Bundle-specific Tractogram Distribution Estimation Using Higher-order Streamline Differential Equation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02825v2
• Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 02:28:54 GMT
• Title: Bundle-specific Tractogram Distribution Estimation Using Higher-order Streamline Differential Equation
• Authors: Yuanjing Feng, Lei Xie, Jingqiang Wang, Qiyuan Tian, Jianzhong He, Qingrun Zeng, Fei Gao,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel tractography method based on a bundle-specific tractogram distribution function. A unified framework for any higher-order streamline differential equation is presented to describe the fiber bundles. At the global level, the tractography process is simplified as the estimation of bundle-specific tractogram distribution (BTD) coefficients.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Tractography traces the peak directions extracted from fiber orientation distribution (FOD) suffering from ambiguous spatial correspondences between diffusion directions and fiber geometry, which is prone to producing erroneous tracks while missing true positive connections. The peaks-based tractography methods 'locally' reconstructed streamlines in 'single to single' manner, thus lacking of global information about the trend of the whole fiber bundle. In this work, we propose a novel tractography method based on a bundle-specific tractogram distribution function by using a higher-order streamline differential equation, which reconstructs the streamline bundles in 'cluster to cluster' manner. A unified framework for any higher-order streamline differential equation is presented to describe the fiber bundles with disjoint streamlines defined based on the diffusion tensor vector field. At the global level, the tractography process is simplified as the estimation of bundle-specific tractogram distribution (BTD) coefficients by minimizing the energy optimization model, and is used to characterize the relations between BTD and diffusion tensor vector under the prior guidance by introducing the tractogram bundle information to provide anatomic priors. Experiments are performed on simulated Hough, Sine, Circle data, ISMRM 2015 Tractography Challenge data, FiberCup data, and in vivo data from the Human Connectome Project (HCP) data for qualitative and quantitative evaluation. The results demonstrate that our approach can reconstruct the complex global fiber bundles directly. BTD reduces the error deviation and accumulation at the local level and shows better results in reconstructing long-range, twisting, and large fanning tracts.

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