Tractography Category
Convolutional-recurrent neural networks approximate diffusion tractography from T1-weighted MRI and associated anatomical context
May. 29, 2023—Leon Y. Cai, Ho Hin Lee, Nancy R. Newlin, Cailey I. Kerley, Praitayini Kanakaraj, Qi Yang, Graham W. Johnson, Daniel Moyer, Kurt G. Schilling, François Rheault, and Bennett A. Landman Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.25.530046v2 Code: https://github.com/MASILab/cornn_tractography Abstract Diffusion MRI (dMRI) streamline tractography is the gold-standard for in vivo estimation of white matter (WM) pathways in the brain. However, the...
Implementation considerations for deep learning with diffusion MRI streamline tractography
May. 29, 2023—Leon Y. Cai, Ho Hin Lee, Nancy R. Newlin, Michael E. Kim, Daniel Moyer, Francois Rheault, Kurt G. Schilling, and Bennett A. Landman Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.03.535465v1 Code: https://github.com/MASILab/STrUDeL Abstract One area of medical imaging that has recently experienced innovative deep learning advances is diffusion MRI (dMRI) streamline tractography with recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Unlike traditional imaging studies which...
Aging and white matter microstructure and macrostructure: a longitudinal multi-site diffusion MRI study of 1218 participants
Dec. 13, 2022—Kurt G Schilling, Derek Archer, Fang-Cheng Yeh, Francois Rheault, Leon Cai, Colin Hansen, Qi Yang, Karthik Ramdass, Andrea Shafer, Susan Resnick, Kimberly R. Pechman, Katherine A. Gifford, Timothy J. Hohman, Angela Jefferson, Adam W Anderson, Hakmook Kang, Bennett A Landman. “Aging and white matter microstructure and macrostructure: a longitudinal multi-site diffusion MRI study of 1218 participants.” Brain...
Prevalence of white matter pathways coming into a single diffusion MRI voxel orientation: the bottleneck issue in tractography
Dec. 13, 2022—Kurt G. Schilling, Chantal M.W. Tax, Francois Rheault, Bennett Landman, Adam Anderson, Maxime Descoteaux*, Laurent Petit*. “Prevalence of white matter pathways coming into a single diffusion MRI voxel orientation: the bottleneck issue in tractography”. Human Brain Mapping 43(4), 1196-1213. (2022) Full Text Abstract Characterizing and understanding the limitations of diffusion MRI fiber tractography is a...
Tractography dissection variability: what happens when 42 groups dissect 14 white matter bundles on the same dataset?
Dec. 13, 2022—Kurt G Schilling, Francois Rheault, Laurent Petit, Colin B Hansen, Vishwesh Nath, Fang-Cheng Yeh, Gabriel Girard, Muhamed Barakovic, Jonathan Rafael-Patino, Thomas Yu, Elda Fischi-Gomez, Marco Pizzolato, Riccardo Galbusera, Mario Ocampo-Pineda, Simona Schiavi, Erick J Canales-Rodriguez, Alessandro Daducci, Cristina Granziera, Giorgio Innocenti, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Laura Mancini, Stephen Wastling, Sirio Cocozza, Maria Petracca, Giuseppe Pontillo, Matteo Mancini,...
The influence of regions of interest on tractography virtual dissection protocols: general principles to learn and to follow
Jul. 26, 2022—Rheault, Francois, Kurt G. Schilling, Sami Obaid, John P. Begnoche, Laurie E. Cutting, Maxime Descoteaux, Bennett A. Landman, and Laurent Petit. “The influence of regions of interest on tractography virtual dissection protocols: general principles to learn and to follow.” Brain Structure and Function (2022): 1-17. Full Text Abstract Purpose: Efficient communication across fields of research is challenging, especially...
Joint independent component analysis for hypothesizing spatiotemporal relationships between longitudinal gray and white matter changes in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease
Dec. 10, 2021—Leon Y. Cai, Francois Rheault, Cailey I. Kerley, Katherine S. Aboud, Lori L. Beason-Held, Andrea T. Shafer, Susan M. Resnick, Lori C. Jordan, Adam W. Anderson, Kurt G. Schilling, and Bennett A. Landman Abstract Characterizing relationships between gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) in early Alzheimer’s disease (AD) would improve understanding of how and...
TractEM: Evaluation of protocols for deterministic tractography white matter atlas
Dec. 3, 2021—Rheault, Francois, Roza G. Bayrak, Xuan Wang, Kurt G. Schilling, Jasmine M. Greer, Colin B. Hansen, Cailey Kerley et al. “TractEM: Evaluation of protocols for deterministic tractography white matter atlas.” Magnetic Resonance Imaging 85 (2022): 44-56. Full Text Abstract Purpose: One of the key challenges of the manual delineation of white matter pathways is human-rater’s subjectivity in labeling....
PreQual: An automated pipeline for integrated preprocessing and quality assurance of diffusion weighted MRI images
Jun. 23, 2021—Leon Y. Cai, Qi Yang, Colin B. Hansen, Vishwesh Nath, Karthik Ramadass, Graham W. Johnson, Benjamin N. Conrad, Brian D. Boyd, John P. Begnoche, Lori L. Beason-Held, Andrea T. Shafer, Susan M. Resnick, Warren D. Taylor, Gavin R. Price, Victoria L. Morgan, Baxter P. Rogers, Kurt G. Schilling, Bennett A. Landman. PreQual: An automated pipeline...
Pandora: 4-D White Matter Bundle Population-Based Atlases Derived from Diffusion MRI Fiber Tractography
Nov. 29, 2020—Colin B. Hansen, Qi Yang, Ilwoo Lyu, Francois Rheault, Cailey Kerley, Bramsh Qamar Chandio, Shreyas Fadnavis, Owen Williams, Andrea T. Shafer, Susan M. Resnick, David H. Zald, Laurie E. Cutting, Warren D. Taylor, Brian Boyd, Eleftherios Garyfallidis, Adam W. Anderson, Maxime Descoteaux, Bennett A. Landman, Kurt G. Schilling. Pandora: 4-D White Matter Bundle Population-Based Atlases Derived from Diffusion MRI Fiber Tractography. Neuroinform (2020). Full Text Abstract Brain atlases have proven to be valuable neuroscience tools for...