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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…

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Recently deep learning has been playing a major role in the field of computer vision. One of its applications is the reduction of human judgment in the diagnosis of diseases. Especially, brain tumor diagnosis requires high accuracy, where…

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A brain tumor, whether benign or malignant, can potentially be life threatening and requires painstaking efforts in order to identify the type, origin and location, let alone cure one. Manual segmentation by medical specialists can be…

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Brain tumor segmentation is one of the most challenging problems in medical image analysis. The goal of brain tumor segmentation is to generate accurate delineation of brain tumor regions. In recent years, deep learning methods have shown…

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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

Cortical thickness measurements from magnetic resonance imaging, an important biomarker in many neurodegenerative and neurological disorders, are derived by many tools from an initial voxel-wise tissue segmentation. White matter (WM)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Vinzenz Uhr , Ivan Diaz , Christian Rummel , Richard McKinley

Segmentation has been a major task in neuroimaging. A large number of automated methods have been developed for segmenting healthy and diseased brain tissues. In recent years, deep learning techniques have attracted a lot of attention as a…

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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

Medical images used in clinical practice are heterogeneous and not the same quality as scans studied in academic research. Preprocessing breaks down in extreme cases when anatomy, artifacts, or imaging parameters are unusual or protocols…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi , Mads Nielsen

Accurate segmentation of brain tissues such as gray matter and white matter from magnetic resonance imaging is essential for studying brain anatomy, diagnosing neurological disorders, and monitoring disease progression. Traditional methods,…

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Streamline classification is essential to identify anatomically meaningful white matter tracts from diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography. However, current streamline classification methods rely primarily on the geometric features of the…

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Segmenting deep brain structures from magnetic resonance images is important for patient diagnosis, surgical planning, and research. Most current state-of-the-art solutions follow a segmentation-by-registration approach, where subject MRIs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-20 Mehri Baniasadi , Mikkel V. Petersen , Jorge Goncalves , Andreas Horn , Vanja Vlasov , Frank Hertel , Andreas Husch

White matter tract integrity (WMTI) can characterize brain microstructure in areas with highly aligned fiber bundles. Several WMTI biomarkers have now been validated against microscopy and provided promising results in studies of brain…

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…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved stateof-the-art performance for white matter (WM) tract segmentation based on diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI). These CNNs require a large number of manual delineations of the WM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Qi Lu , Chuyang Ye

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) provides a distinctive means to probe the microstructural architecture of living tissue, facilitating applications such as brain connectivity analysis, modeling across multiple conditions, and the estimation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Jongyeon Yoon , Elyssa M. McMaster , Michael E. Kim , Gaurav Rudravaram , Kurt G. Schilling , Bennett A. Landman , Daniel Moyer

Accurate brain parcellation in diffusion MRI (dMRI) space is essential for advanced neuroimaging analyses. However, most existing approaches rely on anatomical MRI for segmentation and inter-modality registration, a process that can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Yousef Sadegheih , Dorit Merhof

Segmentation and quantification of white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are of great importance in studying and understanding various neurological and geriatric disorders. Although automatic methods have been proposed for WMH segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Dakai Jin , Ziyue Xu , Adam P. Harrison , Daniel J. Mollura

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)…

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Segmentation of focal (localized) brain pathologies such as brain tumors and brain lesions caused by multiple sclerosis and ischemic strokes are necessary for medical diagnosis, surgical planning and disease development as well as other…

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