A Novel Dual-Stream Framework for dMRI Tractography Streamline Classification with Joint dMRI and fMRI Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18781v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:31:47 GMT
• Title: A Novel Dual-Stream Framework for dMRI Tractography Streamline Classification with Joint dMRI and fMRI Data
• Authors: Haotian Yan, Bocheng Guo, Jianzhong He, Nir A. Sochen, Ofer Pasternak, Lauren J O'Donnell, Fan Zhang,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a novel dual-stream streamline classification framework that jointly analyzes dMRI and functional MRI (fMRI) data to enhance the functional coherence of tract parcellation.<n>We demonstrate our method by parcellating the corticospinal tract (CST) into its four somatotopic subdivisions.
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• Abstract: Streamline classification is essential to identify anatomically meaningful white matter tracts from diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography. However, current streamline classification methods rely primarily on the geometric features of the streamline trajectory, failing to distinguish between functionally distinct fiber tracts with similar pathways. To address this, we introduce a novel dual-stream streamline classification framework that jointly analyzes dMRI and functional MRI (fMRI) data to enhance the functional coherence of tract parcellation. We design a novel network that performs streamline classification using a pretrained backbone model for full streamline trajectories, while augmenting with an auxiliary network that processes fMRI signals from fiber endpoint regions. We demonstrate our method by parcellating the corticospinal tract (CST) into its four somatotopic subdivisions. Experimental results from ablation studies and comparisons with state-of-the-art methods demonstrate our approach's superior performance.

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