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Nonrigid registration is vital to medical image analysis but remains challenging for diffusion MRI (dMRI) due to its high-dimensional, orientation-dependent nature. While classical methods are accurate, they are computationally demanding,…

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Diffusion-weighted MRI is increasingly used to study the normal and abnormal development of fetal brain in-utero. Recent studies have shown that dMRI can offer invaluable insights into the neurodevelopmental processes in the fetal stage.…

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is sensitive to microstructural barriers, yet most existing methods either assume impermeable boundaries or estimate voxel-level parameters without recovering explicit interfaces. We present Spinverse, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Prathamesh Pradeep Khole , Mario M. Brenes , Zahra Kais Petiwala , Ehsan Mirafzali , Utkarsh Gupta , Jing-Rebecca Li , Andrada Ianus , Razvan Marinescu

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is the primary imaging modality used to study brain microstructure in vivo. Reliable and computationally efficient parameter inference for common dMRI biophysical models is a challenging inverse problem, due to factors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 William Consagra , Lipeng Ning , Yogesh Rathi

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…

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) and tractography provide means to study the anatomical structures within the white matter of the brain. When studying tractography data across subjects, it is usually necessary to align, i.e. to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-01 Thien Bao Nguyen , Emanuele Olivetti , Paolo Avesani

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

Brain network analysis plays a crucial role in diagnosing and monitoring neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Existing approaches for constructing structural brain networks from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) often…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-30 Xuhang Chen , Michael Kwok-Po Ng , Kim-Fung Tsang , Chi-Man Pun , Shuqiang Wang

Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is a type of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technique sensitised to the diffusivity of water molecules, offering the capability to inspect tissue microstructures and is the only in-vivo method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Sheng Chen , Zihao Tang , Mariano Cabezas , Xinyi Wang , Arkiev D'Souza , Michael Barnett , Fernando Calamante , Weidong Cai , Chenyu Wang

Fiber tractography is a cornerstone of neuroimaging, enabling the detailed mapping of the brain's white matter pathways through diffusion MRI. This is crucial for understanding brain connectivity and function, making it a valuable tool in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Ankita Joshi , Ashutosh Sharma , Anoushkrit Goel , Ranjeet Ranjan Jha , Chirag Ahuja , Arnav Bhavsar , Aditya Nigam

Diffusion MRI is a neuroimaging technique measuring the anatomical structure of tissues. Using diffusion MRI to construct the connections of tissues, known as fiber tracking, is one of the most important uses of diffusion MRI. Many…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-18 Zhou Lan , Brian J Reich

Tractography fiber clustering using diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a crucial strategy for white matter (WM) parcellation. Current methods primarily use the geometric information of fibers (i.e., the spatial trajectories) to group similar fibers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Jin Wang , Bocheng Guo , Yijie Li , Junyi Wang , Yuqian Chen , Jarrett Rushmore , Nikos Makris , Yogesh Rathi , Lauren J O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

White matter structures composed of myelinated axons in the living human brain are primarily studied by diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI). These long-range projections are typically characterized in a two-step process: dMRI is used to estimate…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-09 Matthew Cieslak , Tegan Brennan , Wendy Meiring , Lukas J. Volz , Clint Greene , Alexander Asturias , Subhash Suri , Scott T. Grafton

Models of diffusion MRI within a voxel are useful for making inferences about the properties of the tissue and inferring fiber orientation distribution used by tractography algorithms. A useful model must fit the data accurately. However,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-08 Ariel Rokem , Jason D. Yeatman , Franco Pestilli , Kendrick N. Kay , Aviv Mezer , Stefan van der Walt , Brian A. Wandell

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

Ultra-low-field (ULF) MRI is emerging as an alternative modality to high-field (HF) MRI due to its lower cost, minimal siting requirements, portability, and enhanced accessibility factors that enable large-scale deployment. Although ULF-MRI…

Diffusion weighted MRI (dMRI) provides a non invasive virtual reconstruction of the brain's white matter structures through tractography. Analyzing dMRI measures along the trajectory of white matter bundles can provide a more specific…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-21 Samuel St-Jean , Maxime Chamberland , Max A. Viergever , Alexander Leemans

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging offers unique in vivo sensitivity to tissue microstructure in brain white matter, which undergoes significant changes during development and is compromised in virtually every neurological disorder. Yet,…

Recently, Differentiable Ray Tracing has been successfully applied in the field of wireless communications for learning radio materials or optimizing the transmitter orientation. However, in the frame of gradient based optimization,…

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