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Tractography parcellation classifies streamlines reconstructed from diffusion MRI into anatomically defined fiber tracts for clinical and research applications. However, clinical scans often have incomplete fields of view (FOV) where brain…

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The relationship between brain connections and non-imaging phenotypes is increasingly studied using deep neural networks. However, the local and global properties of brain white matter networks are often overlooked in convolutional network…

The individual course of white matter fiber tracts is an important key for analysis of white matter characteristics in healthy and diseased brains. Uniquely, diffusion-weighted MRI tractography in combination with region-based or…

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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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Tract-specific diffusion measures, as derived from brain diffusion MRI, have been linked to white matter tract structural integrity and neurodegeneration. As a consequence, there is a large interest in the automatic segmentation of white…

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White matter parcellation classifies tractography streamlines into clusters or anatomically meaningful tracts to enable quantification and visualization. Most parcellation methods focus on the deep white matter (DWM), while fewer methods…

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We present Point2SSM, a novel unsupervised learning approach for constructing correspondence-based statistical shape models (SSMs) directly from raw point clouds. SSM is crucial in clinical research, enabling population-level analysis of…

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Tractography algorithms are used extensively to delineate white matter structures, by operating on the voxel-wise information generated through the application of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) or other models to diffusion weighted (DW)…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-05 Richard G. Carson , Alexander Leemans

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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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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Current 3D self-supervised learning methods of 3D scenes face a data desert issue, resulting from the time-consuming and expensive collecting process of 3D scene data. Conversely, 3D shape datasets are easier to collect. Despite this,…

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Diffusion MRI tractography is an advanced imaging technique for quantitative mapping of the brain's structural connectivity. Whole brain tractography (WBT) data contains over hundreds of thousands of individual fiber streamlines (estimated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Fan Zhang , Tengfei Xue , Weidong Cai , Yogesh Rathi , Carl-Fredrik Westin , Lauren J O'Donnell

Registration of diffusion MRI tractography is an essential step for analyzing group similarities and variations in the brain's white matter (WM). Streamline-based registration approaches can leverage the 3D geometric information of fiber…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Junyi Wang , Mubai Du , Ye Wu , Yijie Li , William M. Wells , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

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…

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Deep learning has emerged as a promising approach for learning the nonlinear mapping between diffusion-weighted MR images and tissue parameters, which enables automatic and deep understanding of the brain microstructures. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Wenxin Fan , Jian Cheng , Qiyuan Tian , Ruoyou Wu , Juan Zou , Zan Chen , Shanshan Wang

White matter bundle segmentation is crucial for studying brain structural connectivity, neurosurgical planning, and neurological disorders. White Matter Segmentation remains challenging due to structural similarity in streamlines, subject…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Anoushkrit Goel , Simroop Singh , Ankita Joshi , Ranjeet Ranjan Jha , Chirag Ahuja , Aditya Nigam , Arnav Bhavsar

Determining the shape of 3D objects from high-frequency radar signals is analytically complex but critical for commercial and aerospace applications. Previous deep learning methods have been applied to radar modeling; however, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Neel Sortur , Justin Goodwin , Purvik Patel , Luis Enrique Martinez , Tzofi Klinghoffer , Rajmonda S. Caceres , Robin Walters

Shape plays an important role in computer graphics, offering informative features to convey an object's morphology and functionality. Shape analysis in brain imaging can help interpret structural and functionality correlations of the human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yui Lo , Yuqian Chen , Dongnan Liu , Wan Liu , Leo Zekelman , Fan Zhang , Yogesh Rathi , Nikos Makris , Alexandra J. Golby , Weidong Cai , Lauren J. O'Donnell

Industrial CAD workflows require robust, generalizable 3D geometric representations supporting accuracy and explainability. We introduce Shape, a self-supervised foundation model converting surface meshes into dense per-token embeddings.…

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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)…

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