Abstract
In connectomics, tractography involves tracing connections across gray-white matter boundaries in gyral blades of complex cortical convolutions. To date, most tractography algorithms exhibit gyral bias with fiber streamlines preferentially terminating at gyral crowns rather than sulcal banks or fundi. In this work, we will demonstrate that a multi-tissue global estimation framework of the asymmetric fiber orientation distribution function (AFODF) will mitigate the effects of gyral bias and will allow fiber streamlines at gyral blades to make sharper turns into the cortical gray matter. This is validated using in-vivo data from the Human Connectome Project (HCP), showing that, in a typical gyral blade with high curvature, the fiber streamlines estimated using AFODFs bend more naturally into the cortex than FODFs. Furthermore, we show that AFODF tractography results in better cortico-cortical connectivity.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2018 - 21st International Conference, 2018, Proceedings |
Editors | Alejandro F. Frangi, Christos Davatzikos, Gabor Fichtinger, Carlos Alberola-López, Julia A. Schnabel |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Pages | 45-52 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030009304 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Event | 21st International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018 - Granada, Spain Duration: 2018 Sept 16 → 2018 Sept 20 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 11072 LNCS |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Other
Other | 21st International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018 |
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Country/Territory | Spain |
City | Granada |
Period | 18/9/16 → 18/9/20 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- General Computer Science