MR diffusion tensor imaging: a window into white matter integrity of the working brain

S Chanraud, N Zahr, EV Sullivan… - Neuropsychology review, 2010 - Springer
Abstract As Norman Geschwind asserted in 1965, syndromes resulting from white matter
lesions could produce deficits in higher-order functions and “disconnexion” or the …

Automated probabilistic reconstruction of white-matter pathways in health and disease using an atlas of the underlying anatomy

A Yendiki, P Panneck, P Srinivasan… - Frontiers in …, 2011 - frontiersin.org
We have developed a method for automated probabilistic reconstruction of a set of major
white-matter pathways from diffusion-weighted MR images. Our method is called TRACULA …

The structural–functional connectome and the default mode network of the human brain

A Horn, D Ostwald, M Reisert, F Blankenburg - Neuroimage, 2014 - Elsevier
An emerging field of human brain imaging deals with the characterization of the
connectome, a comprehensive global description of structural and functional connectivity …

The geometric median on Riemannian manifolds with application to robust atlas estimation

PT Fletcher, S Venkatasubramanian, S Joshi - NeuroImage, 2009 - Elsevier
One of the primary goals of computational anatomy is the statistical analysis of anatomical
variability in large populations of images. The study of anatomical shape is inherently …

Microstructural connectivity of the arcuate fasciculus in adolescents with high-functioning autism

PT Fletcher, RT Whitaker, R Tao, MB DuBray… - Neuroimage, 2010 - Elsevier
The arcuate fasciculus is a white matter fiber bundle of great importance in language. In this
study, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was used to infer white matter integrity in the arcuate …

Group analysis of DTI fiber tract statistics with application to neurodevelopment

CB Goodlett, PT Fletcher, JH Gilmore, G Gerig - Neuroimage, 2009 - Elsevier
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) provides a unique source of information about the underlying
tissue structure of brain white matter in vivo including both the geometry of major fiber …

Direct segmentation of the major white matter tracts in diffusion tensor images

PL Bazin, C Ye, JA Bogovic, N Shiee, DS Reich… - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Diffusion-weighted images of the human brain are acquired more and more routinely in
clinical research settings, yet segmenting and labeling white matter tracts in these images is …

Probabilistic white matter fiber tracking using particle filtering and von Mises–Fisher sampling

F Zhang, ER Hancock, C Goodlett, G Gerig - Medical image analysis, 2009 - Elsevier
Standard particle filtering technique have previously been applied to the problem of fiber
tracking by Brun et al.[Brun, A., Bjornemo, M., Kikinis, R., Westin, CF, 2002. White matter …

Brain tractography using Q-ball imaging and graph theory: Improved connectivities through fibre crossings via a model-based approach

SN Sotiropoulos, L Bai, PS Morgan… - Neuroimage, 2010 - Elsevier
Brain tractography techniques utilize a set of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images
to reconstruct white matter tracts, non-invasively and in-vivo. Streamline tracking techniques …

Connecting and merging fibres: pathway extraction by combining probability maps

BW Kreher, S Schnell, I Mader, KA Il'yasov, J Hennig… - Neuroimage, 2008 - Elsevier
Probability mapping of connectivity is a powerful tool to determine the fibre structure of white
matter in the brain. Probability maps are related to the degree of connectivity to a chosen …