Hierarchical Microstructure Informed Tractography.
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serval:BIB_EB0C3A47C2C0
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
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Title
Hierarchical Microstructure Informed Tractography.
Journal
Brain connectivity
ISSN
2158-0022 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
2158-0014
Publication state
Published
Issued date
03/2021
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
11
Number
2
Pages
75-88
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Publication Status: ppublish
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Background: Tractography uses diffusion magnetic resonance imaging to noninvasively infer the macroscopic pathways of white matter fibers and it is the only available technique to probe in vivo the structural connectivity of the brain. However, despite this unique and compelling ability and its wide range of possible neurological applications, tractography is still limited, lacks anatomical precision, and suffers from a serious sensitivity/specificity trade-off. For this reason, in the past few years, tractography postprocessing techniques have emerged and proved effective for improving the quality of the reconstructions. Among them, the Convex Optimization Modeling for Microstructure Informed Tractography formulation allows incorporating the anatomical prior that fibers are naturally organized in fascicles, and has obtained exceptional results in increasing the accuracy of the estimated tractograms. Methods: We propose an extension to this idea and introduce a multilevel grouping of the streamlines to capture the white matter arrangement in fascicles and subfascicles. We tested our proposed formulation in synthetic and in vivo data. Results: Our experiments show that using multiple levels allows considering information about the white matter organization more adequately and helps to improve further the accuracy of the resulting tractograms. Conclusion: This new formulation represents a further important step toward a more accurate structural connectivity estimation.
Keywords
Brain/diagnostic imaging, Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, White Matter/diagnostic imaging, diffusion MRI, hierarchical organization, microstructure informed tractography, tractography
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Web of science
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