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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

Tractograms are virtual representations of the white matter fibers of the brain. They are of primary interest for tasks like presurgical planning, and investigation of neuroplasticity or brain disorders. Each tractogram is composed of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-10 Pietro Astolfi , Ruben Verhagen , Laurent Petit , Emanuele Olivetti , Jonathan Masci , Davide Boscaini , Paolo Avesani

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

Diffusion MRI tractography is an important tool for identifying and analyzing the intracranial course of cranial nerves (CNs). However, the complex environment of the skull base leads to ambiguous spatial correspondence between diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Lei Xie , Qingrun Zeng , Huajun Zhou , Guoqiang Xie , Mingchu Li , Jiahao Huang , Jianan Cui , Hao Chen , Yuanjing Feng

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…

Brain imaging studies have demonstrated that diffusion MRI tractography geometric shape descriptors can inform the study of the brain's white matter pathways and their relationship to brain function. In this work, we investigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yui Lo , Yuqian Chen , Dongnan Liu , Jon Haitz Legarreta , Leo Zekelman , Fan Zhang , Jarrett Rushmore , Yogesh Rathi , Nikos Makris , Alexandra J. Golby , Weidong Cai , Lauren J. O'Donnell

Trajectory data mining is crucial for smart city management. However, collecting large-scale trajectory datasets is challenging due to factors such as commercial conflicts and privacy regulations. Therefore, we urgently need trajectory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jingyuan Wang , Yujing Lin , Yudong Li

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is an advanced imaging technique characterizing tissue microstructure and white matter structural connectivity of the human brain. The demand for high-quality dMRI data is growing, driven by the need for better…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Xi Zhu , Wei Zhang , Yijie Li , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

The study of brain differences across Eastern and Western populations provides vital insights for understanding potential cultural and genetic influences on cognition and mental health. Diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography is an important tool…

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

Fiber tracking based on diffusion weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) allows for noninvasive reconstruction of fiber bundles in the human brain. In this chapter, we discuss sources of error and uncertainty in this technique, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-07-15 Thomas Schultz , Anna Vilanova , Ralph Brecheisen , Gordon Kindlmann

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

Tractography is typically performed for each subject using the diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data in its native subject space rather than in some space common to the entire study cohort. Despite performing tractography on a population…

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

Effective trajectory stitching for long-horizon planning is a significant challenge in robotic decision-making. While diffusion models have shown promise in planning, they are limited to solving tasks similar to those seen in their training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yunhao Luo , Utkarsh A. Mishra , Yilun Du , Danfei Xu

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

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

One of the main issues of the current tractography methods is their high false-positive rate. Tractogram filtering is an option to remove false-positive streamlines from tractography data in a post-processing step. In this paper, we train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Daniel Jörgens , Pierre-Marc Jodoin , Maxime Descoteaux , Rodrigo Moreno

Diffusion tractography in brain connectomics often involves tracing axonal trajectories across gray-white matter boundaries in gyral blades of complex cortical convolutions. To date, gyral bias is observed in most tractography algorithms…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-15 Ye Wu , Yoonmi Hong , Yuanjing Feng , Dinggang Shen , Pew-Thian Yap

White matter (WM) tract segmentation is a crucial step for brain connectivity studies. It is performed on diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI), and deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved promising segmentation accuracy. Existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Wan Liu , Chuyang Ye