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The shape of the brain's white matter connections is relatively unexplored in diffusion MRI tractography analysis. While it is known that tract shape varies in populations and across the human lifespan, it is unknown if the variability in…

While the major white matter tracts are of great interest to numerous studies in neuroscience and medicine, their manual dissection in larger cohorts from diffusion MRI tractograms is time-consuming, requires expert knowledge and is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Jakob Wasserthal , Peter F. Neher , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is the only non-invasive tool for studying white matter tracts and structural connectivity of the brain. These assessments rely heavily on tractography techniques, which reconstruct…

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White matter tract segmentation is crucial for studying brain structural connectivity and neurosurgical planning. However, segmentation remains challenging due to issues like class imbalance between major and minor tracts, structural…

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Neuroimaging-based prediction of neurocognitive measures is valuable for studying how the brain's structure relates to cognitive function. However, the accuracy of prediction using popular linear regression models is relatively low. We…

Tractography from high-dimensional diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) data allows brain's structural connectivity analysis. Recent dMRI studies aim to compare connectivity patterns across subject groups and disease populations to…

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

We present a geometric framework for aligning white matter fiber tracts. By registering fiber tracts between brains, one expects to see overlap of anatomical structures that often provide meaningful comparisons across subjects. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Andrew Lizarraga , David Lee , Antoni Kubicki , Ashish Sahib , Elvis Nunez , Katherine Narr , Shantanu H. Joshi

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

White matter structures composed of myelinated axons in the living human brain are primarily studied by diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI). These long-range projections are typically characterized in a two-step process: dMRI is used to estimate…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-09 Matthew Cieslak , Tegan Brennan , Wendy Meiring , Lukas J. Volz , Clint Greene , Alexander Asturias , Subhash Suri , Scott T. Grafton

Accurately identifying white matter tracts in medical images is essential for various applications, including surgery planning and tract-specific analysis. Supervised machine learning models have reached state-of-the-art solving this task…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 Robin Peretzke , Klaus Maier-Hein , Jonas Bohn , Yannick Kirchhoff , Saikat Roy , Sabrina Oberli-Palma , Daniela Becker , Pavlina Lenga , Peter Neher

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…

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Neuroimaging measures of the brain's white matter connections can enable the prediction of non-imaging phenotypes, such as demographic and cognitive measures. Existing works have investigated traditional microstructure and connectivity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Wan Liu , Yuqian Chen , Chuyang Ye , Nikos Makris , Yogesh Rathi , Weidong Cai , Fan Zhang , Lauren J. O'Donnell

Superficial white matter (SWM) has been less studied than long-range connections despite being of interest to clinical research, andfew tractography parcellation methods have been adapted to SWM. Here, we propose an efficient geometry-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Nabil Vindas , Nicole Labra Avila , Fan Zhang , Tengfei Xue , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Jean-François Mangin

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) data allow to reconstruct the 3D pathways of axons within the white matter of the brain as a tractography. The analysis of tractographies has drawn attention from the machine learning and pattern…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-03 Emanuele Olivetti , Thien Bao Nguyen , Paolo Avesani

The brain white matter consists of a set of tracts that connect distinct regions of the brain. Segmentation of these tracts is often needed for clinical and research studies. Diffusion-weighted MRI offers unique contrast to delineate these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Hamza Kebiri , Ali Gholipour , Meritxell Bach Cuadra , Davood Karimi

The structure and variability of the brain's connections can be investigated via prediction of non-imaging phenotypes using neural networks. However, known neuroanatomical relationships between input features are generally ignored in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-06 Yuqian Chen , Fan Zhang , Leo R. Zekelman , Tengfei Xue , Chaoyi Zhang , Yang Song , Nikos Makris , Yogesh Rathi , Weidong Cai , Lauren J. O'Donnell

In structural brain networks the connections of interest consist of white-matter fibre bundles between spatially segregated brain regions. The presence, location and orientation of these white matter tracts can be derived using diffusion…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2012-02-09 M. Hinne , T. Heskes , M. A. J. van Gerven

Identification of white matter fiber tracts of the brain is crucial for delineating the tumor border during neurosurgery. A custom-built Mueller polarimeter was used in reflection configuration for the wide-field imaging of thick section of…

The segregation of brain fiber tractography data into distinct and anatomically meaningful clusters can help to comprehend the complex brain structure and early investigation and management of various neural disorders. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Tushar Gupta , Shreyas Malakarjun Patil , Mukkaram Tailor , Daksh Thapar , Aditya Nigam