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Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is currently the only tool for noninvasively imaging the brain's white matter tracts. The fiber orientation (FO) is a key feature computed from dMRI for fiber tract reconstruction. Because the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Chuyang Ye , Jerry L. Prince

Processing of Diffusion MRI data obtained from High Angular Resolution measurements consists of a series of steps, starting with the estimation of an orientation distribution function (ODF), which is then used as input for e.g. tractography…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-23 T. Hohage , C. Rügge

Super-resolution is widely used in medical imaging to enhance low-quality data, reducing scan time and improving abnormality detection. Conventional super-resolution approaches typically rely on paired datasets of downsampled and original…

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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

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

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

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 MR imaging (DWI) is the only method we currently have to measure connections between different parts of the human brain in vivo. To elucidate the structure of these connections, algorithms for tracking bundles of axonal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-05 Charles Zheng , Franco Pestilli , Ariel Rokem

Fiber orientation distributions (FODs) is a popular model to represent the diffusion MRI (dMRI) data. However, imaging artifacts such as susceptibility-induced distortion in dMRI can cause signal loss and lead to the corrupted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Shuo Huang , Lujia Zhong , Yonggang Shi

Accurate local fiber orientation distribution (FOD) modeling based on diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) capable of resolving complex fiber configurations benefits from specific acquisition protocols that sample a high number of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Oeslle Lucena , Sjoerd B. Vos , Vejay Vakharia , John Duncan , Keyoumars Ashkan , Rachel Sparks , Sebastien Ourselin

Fibre orientation distribution (FOD) reconstruction using deep learning has the potential to produce accurate FODs from a reduced number of diffusion-weighted images (DWIs), decreasing total imaging time. Diffusion acquisition invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 J Bartlett , C E Davey , L A Johnston , J Duan

Early and accurate assessment of brain microstructure using diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is crucial for identifying neurodevelopmental disorders in neonates, but remains challenging due to low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Haykel Snoussi , Davood Karimi

Constrained Spherical Deconvolution (CSD) is widely used to estimate the white matter fiber orientation distribution (FOD) from diffusion MRI data. Its angular resolution depends on the maximum spherical harmonic order ($l_{max}$): low…

Diffusion tractography is routinely used to study white matter architecture and brain connectivity in vivo. A key step for successful tractography of neuronal tracts is the correct identification of tract directions in each voxel. Here we…

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

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a crucial non-invasive technique for exploring the microstructure of the living human brain. Traditional hand-crafted and model-based tissue microstructure reconstruction methods often require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Xinrui Ma , Jian Cheng , Wenxin Fan , Ruoyou Wu , Yongquan Ye , Shanshan Wang

Identifying and characterizing brain fiber bundles can help to understand many diseases and conditions. An important step in this process is the estimation of fiber orientations using Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DW-MRI).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Mateus Oliveira da Silva , Caio Pinheiro Santana , Diedre Santos do Carmo , Letícia Rittner

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

Axons in white matter have been shown to have varying geometries within a bundle using ex vivo imaging techniques, but what does this mean for diffusion MRI (dMRI) based spherical deconvolution (SD)? SD attempts to estimate the fibre…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Ross Callaghan , Daniel C. Alexander , Marco Palombo , Hui Zhang

Fiber tractography is an important tool of computational neuroscience that enables reconstructing the spatial connectivity and organization of white matter of the brain. Fiber tractography takes advantage of diffusion Magnetic Resonance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Tomer Weiss , Sanketh Vedula , Ortal Senouf , Oleg Michailovich , AlexBronstein