai LT, Fuchs S, Hladnik TC, Zhang Y, Subramanian V, Guilbeault NC, Vijayakumar C, Arunachalam M, Juntti SA, Thiele TR, Arrenberg AB, Cooper EA
• Emotional Resilience Predicts Preserved White Matter Microstructure Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
  Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging 2022 Cai LT, Brett BL, Palacios EM, Yuh EL, Bourla I, Wren-Jarvis J, Wang Y, Mac Donald C, Diaz-Arrastia R, Giacino JT, Okonkwo DO, Levin HS, Robertson CS, Temkin N, Markowitz AJ, Manley GT, Stein MB, …
• The Case for Optimized Edge-Centric Tractography at Scale.
  Frontiers in neuroinformatics 2022 Moon JY, Mukherjee P, Madduri RK, Markowitz AJ, Cai LT, Palacios EM, Manley GT, Bremer PT
• Diffusion MRI Automated Region of Interest Analysis in Standard Atlas Space versus the Individual’s Native Space
  CDMRI 2021 Proceedings 2021 Lanya T Cai, Maria Baida, Jamie Wren-Jarvis, Ioanna Bourla, Pratik Mukherjee
• Binocular global motion perception is improved by dichoptic segregation when stimuli have high contrast and high speed.
  Journal of vision 2019 Cai LT, Yuan AE, Backus BT