Dr Amir Fazlollahi
Research Fellow
Queensland Brain Institute

Journal Articles
Cornelis, Marilyn C., Fazlollahi, Amir, Bennett, David A., Schneider, Julie A. and Ayton, Scott (2025). Genetic Markers of Postmortem Brain Iron. Journal of Neurochemistry, 169 (2) e16309, 2. doi: 10.1111/jnc.16309
Khormi, Ibrahim, Fazlollahi, Amir, Al-iedani, Oun, Vidyasagar, Rishma, Ayton, Scott, Alshehri, Abdulaziz, Paton, Bryan, Ramadan, Saadallah and Lechner-Scott, Jeannette (2024). Quantitative susceptibility mapping of the fear circuit: Associations with silent symptoms in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Neuroradiology Journal. doi: 10.1177/19714009241303123
Borne, Léonie, Thienel, Renate, Lupton, Michelle K., Guo, Christine, Mosley, Philip, Behler, Anna, Giorgio, Joseph, Adam, Robert, Ceslis, Amelia, Bourgeat, Pierrick, Fazlollahi, Amir, Maruff, Paul, Rowe, Christopher C., Masters, Colin L., Fripp, Jurgen, Robinson, Gail A. and Breakspear, Michael (2024). The interplay of age, gender and amyloid on brain and cognition in mid-life and older adults. Scientific Reports, 14 (1) 27207, 1-15. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-78308-3
Ayton, Scott, Barton, David, Brew, Bruce, Brodtmann, Amy, Clarnette, Roger, Desmond, Patricia, Devos, David, Ellis, Kathryn A., Fazlollahi, Amir, Fradette, Caroline, Goh, Anita M. Y., Kalinowski, Pawel, Kyndt, Christopher, Lai, Rosalyn, Lim, Yen Ying, Maruff, Paul, O’Brien, Terence J., Rowe, Christopher, Salvado, Olivier, Schofield, Peter W., Spino, Michael, Tricta, Fernando, Wagen, Aaron, Williams, Robert, Woodward, Michael and Bush, Ashley I. (2024). Deferiprone in Alzheimer Disease : A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Neurology, 82 (1), 11-18. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.3733
Xiong, Zhuang, Gao, Yang, Liu, Yin, Fazlollahi, Amir, Nestor, Peter, Liu, Feng and Sun, Hongfu (2024). Quantitative susceptibility mapping through model-based deep image prior (MoDIP). NeuroImage, 291 120583, 120583. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120583
Vidyasagar, Rishma, Fazollahi, Amir, Desmond, Patricia, Moffat, Bradford, Bush, Ashley I. and Ayton, Scott (2024). Single-session reproducibility of MR spectroscopy measures of glutathione in the mesial temporal lobe with MEGA-PRESS. Journal of Neuroimaging, 34 (2), 224-231. doi: 10.1111/jon.13179
Fazlollahi, Amir, Lee, Soohyun, Coleman, Felicia, McCann, Emily, Cloos, Martijn A., Bourgeat, Pierrick and Nestor, Peter J. (2023). Increased resolution of structural MRI at 3T improves estimation of regional cortical degeneration in individual dementia patients using surface thickness maps. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 95 (3), 1-10. doi: 10.3233/jad-230030
Moftian, Nazila, Soltani, Taha Samad, Salahzadeh, Zahra, Pourfeizi, Hojjat Hossein, Gheibi, Yousef, Fazlollahi, Amir and Rezaei-Hachesu, Peyman (2022). Computer-aided measurement system using image processing for measuring Cobb angle in scoliosis. Middle East Journal of Rehabilitation and Health Studies, 9 (1) e111360, 1-8. doi: 10.5812/mejrh.111360
Gao, Yang, Xiong, Zhuang, Fazlollahi, Amir, Nestor, Peter J., Vegh, Viktor, Nasrallah, Fatima, Winter, Craig, Pike, G. Bruce, Crozier, Stuart, Liu, Feng and Sun, Hongfu (2022). Instant tissue field and magnetic susceptibility mapping from MRI raw phase using Laplacian enhanced deep neural networks. NeuroImage, 259 119410, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119410
Mandal, Pravat K., Goel, Anshika, Bush, Ashley, Punjabi, Khushboo, Joon, Shallu, Mishra, Ritwick, Tripathi, Manjari, Garg, Arun, Kumar, Natasha K., Sharma, Pooja, Shukla, Deepika, Ayton, Scott Jonathan, Fazlollahi, Amir, Maroon, Joseph C., Dwivedi, Divya, Samkaria, Avantika, Sandal, Kanika, Megha, Kanu and Shandilya, Sandhya (2022). Hippocampal glutathione depletion with enhanced iron level in patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease compared with healthy elderly participants. Brain Communications, 4 (5) fcac215, 1-11. doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcac215
Xia, Ying, Eeles, Eamonn, Fripp, Jurgen, Pinsker, Donna, Thomas, Paul, Latter, Melissa, Doré, Vincent, Fazlollahi, Amir, Bourgeat, Pierrick, Villemagne, Victor L., Coulson, Elizabeth J. and Rose, Stephen (2022). Reduced cortical cholinergic innervation measured using [18F]-FEOBV PET imaging correlates with cognitive decline in mild cognitive impairment. NeuroImage: Clinical, 34 102992, 102992. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.102992
Borne, Léonie, Lupton, Michelle K., Guo, Christine, Mosley, Philip, Adam, Robert, Ceslis, Amelia, Bourgeat, Pierrick, Fazlollahi, Amir , Maruff, Paul, Rowe, Christopher C., Masters, Colin L., Fripp, Jurgen , Robinson, Gail A. and Breakspear, Michael (2022). A snapshot of brain and cognition in healthy mid-life and older adults. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2022.01.20.476706
Momeni, Saba, Fazlollahi, Amir, Lebrat, Leo, Yates, Paul, Rowe, Christopher, Gao, Yongsheng, Liew, Alan Wee-Chung and Salvado, Olivier (2021). Generative model of brain microbleeds for MRI detection of vascular marker of neurodegenerative diseases. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15 778767, 778767. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2021.778767
Momeni, Saba, Fazlollahi, Amir, Yates, Paul, Rowe, Christopher, Gao, Yongsheng, Liew, Alan Wee-Chung and Salvado, Olivier (2021). Synthetic microbleeds generation for classifier training without ground truth. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 207 106127, 106127. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.106127
Fowler, Christopher, Rainey-Smith, Stephanie R., Bird, Sabine, Bomke, Julia, Bourgeat, Pierrick, Brown, Belinda M., Burnham, Samantha C., Bush, Ashley I., Chadunow, Carolyn, Collins, Steven, Doecke, James, Doré, Vincent, Ellis, Kathryn A., Evered, Lis, Fazlollahi, Amir, Fripp, Jurgen, Gardener, Samantha L., Gibson, Simon, Grenfell, Robert, Harrison, Elise, Head, Richard, Jin, Liang, Kamer, Adrian, Lamb, Fiona, Lautenschlager, Nicola T., Laws, Simon M., Li, Qiao-Xin, Lim, Lucy, Lim, Yen Ying ... Ames, David (2021). Fifteen years of the Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle (AIBL) Study: progress and observations from 2,359 older adults spanning the spectrum from cognitive normality to Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports, 5 (1), 443-468. doi: 10.3233/ADR-210005
Lupton, Michelle K., Robinson, Gail A., Adam, Robert J, Rose, Stephen, Byrne, Gerard J., Salvado, Olivier, Pachana, Nancy A., Almeida, Osvaldo P., McAloney, Kerrie, Gordon, Scott D., Raniga, Parnesh, Fazlollahi, Amir, Xia, Ying, Ceslis, Amelia, Sonkusare, Saurabh, Zhang, Qing, Kholghi, Mahnoosh, Karunanithi, Mohan, Mosley, Philip E., Lv, Jinglei, Borne, Léonie, Adsett, Jessica, Garden, Natalie, Fripp, Jurgen, Martin, Nicholas G., Guo, Christine C. and Breakspear, Michael (2020). A prospective cohort study of prodromal Alzheimer’s disease: Prospective Imaging Study of Ageing: genes, brain and behaviour (PISA). NeuroImage: Clinical, 29 102527, 102527. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102527
Fazlollahi, Amir, Raniga, Parnesh, Bourgeat, Pierrick, Yates, Paul, Bush, Ashley I., Salvado, Olivier and Ayton, Scott (2020). Restricted effect of cerebral microbleeds on regional magnetic susceptibility. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 76 (2), 571-577. doi: 10.3233/JAD-200076
Fazlollahi, Amir, Calamante, Fernando, Liang, Xiaoyun, Bourgeat, Pierrick, Raniga, Parnesh, Dore, Vincent, Fripp, Jurgen, Ames, David, Masters, Colin L., Rowe, Christopher C., Connelly, Alan, Villemagne, Victor L. and Salvado, Olivier (2020). Increased cerebral blood flow with increased amyloid burden in the preclinical phase of alzheimer's disease. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 51 (2), 505-513. doi: 10.1002/jmri.26810
Diouf, Ibrahima, Fazlollahi, Amir, Bush, Ashley I. and Ayton, Scott (2019). Cerebrospinal fluid ferritin levels predict brain hypometabolism in people with underlying β-amyloid pathology. Neurobiology of Disease, 124, 335-339. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2018.12.010
Bollmann, Steffen, Kristensen, Matilde Holm, Larsen, Morten Skaarup, Olsen, Mathias Vassard, Pedersen, Mads Jozwiak, Østergaard, Lasse Riis, O’Brien, Kieran, Langkammer, Christian, Fazlollahi, Amir and Barth, Markus (2019). SHARQnet – Sophisticated harmonic artifact reduction in quantitative susceptibility mapping using a deep convolutional neural network. Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik, 29 (2), 139-149. doi: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2019.01.001
McCombe, Pamela A., Ngo, Shyuan T., Guo, Christine Cong, Fazlollahi, Amir, Bollmann, Saskia, Wang, Liting, Hu, Xintao, Barth, Markus, Salvado, Olivier, Davis, Mark, Ceslis, Amelia, Robinson, Gail, Henderson, Robert D. and Steyn, Frederik J. (2018). Patient with ALS with a novel TBK1 mutation, widespread brain involvement, behaviour changes and metabolic dysfunction. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 90 (8), 952-954. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2018-318823
Ayton, Scott, Fazlollahi, Amir, Bourgeat, Pierrick, Raniga, Parnesh, Ng, Amanda, Lim, Yen Ying, Diouf, Ibrahima, Farquharson, Shawna, Fripp, Jurgen, Ames, David, Doecke, James, Desmond, Patricia, Ordidge, Roger, Masters, Colin L., Rowe, Christopher C., Maruff, Paul, Villemagne, Victor L., Salvado, Olivier and Bush, Ashley I. (2017). Cerebral quantitative susceptibility mapping predicts amyloid-β-related cognitive decline. Brain, 140 (8), 2112-2119. doi: 10.1093/brain/awx137
Ghose, Soumya, Mitra, Jhimli, Rivest-Hénault, David, Fazlollahi, Amir, Stanwell, Peter, Pichler, Peter, Sun, Jidi, Fripp, Jurgen, Greer, Peter B. and Dowling, Jason A. (2016). MRI-alone radiation therapy planning for prostate cancer: Automatic fiducial marker detection. Medical Physics, 43 (5), 2218-2228. doi: 10.1118/1.4944871
Fazlollahi, Amir, Meriaudeau, Fabrice, Giancardo, Luca, Villemagne, Victor L., Rowe, Christopher C., Yates, Paul, Salvado, Olivier and Bourgeat, Pierrick (2015). Computer-aided detection of cerebral microbleeds in susceptibility-weighted imaging. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 46, 269-276. doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2015.10.001
Fazlollahi, Amir, Bourgeat, Pierrick, Liang, Xiaoyun, Meriaudeau, Fabrice, Connelly, Alan, Salvado, Olivier and Calamante, Fernando (2015). Reproducibility of multiphase pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling and the effect of post-processing analysis methods. NeuroImage, 117, 191-201. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.048
Afshar, Sepideh, Sheehan, Madoc and Fazlollahi, Amir (2015). Using CFD to derive reduced order models for heat transfer in particle curtains. Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, 15 (2), 71-80. doi: 10.1504/PCFD.2015.068815
Gal, Yaniv, Dowson, Nicholas, Bourgeat, Pierrick, Salvado, Olivier, Thomas, Paul, Fay, Michael, Rose, Stephen, Jeffery, Rosalind L., Fazlollahi, Amir and Crozier, Stuart (2014). Amorphous regions-of-interest projection method for simplified longitudinal comparison of dynamic regions in cancer imaging. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 61 (2) 6601687, 264-272. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2282402
Conference Papers
Fazlollahi, Amir, Oestreich, Lena and Nestor, Peter (2024). Deciphering white-matter changes in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy using free-water diffusion MRI. Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Seoul, South Korea, 23-27 June 2024. doi: 10.52294/001c.120379
Scott, Ashleigh, Lo, Ada, Thompson, Kate, Xia, Ying, Bodimeade, Harriet, Fazlollahi, Amir, Curley, Cameron, Lane, Steven W., Morris, Kirk Lachlan, McNamara, Caroline Jane, Pillai, Elango S., Weber, Nicholas, Salvado, Olivier, McMahon, Katie L. and Kennedy, Glen A. (2023). Prospective MRI and neurocognitive assessment of “Chemobrain” in acute myeloid leukaemia: the mineral study. 65th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition, San Diego, CA, United States, 9-12 December 2023. Washington, DC, United States: American Society of Hematology. doi: 10.1182/blood-2023-190301
Xia, Ying, Eeles, Eamonn, Fripp, Jurgen, Pinsker, Donna, Thomas, Paul, Latter, Melissa, Dore, Vincent, Fazlollahi, Amir, Bourgeat, Pierrick, Villemagne, Victor L., Coulson, Elizabeth J. and Rose, Stephen (2023). Reduced cortical cholinergic innervation correlates with cognitive decline in mild cognitive impairment. Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) 2022, San Diego, CA United States, 31 July - 4 August 2022. Hoboken, NJ United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/alz.063527
Kholghi, Mahnoosh, Fazlollahi, Amir, Lupton, Michelle K., Bourgeat, Pierrick, Zhang, Qing, Martin, Nicholas G., Breakspear, Michael, Fripp, Jurgen and PISA (Prospective Imaging Study of Aging: Genes, Brain and Behaviour) (2023). The association between sleep restlessness and neuroimaging biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease in mid‐life to older adults and patients. Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) 2022, San Diego, CA United States, 31 July - 4 August 2022. Hoboken, NJ United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/alz.062017
Fazlollahi, Amir, Lee, Soohyun, Coleman, Felicia, McCann, Emily and Nestor, Peter (2023). Significant diffusion MRI changes in the callosal genu in progressive supranuclear palsy compared to Lewy Body Diseases. Australia Dementia Research Forum, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 29 - 31 May 2023.
Fazlollahi, Amir, Lee, Soohyun, Coleman, Felicia, McCann, Emily and Nestor, Peter (2023). MRI Estimation of Iron Deposition Identifies Elevated Pallidal And Rubral Iron Levels In PSP Compared To Parkinson’s Disease. Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, 28 March - 1 April 2023.
Gao, Yang, Xiong, Zhuang, Fazlollahi, Amir, Nestor, Peter, Vegh, Viktor, Pike, G. Bruce, Crozier, Stuart, Liu, Feng and Sun, Hongfu (2023). QSM from the raw phase using an end-to-end neural network. ISMRM Annual Meeting, London, United Kingdom, 7-12 May 2022. Berkeley, CA, United States: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. doi: 10.58530/2022/4740
Fazlollahi, Amir, Xia, Ying, Lupton, Michelle K., Raniga, Parnesh, Bourgeat, Pierrick, Martin, Nick, Dore, Vincent, Rose, Stephen, Salvado, Olivier, Breakspear, Michael and Fripp, Jurgen (2022). Early effects of amyloid-β on structural and vascular brain changes in mid-life cognitively unimpaired individuals. Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) 2021, Denver, CO United States, 26-30 July 2021. Hoboken, NJ United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/alz.052681
Lupton, Michelle K., Fazlollahi, Amir, Ceslis, Amelia, Fripp, Jurgen, Rose, Stephen, Salvado, Olivier, Robinson, Gail, Guo, Christine, Breakspear, Michael and Martin, Nick (2020). The use of genetic risk prediction to study prodromal Alzheimer’s disease in the PISA study : Genetics/genetic factors of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2020, Online, 27-30 July 2020. Hoboken, NJ United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/alz.045023
Li, Xingjuan, Burnham, Samantha, Fripp, Jurgen, Li, Yu, Li, Xue, Fazlollahi, Amir and Bourgeat, Pierrick (2019). Identification of functional connectivity features in depression subtypes using a data-driven approach. International Workshop on Graph Learning in Medical Imaging (GLMI 2019), Shenzhen, China, 17-19 October 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-35817-4_12
Fazlollahi, Amir, Ayton, Scott, Bourgeat, Pierrick, Diouf, Ibrahima, Raniga, Parnesh, Fripp, Jurgen, Doecke, James, Ames, David, Masters, Colin L., Rowe, Christopher C., Villemagne, Victor L., Bush, Ashley I. and Salvado, Olivier (2018). A framework to objectively identify reference regions for normalizing quantitative imaging. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2018, Granada, Spain, 16-20 September 2018. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-00928-1_8
Fazlollahi, Amir, Ayton, Scott, Bourgeat, Pierrick, Raniga, Parnesh, Ng, Amanda, Fripp, Jurgen, Ames, David, Masters, Colin L., Rowe, Christopher C., Villemagne, Victor L., Bush, Ashley I. and Salvado, Olivier (2017). A normalisation framework for quantitative brain imaging; application to quantitative susceptibility mapping. 2017 IEEE 14th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2017), Melbourne, VIC Australia, 18-21 April 2017. Washington, DC USA: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ISBI.2017.7950477
Mokhtari, G., Zhang, Q. and Fazlollahi, A. (2017). Non-wearable UWB sensor to detect falls in smart home environment. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), Kona, HI USA, 13-17 March 2017. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917571
Pampouchidou, Anastasia, Simantiraki, Olympia, Fazlollahi, Amir, Pediaditis, Matthew, Manousos, Dimitrios, Roniotis, Alexandros, Giannakakis, Georgios, Meriaudeau, Fabrice, Simos, Panagiotis, Marias, Kostas, Yang, Fan and Tsiknakis, Manolis (2016). Depression assessment by fusing high and low level features from audio, video, and text. AVEC '16: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 16 October 2016. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2988257.2988266
Armin, Mohammad Ali, Chetty, Girija, Jurgen, Fripp, De Visser, Hans, Dumas, Cedric, Fazlollahi, Amir, Grimpen, Florian and Salvado, Olivier (2016). Uninformative frame detection in colonoscopy through motion, edge and color features. Second International Workshop, CARE 2015, Munich, Germany, 5 October 2015. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-29965-5_15
Fazlollahi, Amir, Meriaudeau, Fabrice, Villemagne, Victor L., Rowe, Christopher C., Yates, Paul, Salvado, Olivier and Bourgeat, Pierrick (2014). Efficient machine learning framework for computer-aided detection of cerebral microbleeds using the radon transform. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. doi: 10.1109/isbi.2014.6867822
Fazlollahi, Amir, Meriaudeau, Fabrice, Villemagne, Victor L., Rowe, Christopher C., Desmond, Patricia M., Yates, Paul A., Salvado, Olivier and Bourgeat, Pierrick (2013). Automatic detection of small spherical lesions using multiscale approach in 3D medical images. IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICIP.2013.6738239
Mosaddegh, Saleh, Fazlollahi, Amir, Fofi, David and Vasseur, Pascal (2011). Line segment based structure and motion from two views. doi: 10.1117/12.872346
Fazlollahi, Amir, Dowson, Nicholas, Mariaudeau, Fabrice, Rose, Stephan, Fay, Michael, Thomas, Paul, Taylor, Zeike, Gal, Yaniv, Coultard, Alan, Winter, Craig, MacFarlane, David, Slavado, Olivier, Crozier, Stuard and Bourgeat, Pierrick (2011). Automatic brain tumour segmentation in 18F-FDOPA PET using PET/MRI fusion. DICTA 2011: International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Noosa Head, QLD, Australia, 6 - 8 December 2011. Piscataway, NJ, United States: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/DICTA.2011.61