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Statistical artifacts in diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI) caused by background noise.

P J Basser1, S Pajevic

  • 1Section on Tissue Biophysics and Biomimetics, Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-5772, USA. pjbasser@helix.nih.gov

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
|July 14, 2000
PubMed
Summary

Background noise creates statistical artifacts in diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI) data. New methods reduce bias in eigenvalue and eigenvector estimates, improving microstructure characterization.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Imaging
  • Biophysics
  • Neuroimaging

Background:

  • Background noise in diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI) data introduces statistical artifacts.
  • Magnitude sorting of eigenvalues (principal diffusivities) is known to bias sample mean within ROIs.
  • This bias extends to the variance of sample mean eigenvalues.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To elucidate how background noise causes statistical artifacts in sorted eigenvalues and eigenvectors in DT-MRI.
  • To present new methods for calculating mean and variance of diffusion tensor eigenvectors.
  • To propose a novel approach for ordering eigenvalue-eigenvector pairs within a region of interest (ROI).

Main Methods:

  • Developed new methods for calculating mean and variance of eigenvectors using dyadic tensor representation.

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  • Exploited correspondence between diffusion ellipsoid principal axes, eigenvalue-eigenvector pairs, and dyadic tensors.
  • Defined an overlap measure between principal axes using dyadic tensor projections for optimal eigenvalue assignment.

    • Main Results:

    • Magnitude sorting biases both the mean and variance of sample eigenvectors (principal directions).
    • New methods reduce bias in estimating mean and variance of eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
    • Improvements observed in both DT-MRI experiments and Monte Carlo simulations, especially in isotropic regions.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed statistical framework mitigates artifacts in DT-MRI data analysis.
    • Enhanced characterization of tissue microstructure, architecture, and changes in development/disease is possible.
    • Improved characterization of diffusion anisotropy and fiber-tract trajectories in the brain and other tissues.