MR diffusion-based inference of a fiber bundle model from a population of subjects

Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2005;8(Pt 1):196-204. doi: 10.1007/11566465_25.

Abstract

This paper proposes a method to infer a high level model of the white matter organization from a population of subjects using MR diffusion imaging. This method takes as input for each subject a set of trajectories stemming from any tracking algorithm. Then the inference results from two nested clustering stages. The first clustering converts each individual set of trajectories into a set of bundles supposed to represent large white matter pathways. The second clustering matches these bundles across subjects in order to provide a list of candidates for the bundle model. The method is applied on a population of eleven subjects and leads to the inference of 17 such candidates.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence*
  • Brain / cytology*
  • Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Humans
  • Image Enhancement / methods*
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional / methods
  • Nerve Fibers, Myelinated / ultrastructure*
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated / methods*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity