A filtered approach to neural tractography using the Watson directional function

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-69

  Malcolm, James G ^a   Michailovich, Oleg ^b   Bouix, Sylvain ^a   Westin, Carl Fredrik ^c   Shenton, Martha E ^a,d   Rathi, Yogesh ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted MRI; Kalman filtering; Tractography; Watson directional function

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; COMPACT REPRESENTATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CURRENT ESTIMATES; DIFFUSION DIRECTION; DIFFUSION FUNCTIONS; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED MRI; DISCRETE MIXTURE; FIBER MODEL; FIBER ORIENTATIONS; FIBER TRACKING; FIBER TRACTOGRAPHY; FILTERING FRAMEWORK; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; INTERNAL CAPSULES; KALMAN-FILTERING; LOCAL FIBER ORIENTATION; LOCAL STRUCTURE; MEASURED SIGNALS; PARAMETERIZED; POST PROCESSING; SCALING PARAMETER; SEED POINT; SMOOTH TRAJECTORIES; SYNTHETIC EXPERIMENTS; THREE COMPONENT; TRACTOGRAPHY; UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER;

CONTROL THEORY; DIFFUSION; FIBERS; KALMAN FILTERS; LAMINATES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FILTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 70450263391     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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