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Tractography plays a pivotal role in the non-invasive reconstruction of white matter fiber pathways, providing vital information on brain connectivity and supporting precise neurosurgical planning. Although traditional methods relied mainly…

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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

We propose a new method, Patch-CNN, for diffusion tensor (DT) estimation from only six-direction diffusion weighted images (DWI). Deep learning-based methods have been recently proposed for dMRI parameter estimation, using either voxel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Tobias Goodwin-Allcock , Ting Gong , Robert Gray , Parashkev Nachev , Hui Zhang

Segmentation of brain structures from MRI is crucial for evaluating brain morphology, yet existing CNN and transformer-based methods struggle to delineate complex structures accurately. While current diffusion models have shown promise in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Qilong Xing , Zikai Song , Yuteng Ye , Yuke Chen , Youjia Zhang , Na Feng , Junqing Yu , Wei Yang

White matter bundle segmentation is a cornerstone of modern tractography to study the brain's structural connectivity in domains such as neurological disorders, neurosurgery, and aging. In this study, we present FIESTA (FIbEr Segmentation…

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…

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 MRI (dMRI) tractography enables in vivo mapping of brain structural connections, but traditional connectome generation is time-consuming and requires gray matter parcellation, posing challenges for large-scale studies. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Marcus J. Vroemen , Yuqian Chen , Yui Lo , Tengfei Xue , Weidong Cai , Fan Zhang , Josien P. W. Pluim , Lauren J. O'Donnell

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

As tractography datasets continue to grow in size, there is a need for improved visualization methods that can capture structural patterns occurring in large tractography datasets. Transparency is an increasingly important aspect of finding…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Besm Osman , Mestiez Pereira , Huub van de Wetering , Maxime Chamberland

This paper presents DDTracking, a novel deep generative framework for diffusion MRI tractography that formulates streamline propagation as a conditional denoising diffusion process. In DDTracking, we introduce a dual-pathway encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yijie Li , Wei Zhang , Xi Zhu , Ye Wu , Yogesh Rathi , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

In the present work, we use information theory to understand the empirical convergence rate of tractography, a widely-used approach to reconstruct anatomical fiber pathways in the living brain. Based on diffusion MRI data, tractography is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-13 Daniel Moyer , Paul M. Thompson , Greg Ver Steeg

Fiber tractography on diffusion imaging data offers rich potential for describing white matter pathways in the human brain, but characterizing the spatial organization in these large and complex data sets remains a challenge. We show that…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-18 Brian P. Kent , Alessandro Rinaldo , Fang-Cheng Yeh , Timothy Verstynen

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography is currently the only method for in vivo mapping of the brain's white matter (WM) connections. Tractometry is an advanced tractography analysis technique for along-tract profiling to investigate the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-29 Ruixi Zheng , Wei Zhang , Yijie Li , Xi Zhu , Zhou Lan , Jarrett Rushmore , Yogesh Rathi , Nikos Makris , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

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

We propose two strategies to improve the quality of tractography results computed from diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) data. Both methods are based on the same PDE framework, defined in the coupled space of positions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-08 J. M. Portegies , R. H. J. Fick , G. R. Sanguinetti , S. P. L. Meesters , G. Girard , R. Duits

Multi-compartment modeling of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging measurements is necessary for accurate brain connectivity analysis. Existing methods for estimating the number and orientations of fascicles in an imaging voxel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 Davood Karimi , Lana Vasung , Camilo Jaimes , Fedel Machado-Rivas , Shadab Khan , Simon K. Warfield , Ali Gholipour

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…

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

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