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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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\hspace{2mm} Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) of the brain offers unique capabilities including noninvasive probing of tissue microstructure and structural connectivity. It is widely used for clinical assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Davood Karimi , Simon K. Warfield

In Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) or High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI), a tensor field or a spherical function field (e.g., an orientation distribution function field), can be estimated from measured diffusion weighted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Jian Cheng , Peter J. Basser

The anatomical structure of the brain can be observed via non-invasive techniques such as diffusion imaging. However, these are imperfect because they miss connections that are actually known to exist, especially long range…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-02-25 Somwrita Sarkar , Sanjay Chawla , Donna Xu

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

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a novel modality of magnetic resonance imaging that allows noninvasive mapping of the brain's white matter. A particular map derived from DTI measurements is a map of water principal diffusion directions,…

Applications · Statistics 2008-12-18 Armin Schwartzman , Robert F. Dougherty , Jonathan E. Taylor

Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging (NODDI) is an important imaging technology used to evaluate the microstructure of brain tissue, which is of great significance for the discovery and treatment of various neurological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Taohui Xiao , Jian Cheng , Wenxin Fan , Jing Yang , Cheng Li , Enqing Dong , Shanshan Wang

A large number of mathematical models have been proposed to describe the measured signal in diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and infer properties about the white matter microstructure. However, a head-to-head…

Diffusion-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is increasingly used to study the fetal brain in utero. An important computation enabled by dMRI is streamline tractography, which has unique applications such as tract-specific analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Camilo Calixto , Camilo Jaimes , Matheus D. Soldatelli , Simon K. Warfield , Ali Gholipour , Davood Karimi

We present a Bayesian probabilistic model to estimate the brain white matter atlas from high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) data. This model incorporates a shape prior of the white matter anatomy and the likelihood of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-14 Jia Du , Alvina Goh , Anqi Qiu

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) provides crucial insights into the microstructure of the human brain, but it can be time-consuming to acquire compared to more readily available T1-weighted (T1w) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shaorong Zhang , Tamoghna Chattopadhyay , Sophia I. Thomopoulos , Jose-Luis Ambite , Paul M. Thompson , Greg Ver Steeg

We propose an image-conditioned diffusion model to estimate high angular resolution diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) from a low angular resolution acquisition. Our model, which we call QID$^2$, takes as input a set of low angular resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Zijian Chen , Jueqi Wang , Archana Venkataraman

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 Weighted Imaging (DWI) is an advanced imaging technique commonly used in neuroscience and neurological clinical research through a Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) model. Volumetric scalar metrics including fractional anisotropy,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Zihao Tang , Xinyi Wang , Lihaowen Zhu , Mariano Cabezas , Dongnan Liu , Michael Barnett , Weidong Cai , Chengyu Wang

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a relatively modern technique used to study tissue microstructure in a non-invasive way. Non-Gaussian diffusion representation is related to the restricted diffusion and can provide information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Tomasz Pieciak , Maryam Afzali , Fabian Bogusz , Aja-Fernández , Derek K. Jones

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a critical imaging method for capturing and modeling tissue microarchitecture at a millimeter scale. A common practice to model the measured DW-MRI signal is via fiber orientation…

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

In this paper, we propose a novel large deformation diffeomorphic registration algorithm to align high angular resolution diffusion images (HARDI) characterized by orientation distribution functions (ODFs). Our proposed algorithm seeks an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-07-26 Jia Du , Alvina Goh , Anqi Qiu

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

We present a novel way to model diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) datasets, that benefits from the structural coherence of the human brain while only using data from a single subject. Current methods model the dMRI signal in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Tom Hendriks , Anna Vilanova , Maxime Chamberland