Deep Fiber Clustering: Anatomically Informed Unsupervised Deep Learning for Fast and Effective White Matter Parcellation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04938v1
• Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2021 01:36:57 GMT
• Title: Deep Fiber Clustering: Anatomically Informed Unsupervised Deep Learning for Fast and Effective White Matter Parcellation
• Authors: Yuqian Chen, Chaoyi Zhang, Yang Song, Nikos Makris, Yogesh Rathi, Weidong Cai, Fan Zhang, Lauren J. O'Donnell
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel WMFC framework based on unsupervised deep learning. We use a convolutional neural network to learn embeddings of input fibers, using pairwise fiber distances as pseudo annotations. Results demonstrate superior performance and efficiency of the proposed approach.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: White matter fiber clustering (WMFC) enables parcellation of white matter tractography for applications such as disease classification and anatomical tract segmentation. However, the lack of ground truth and the ambiguity of fiber data (the points along a fiber can equivalently be represented in forward or reverse order) pose challenges to this task. We propose a novel WMFC framework based on unsupervised deep learning. We solve the unsupervised clustering problem as a self-supervised learning task. Specifically, we use a convolutional neural network to learn embeddings of input fibers, using pairwise fiber distances as pseudo annotations. This enables WMFC that is insensitive to fiber point ordering. In addition, anatomical coherence of fiber clusters is improved by incorporating brain anatomical segmentation data. The proposed framework enables outlier removal in a natural way by rejecting fibers with low cluster assignment probability. We train and evaluate our method using 200 datasets from the Human Connectome Project. Results demonstrate superior performance and efficiency of the proposed approach.

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