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PROBABILISTIC FIBER TRACKING USING A MODIFIED LASSO BOOTSTRAP METHOD.

Chuyang Ye¹, Jeffrey Glaister¹, Jerry L Prince¹

¹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

|August 27, 2016

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This study introduces a novel probabilistic fiber tracking method using diffusion MRI. It improves white matter tract analysis by accounting for noise and estimating fiber orientation distributions.

Keywords:

Diffusion MRI Lasso bootstrap probabilistic fiber tracking

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Area of Science:

Neuroimaging
Biomedical Engineering
Computational Neuroscience

Background:

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a noninvasive neuroimaging technique.
Investigating white matter tracts is crucial for understanding brain structure and function.
Probabilistic fiber tracking methods aim to reconstruct white matter pathways while considering noise-induced uncertainty.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a novel probabilistic fiber tracking method for dMRI.
To enhance the accuracy of white matter tract reconstruction by incorporating uncertainty.
To validate the proposed method on both synthetic and real brain data.

Main Methods:

A probabilistic fiber tracking approach based on bootstrapping a multi-tensor model with a fixed tensor basis.
Fiber orientation (FO) estimation formulated as a Lasso problem.
Resampling residuals from a modified Lasso estimator to generate synthetic diffusion signals and estimate FO distributions.

Main Results:

The proposed method successfully estimated distributions of fiber orientations.
Probabilistic fiber tracking was performed by sampling from the estimated FO distributions.
Validation on a digital crossing phantom and human brain dMRI data demonstrated the method's efficacy.

Conclusions:

The developed probabilistic fiber tracking method offers a robust approach for analyzing white matter tracts in dMRI.
This technique effectively handles noise and uncertainty in diffusion signal data.
The findings support the potential of this method for advanced neuroimaging research.