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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

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

The state-of-the-art method for automatically segmenting white matter bundles in diffusion-weighted MRI is tractography in conjunction with streamline cluster selection. This process involves long chains of processing steps which are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Jakob Wasserthal , Peter F. Neher , Fabian Isensee , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Haotian Yan , Bocheng Guo , Jianzhong He , Nir A. Sochen , Ofer Pasternak , Lauren J O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

Current brain white matter fiber tracking techniques show a number of problems, including: generating large proportions of streamlines that do not accurately describe the underlying anatomy; extracting streamlines that are not supported by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Jon Haitz Legarreta , Laurent Petit , François Rheault , Guillaume Theaud , Carl Lemaire , Maxime Descoteaux , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

A tractogram is a virtual representation of the brain white matter. It is composed of millions of virtual fibers, encoded as 3D polylines, which approximate the white matter axonal pathways. To date, tractograms are the most accurate white…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Pietro Astolfi , Ruben Verhagen , Laurent Petit , Emanuele Olivetti , Silvio Sarubbo , Jonathan Masci , Davide Boscaini , Paolo Avesani

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-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is widely used to assess the brain white matter. One of the most common computations in dMRI involves cross-subject tract-specific analysis, whereby dMRI-derived biomarkers are compared…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Davood Karimi , Hamza Kebiri , Ali Gholipour

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) disrupts thalamocortical connectivity, contributing to cognitive impairment and post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE). This study presents a novel tractography-based framework that leverages diffusion maps to capture…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-21 Akul Sharma , Anand A. Joshi , Richard M. Leahy

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

The corticospinal tract (CST) is a critically important white matter fiber tract in the human brain that enables control of voluntary movements of the body. Diffusion MRI tractography is the only method that enables the study of the anatomy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jianzhong He , Fan Zhang , Yiang Pan , Yuanjing Feng , Jarrett Rushmore , Erickson Torio , Yogesh Rathi , Nikos Makris , Ron Kikinis , Alexandra J. Golby , Lauren J. O'Donnell

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

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

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

Parcellation of white matter tractography provides anatomical features for disease prediction, anatomical tract segmentation, surgical brain mapping, and non-imaging phenotype classifications. However, parcellation does not always reach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Yui Lo , Yuqian Chen , Fan Zhang , Dongnan Liu , Leo Zekelman , Suheyla Cetin-Karayumak , Yogesh Rathi , Weidong Cai , Lauren J. O'Donnell

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

Our understanding of the human connectome is fundamentally limited by the resolution of diffusion MR images. Reconstructing a connectome's constituent neural pathways with tractography requires following a continuous field of fiber…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tyler Spears , P. Thomas Fletcher

Deep learning approaches for diffusion MRI have so far focused primarily on voxel-based segmentation of lesions or white-matter fiber tracts. A drawback of representing tracts as volumetric labels, rather than sets of streamlines, is that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Christian Ewert , David Kügler , Anastasia Yendiki , Martin Reuter

Doctors and researchers routinely use diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and tractography to visualize the fibrous structure of tissues in the human body. This paper explores the connection of these techniques to the painterly rendering of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Alberto Di Biase

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a widely used method for studying brain white matter development and degeneration. However, standard DTI estimation methods depend on a large number of high-quality measurements. This would require long…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Davood Karimi , Ali Gholipour