Title
3D curve inference for diffusion MRI regularization and fibre tractography.
Abstract
We develop a differential geometric framework for regularizing diffusion MRI data. The key idea is to model white matter fibres as 3D space curves and to then extend Parent and Zucker’s 2D curve inference approach [Parent, P., Zucker, S., 1989. Trace inference, curvature consistency, and curve detection. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 11, 823–839] by using a notion of co-helicity to indicate compatibility between fibre orientations at each voxel with those in a local neighborhood. We argue that this provides several advantages over earlier regularization methods. We validate the approach quantitatively on a biological phantom and on synthetic data, and qualitatively on data acquired in vivo from a human brain. We also demonstrate the use of the technique to improve the performance of a fibre tracking algorithm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1016/j.media.2006.06.009
Medical Image Analysis
Keywords
Field
DocType
Diffusion MRI,Diffusion tensor imaging,High angular resolution diffusion imaging,Regularization,Curve inference,Fibre Tractography
Voxel,Computer vision,Diffusion MRI,Curvature,Pattern recognition,Inference,Imaging phantom,Synthetic data,Regularization (mathematics),Artificial intelligence,Tractography,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
5
1361-8415
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
30
1.72
21
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter Savadjiev114412.06
Jennifer S W Campbell225518.91
G Bruce Pike3699132.31
Kaleem Siddiqi43259242.07