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Diffusion MRI tractography is an important tool for identifying and analyzing the intracranial course of cranial nerves (CNs). However, the complex environment of the skull base leads to ambiguous spatial correspondence between diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Lei Xie , Qingrun Zeng , Huajun Zhou , Guoqiang Xie , Mingchu Li , Jiahao Huang , Jianan Cui , Hao Chen , Yuanjing Feng

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), especially functional MRI (fMRI) and diffusion MRI (dMRI), is essential for studying neurodegenerative diseases. However, missing modalities pose a major barrier to their clinical use. Although GAN- and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Xiongri Shen , Jiaqi Wang , Yi Zhong , Zhenxi Song , Leilei Zhao , Yichen Wei , Lingyan Liang , Shuqiang Wang , Baiying Lei , Demao Deng , Zhiguo Zhang

Diffusion MRI tractography is an advanced imaging technique for quantitative mapping of the brain's structural connectivity. Whole brain tractography (WBT) data contains over hundreds of thousands of individual fiber streamlines (estimated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Fan Zhang , Tengfei Xue , Weidong Cai , Yogesh Rathi , Carl-Fredrik Westin , Lauren J O'Donnell

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is an advanced imaging technique characterizing tissue microstructure and white matter structural connectivity of the human brain. The demand for high-quality dMRI data is growing, driven by the need for better…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Xi Zhu , Wei Zhang , Yijie Li , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is essential for studying brain microstructure, but high-resolution imaging remains challenging due to the inherent trade-offs between acquisition time and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Conventional methods often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Yinzhe Wu , Jiahao Huang , Fanwen Wang , Mengze Gao , Congyu Liao , Guang Yang , Kawin Setsompop

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) provides critical insights into the microstructural and connectional organization of the human brain. However, the availability of high-field, open-access datasets that include raw k-space data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Shanshan Wang , Shoujun Yu , Jian Cheng , Sen Jia , Changjun Tie , Jiayu Zhu , Haohao Peng , Yijing Dong , Jianzhong He , Fan Zhang , Yaowen Xing , Xiuqin Jia , Qi Yang , Qiyuan Tian , Hua Guo , Guobin Li , Hairong Zheng

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (D-MRI) is an in-vivo and non-invasive imaging technology to probe anatomical architectures of biological samples. The anatomy of white matter fiber tracts in the brain can be revealed to help…

Applications · Statistics 2023-05-18 Jilei Yang , Seungyong Hwang , Jie Peng

Aggregating multi-subject functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is indispensable for generating valid and general inferences from patterns distributed across human brains. The disparities in anatomical structures and functional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Weida Li , Mingxia Liu , Fang Chen , Daoqiang Zhang

Nonrigid registration is vital to medical image analysis but remains challenging for diffusion MRI (dMRI) due to its high-dimensional, orientation-dependent nature. While classical methods are accurate, they are computationally demanding,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Gianfranco Cortes , Xiaoda Qu , Baba C. Vemuri

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 weighted imaging techniques permit us to infer microstructural detail in biological tissue in vivo and noninvasively. Modern sequences are based on advanced diffusion encoding schemes, allowing probing of more revealing measures…

The structure of grey matter has long been a key focus in neuroscience, as cell morphology varies by type and can be affected by neurological conditions. Understanding these variations is essential for studying brain function and disease.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Charlie Aird-Rossiter , Hui Zhang , Daniel C. Alexander , Derek K. Jones , Marco Palombo

Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is a type of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technique sensitised to the diffusivity of water molecules, offering the capability to inspect tissue microstructures and is the only in-vivo method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Sheng Chen , Zihao Tang , Mariano Cabezas , Xinyi Wang , Arkiev D'Souza , Michael Barnett , Fernando Calamante , Weidong Cai , Chenyu Wang

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) exploits the anisotropic diffusion of water molecules in the brain to enable the estimation of the brain's anatomical fiber tracts at a relatively high resolution. In particular, tractographic…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Yu Jin , Joseph F. JaJa , Rong Chen , Edward H. Herskovits

Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) provides the possibility of estimating the location and course of eloquent structures in the human brain. Knowledge about this is of high importance for preoperative planning of neurosurgical interventions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-03-11 Miriam H. A. Bauer , Jan Egger , Daniela Kuhnt , Sebastiano Barbieri , Jan Klein , Horst K. Hahn , Bernd Freisleben , Christopher Nimsky

This paper presents DDTracking, a novel deep generative framework for diffusion MRI tractography that formulates streamline propagation as a conditional denoising diffusion process. In DDTracking, we introduce a dual-pathway encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yijie Li , Wei Zhang , Xi Zhu , Ye Wu , Yogesh Rathi , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging is a noninvasive imaging technique that can indirectly infer the microstructure of tissues and provide metrics which are subject to normal variability across subjects. Potentially abnormal values or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Samuel St-Jean , Max A. Viergever , Alexander Leemans

Anatomic tracer studies are critical for validating and improving diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography. However, large-scale analysis of data from such studies is hampered by the labor-intensive process of annotating fiber bundles manually on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Kyriaki-Margarita Bintsi , Yaël Balbastre , Jingjing Wu , Julia F. Lehman , Suzanne N. Haber , Anastasia Yendiki

Diffusion weighted MRI (dMRI) provides a non invasive virtual reconstruction of the brain's white matter structures through tractography. Analyzing dMRI measures along the trajectory of white matter bundles can provide a more specific…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-21 Samuel St-Jean , Maxime Chamberland , Max A. Viergever , Alexander Leemans

The purpose of this study is to present and compare three denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) that generate 3D $T_1$-weighted MRI human brain images. Three DDPMs were trained using 80,675 image volumes from 42,406 subjects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Samuel W. Remedios , Aaron Carass , Jerry L. Prince , Blake E. Dewey