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Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) tractography is an advanced imaging technique that enables in vivo mapping of the brain's white matter connections at macro scale. Over the last two decades, the study of brain connectivity using…

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Tract-specific diffusion measures, as derived from brain diffusion MRI, have been linked to white matter tract structural integrity and neurodegeneration. As a consequence, there is a large interest in the automatic segmentation of white…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-28 Bo Li , Marius de Groot , Meike Vernooij , Arfan Ikram , Wiro Niessen , Esther Bron

Many developmental processes, such as plasticity and aging, or pathological processes such as neurological diseases are characterized by modulations of specific cellular types and their microstructures. Diffusion-weighted Magnetic Resonance…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Marco Palombo , Noam Shemesh , Itamar Ronen , Julien Valette

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a popular magnetic resonance imaging technique used to characterize microstructural changes in the brain. DTI studies quantify the diffusion of water molecules in a voxel using an estimated 3x3 symmetric…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-30 Zhou Lan , Brian J. Reich , Dipankar Bandyopadhyay

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a widely used method for studying brain white matter development and degeneration. However, standard DTI estimation methods depend on a large number of high-quality measurements. This would require long…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Davood Karimi , Ali Gholipour

White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are key imaging markers in cognitive aging, Alzheimer's disease (AD), and related dementias. Although automated methods for WMH segmentation have advanced, most provide only global lesion load and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Julia Machnio , Mads Nielsen , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

Imaging findings inconsistent with those expected at specific chronological age ranges may serve as early indicators of neurological disorders and increased mortality risk. Estimation of chronological age, and deviations from expected…

Magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a critical tool for neural disease diagnosis. However, long scan time greatly hinders the widespread clinical use of DTI. To accelerate image acquisition, a feature-enhanced joint…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Lang Zhang , Jinling He , Dong Liang , Hairong Zheng , Yanjie Zhu

Purpose: To propose a deep learning-based reconstruction framework for ultrafast and robust diffusion tensor imaging and fiber tractography. Methods: We propose SuperDTI to learn the nonlinear relationship between diffusion-weighted images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Hongyu Li , Zifei Liang , Chaoyi Zhang , Ruiying Liu , Jing Li , Weihong Zhang , Dong Liang , Bowen Shen , Xiaoliang Zhang , Yulin Ge , Jiangyang Zhang , Leslie Ying

Joint modeling of diffusion and relaxation has seen growing interest due to its potential to provide complementary information about tissue microstructure. For brain white matter, we designed an optimal diffusion-relaxometry MRI protocol…

Brain atrophy and white matter hyperintensity (WMH) are critical neuroimaging features for ascertaining brain injury in cerebrovascular disease and multiple sclerosis. Automated segmentation and quantification is desirable but existing…

The connectivity and structural integrity of the white matter of the brain is nowadays known to be implicated into a wide range of brain-related disorders. However, it was not before the advent of diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Q. Zhou , O. Michailovich , Y. Rathi

White matter (WM) tract segmentation is a crucial step for brain connectivity studies. It is performed on diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI), and deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved promising segmentation accuracy. Existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Wan Liu , Chuyang Ye

Autism Spectrum Disorder is a condition characterized by a typical brain development leading to impairments in social skills, communication abilities, repetitive behaviors, and sensory processing. There have been many studies combining…

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Diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI), is an imaging modality that yields novel disease biomarkers and in combination with nervous tissue modeling, provides access to microstructural parameters. Recently, DKI and subsequent estimation of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-09 Andrey Chuhutin , Brian Hansen , Agnieszka Wlodarczyk , Trevor Owens , Noam Shemesh , Sune Nørhøj Jespersen

We present a method to discover differences between populations with respect to the spatial coherence of their oriented white matter microstructure in arbitrarily shaped white matter regions. This method is applied to diffusion MRI scans of…

With an estimated five million new stroke survivors every year and a rapidly aging population suffering from hyperintensities and diseases of presumed vascular origin that affect white matter and contribute to cognitive decline, it is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-21 Abdelrahman Zayed , Yasser Iturria-Medina , Arno Villringer , Bernhard Sehm , Christopher J. Steele

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is a non-invasive tool for watching the microstructure of fibrous nerve and muscle tissue. From dMRI, it is possible to estimate 2-rank diffusion tensors imaging (DTI) fields, that are widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Hernan Dario Vargas Cardona , Mauricio A. Alvarez , Alvaro A. Orozco

Diffusion MRI tractography technique enables non-invasive visualization of the white matter pathways in the brain. It plays a crucial role in neuroscience and clinical fields by facilitating the study of brain connectivity and neurological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yiqiong Yang , Yitian Yuan , Baoxing Ren , Ye Wu , Yanqiu Feng , Xinyuan Zhang

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) plays a key role in analyzing the physical structures of biological tissues, particularly in reconstructing fiber tracts of the human brain in vivo. On the one hand, eigenvalues of diffusion tensors (DTs)…

Applications · Statistics 2013-04-18 Tao Yu , Chunming Zhang , Andrew L. Alexander , Richard J. Davidson