Diffusion MRI fiber tractography of the brain

B Jeurissen, M Descoteaux, S Mori… - NMR in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The ability of fiber tractography to delineate non‐invasively the white matter fiber pathways
of the brain raises possibilities for clinical applications and offers enormous potential for …

Recognition of white matter bundles using local and global streamline-based registration and clustering

E Garyfallidis, MA Côté, F Rheault, J Sidhu, J Hau… - NeuroImage, 2018 - Elsevier
Virtual dissection of diffusion MRI tractograms is cumbersome and needs extensive
knowledge of white matter anatomy. This virtual dissection often requires several inclusion …

[HTML][HTML] TractSeg-Fast and accurate white matter tract segmentation

J Wasserthal, P Neher, KH Maier-Hein - NeuroImage, 2018 - Elsevier
The individual course of white matter fiber tracts is an important factor for analysis of white
matter characteristics in healthy and diseased brains. Diffusion-weighted MRI tractography …

Multi-branch convolutional neural network for multiple sclerosis lesion segmentation

S Aslani, M Dayan, L Storelli, M Filippi, V Murino… - NeuroImage, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present an automated approach for segmenting multiple sclerosis (MS)
lesions from multi-modal brain magnetic resonance images. Our method is based on a deep …

Bundle analytics, a computational framework for investigating the shapes and profiles of brain pathways across populations

BQ Chandio, SL Risacher, F Pestilli, D Bullock… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Tractography has created new horizons for researchers to study brain connectivity in vivo.
However, tractography is an advanced and challenging method that has not been used so …

[HTML][HTML] A test-retest study on Parkinson's PPMI dataset yields statistically significant white matter fascicles

M Cousineau, PM Jodoin, E Garyfallidis, MA Côté… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work, we propose a diffusion MRI protocol for mining Parkinson's disease diffusion
MRI datasets and recover robust disease-specific biomarkers. Using advanced high angular …

[HTML][HTML] Dimensionality reduction of diffusion MRI measures for improved tractometry of the human brain

M Chamberland, EP Raven, S Genc, K Duffy… - NeuroImage, 2019 - Elsevier
Various diffusion MRI (dMRI) measures have been proposed for characterising tissue
microstructure over the last 15 years. Despite the growing number of experiments using …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the reliability of human brain white matter tractometry

J Kruper, JD Yeatman, A Richie-Halford, D Bloom… - Aperture …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The validity of research results depends on the reliability of analysis methods. In recent
years, there have been concerns about the validity of research that uses diffusion-weighted …

Tractostorm: The what, why, and how of tractography dissection reproducibility

F Rheault, A De Benedictis, A Daducci… - Human brain …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Investigative studies of white matter (WM) brain structures using diffusion MRI (dMRI)
tractography frequently require manual WM bundle segmentation, often called “virtual …

MRI in the assessment and monitoring of multiple sclerosis: an update on best practice

UW Kaunzner, SA Gauthier - Therapeutic advances in …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has developed into the most important tool for the
diagnosis and monitoring of multiple sclerosis (MS). Its high sensitivity for the evaluation of …