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DTI of the Visual Pathway - White Matter Tracts and Cerebral Lesions

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SPECTRA: Spatial Inference for Tractometry Toward Precision Mapping of White Matter Microstructure.

Yixue Feng¹, Julio E Villalón-Reina¹, Iyad Ba Gari¹

¹Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA.

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We developed SPECTRA, a new framework for diffusion MRI tractometry, to precisely map white matter microstructure. SPECTRA reveals localized patterns by analyzing radial heterogeneity, improving statistical power in large studies.

Keywords:

diffusion MRI diffusion tensor imaging false discovery rate spatial inference tractography tractometry

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Area of Science:

Neuroimaging
Computational Neuroscience
Biomedical Engineering

Background:

Diffusion MRI tractometry analyzes white matter microstructure along fiber bundles.
Standard methods obscure radial heterogeneity and yield inconsistent inference units.
Existing techniques lack the resolution for detailed cross-sectional analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

Introduce SPECTRA (Spatial Inference for Tractometry), a novel framework for enhanced diffusion MRI tractometry.
Address limitations of standard along-tract profiling by incorporating radial information and improving statistical inference.
Enable precise mapping of white matter microstructure in large-scale studies.

Main Methods:

Developed a 2D bundle parameterization extending along-tract profiling to include a radial dimension.
Implemented a two-stage hierarchical false discovery rate (hFDR) procedure for multi-bundle inference.
Utilized a Matérn kernel for deriving spatial scales in statistical inference.

Main Results:

Simulations demonstrated hFDR improves statistical power and reduces required sample size compared to global FDR correction.
Characterized sensitivity-specificity tradeoffs, offering guidance for tractometry study design.
Empirical analysis in over 4,000 subjects revealed spatially localized patterns absent in 1D profiles.

Conclusions:

SPECTRA enables spatially resolved parameterization and adaptive error control for precise white matter microstructure mapping.
The framework enhances the ability to detect localized effects in large-scale tractometry studies.
SPECTRA is available as an open-source Python package for broader research application.