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Our understanding of the human connectome is fundamentally limited by the resolution of diffusion MR images. Reconstructing a connectome's constituent neural pathways with tractography requires following a continuous field of fiber…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tyler Spears , P. Thomas Fletcher

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging is an imaging technology designed to probe anatomical architectures of biological samples in an in vivo and non-invasive manner through measuring water diffusion. The contribution of this paper is…

Tractography is typically performed for each subject using the diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data in its native subject space rather than in some space common to the entire study cohort. Despite performing tractography on a population…

Accurate segmentation of ischemic stroke lesions from diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for clinical decision-making and outcome assessment. Diffusion-Weighted Imaging (DWI) and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Muhammad Usman , Azka Rehman , Muhammad Mutti Ur Rehman , Abd Ur Rehman , Muhammad Umar Farooq

Purpose: Diffusion weighted MRI (dMRI) and its models of neural structure provide insight into human brain organization and variations in white matter. A recent study by McMaster, et al. showed that complex graph measures of the connectome,…

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for generative modelling of images. In this paper, we present a novel semantic segmentation method based on diffusion models. By modifying the training and sampling scheme, we show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Julia Wolleb , Robin Sandkühler , Florentin Bieder , Philippe Valmaggia , Philippe C. Cattin

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a non-invasive way of imaging white matter tracts in the human brain. DW-MRIs are usually acquired using echo-planar imaging (EPI) with high gradient fields, which could introduce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Zhangxing Bian , Muhan Shao , Aaron Carass , Jerry L. Prince

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

White matter tractography is an advanced neuroimaging technique that reconstructs the 3D white matter pathways of the brain from diffusion MRI data. It can be framed as a pathfinding problem aiming to infer neural fiber trajectories from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Itzik Waizman , Yakov Gusakov , Itay Benou , Tammy Riklin Raviv

Tractography is the process of inferring the trajectories of white-matter pathways in the brain from diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI). Local tractography methods, which construct streamlines by following local fiber orientation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Alec Sargood , Lemuel Puglisi , Elinor Thompson , Mirco Musolesi , Daniel C. Alexander

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) and tractography provide means to study the anatomical structures within the white matter of the brain. When studying tractography data across subjects, it is usually necessary to align, i.e. to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-01 Thien Bao Nguyen , Emanuele Olivetti , Paolo Avesani

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…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-26 Fan Zhang , Alessandro Daducci , Yong He , Simona Schiavi , Caio Seguin , Robert Smith , Chun-Hung Yeh , Tengda Zhao , Lauren J. O'Donnell

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

In this work, we explore the various Brain Neuron tracking techniques, which is one of the most significant applications of Diffusion Tensor Imaging. Tractography provides us with a non-invasive method to analyze underlying tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Nandakishore Puttashamachar , Ulas Bagci

Doctors and researchers routinely use diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and tractography to visualize the fibrous structure of tissues in the human body. This paper explores the connection of these techniques to the painterly rendering of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Alberto Di Biase

Purpose: In diffusion MRI (dMRI), the volumetric and bundle analyses of whole-brain tissue microstructure and connectivity can be severely impeded by an incomplete field-of-view (FOV). This work aims to develop a method for imputing the…

Understanding the morphological structure of medical images and precisely segmenting the region of interest or abnormality is an important task that can assist in diagnosis. However, the unique properties of medical imaging make clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sungmin Kang , Jaeha Song , Jihie Kim

Neuroanatomical segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain is a prerequisite for volume, thickness and shape measurements. This work introduces a new highly accurate and versatile method based on 3D convolutional neural…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-07 Philip Novosad , Vladimir Fonov , D. Louis Collins

Purpose: Conventional automated segmentation of the head anatomy in MRI distinguishes different brain and non-brain tissues based on image intensities and prior tissue probability maps (TPM). This works well for normal head anatomies, but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Lukas Hirsch , Yu Huang , Lucas C Parra

Diffusion MRI tractography is an advanced imaging technique that enables in vivo mapping of the brain's white matter connections. White matter parcellation classifies tractography streamlines into clusters or anatomically meaningful tracts.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-25 Tengfei Xue , Fan Zhang , Chaoyi Zhang , Yuqian Chen , Yang Song , Alexandra J. Golby , Nikos Makris , Yogesh Rathi , Weidong Cai , Lauren J. O'Donnell