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In this paper we discuss new measures for connectivity analysis of brain white matter, using MR diffusion tensor imaging. Our approach is based on Riemannian geometry, the viability of which has been demonstrated by various researchers in foregoing work. In the Riemannian framework bundles of axons are represented by geodesics on the manifold. Here we do not discuss methods to compute these geodesics, nor do we rely on the availability of geodesics. Instead we propose local measures which are directly computable from the local DTI data, and which enable us to preselect viable or exclude uninteresting seed points for the potentially time consuming extraction of geodesics. If geodesics are available, our measures can be readily applied to these as well.
We consider two types of geodesic measures. One pertains to the connectivity saliency of a geodesic, the second to its stability with respect to local spatial perturbations. For the first type of measure we consider both differential as well as integral measures for characterizing a geodesic’s saliency either locally or globally. (In the latter case one needs to be in possession of the geodesic curve, in the former case a single tangent vector suffices.) The second type of measure is intrinsically local, and turns out to be related to a well known tensor in Riemannian geometry.
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) is gratefully acknowledged for financial support.
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Astola, L., Florack, L., ter Haar Romeny, B. (2007). Measures for Pathway Analysis in Brain White Matter Using Diffusion Tensor Images. In: Karssemeijer, N., Lelieveldt, B. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. IPMI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4584. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73273-0_53
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