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 …

[HTML][HTML] What's new and what's next in diffusion MRI preprocessing

CMW Tax, M Bastiani, J Veraart, E Garyfallidis… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Diffusion MRI (dMRI) provides invaluable information for the study of tissue microstructure
and brain connectivity, but suffers from a range of imaging artifacts that greatly challenge the …

Diffusion weighted image denoising using overcomplete local PCA

JV Manjón, P Coupé, L Concha, A Buades, DL Collins… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Diffusion Weighted Images (DWI) normally shows a low Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) due to
the presence of noise from the measurement process that complicates and biases the …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] Statistical shape analysis: with applications in R

IL Dryden, KV Mardia - 2016 - books.google.com
A thoroughly revised and updated edition of this introduction to modern statistical methods
for shape analysis Shape analysis is an important tool in the many disciplines where objects …

The neural architecture of the language comprehension network: converging evidence from lesion and connectivity analyses

AU Turken, NF Dronkers - Frontiers in System Neuroscience, 2011 - frontiersin.org
While traditional models of language comprehension have focused on the left posterior
temporal cortex as the neurological basis for language comprehension, lesion and …

Neural language networks at birth

D Perani, MC Saccuman, P Scifo, A Anwander… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - pnas.org
The ability to learn language is a human trait. In adults and children, brain imaging studies
have shown that auditory language activates a bilateral frontotemporal network with a left …

Microstructural imaging of the human brain with a 'super-scanner': 10 key advantages of ultra-strong gradients for diffusion MRI

DK Jones, DC Alexander, R Bowtell, M Cercignani… - NeuroImage, 2018 - Elsevier
The key component of a microstructural diffusion MRI 'super-scanner'is a dedicated high-
strength gradient system that enables stronger diffusion weightings per unit time compared …

Geometric means in a novel vector space structure on symmetric positive-definite matrices

V Arsigny, P Fillard, X Pennec, N Ayache - SIAM journal on matrix analysis and …, 2007 - SIAM
In this work we present a new generalization of the geometric mean of positive numbers on
symmetric positive-definite matrices, called Log-Euclidean. The approach is based on two …

Non-Euclidean statistics for covariance matrices, with applications to diffusion tensor imaging

IL Dryden, A Koloydenko, D Zhou - The Annals of Applied Statistics, 2009 - JSTOR
The statistical analysis of covariance matrix data is considered and, in particular,
methodology is discussed which takes into account the nonEuclidean nature of the space of …

Lesion load of the corticospinal tract predicts motor impairment in chronic stroke

LL Zhu, R Lindenberg, MP Alexander, G Schlaug - Stroke, 2010 - ahajournals.org
Background and Purpose—Previous studies have shown motor impairment after a stroke
relates to lesion size and location, but unexplained variability in recovery still exists. In this …