Tractography-Driven Synthetic Data Generation for Fiber Bundle Segmentation in Tracer Histology

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26898v1
• Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:29:46 GMT
• Title: Tractography-Driven Synthetic Data Generation for Fiber Bundle Segmentation in Tracer Histology
• Abstract summary: We propose a synthetic-data augmented framework for automated fiber bundle segmentation in macaque tracer histology.<n>Our approach uses ex vivo dMRI tractography as a generative prior to synthesize 2D image patches for training.<n>A 2D U-Net is trained on mixed real and synthetic patches.
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• Abstract: Diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography enables non-invasive reconstruction of white-matter pathways, but its accuracy is fundamentally limited by indirect, low-resolution measurements of axonal organization. Tracer injection studies in non-human primates provide a gold standard for validating dMRI tractography. This, however, requires time-consuming manual annotation of fiber bundles in histology sections. We propose a synthetic-data augmented framework for automated fiber bundle segmentation in macaque tracer histology. Our approach uses ex vivo dMRI tractography as a generative prior to synthesize 2D image patches for training. This provides us with sufficiently realistic foreground texture, which we compose with backgrounds from blockface photos and diversify via domain randomization. A 2D U-Net is trained on mixed real and synthetic patches. Experiments on held-out brains demonstrate improved generalization across brains and fiber bundle densities compared to training with real data only. Training with synthetic data only leads to poor performance, underscoring the need for real supervision. Overall, our approach achieves performance comparable to the state-of-the-art while requiring 3x less manually annotated data.

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