Automatic clustering of white matter fibers in brain diffusion mri with an application to genetics

NeuroImage

Volumn 100, Issue , 2014, Pages 75-90

  Jin, Yan ^a,b   Shi, Yonggang ^b   Zhan, Liang ^a,b   Gutman, Boris A ^a,b   de Zubicaray, Greig I ^c   McMahon, Katie L ^c   Wright, Margaret J ^d   Toga, Arthur W ^b   Thompson, Paul M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fiber clustering; Genetic heritability; HARDI; Label fusion; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FIRST CERVICAL VERTEBRA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HERITABILITY; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BOOK; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MYELINATED NERVE; PROCEDURES; TWINS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ATLASES AS TOPIC; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903879262     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.048     Document Type: Article

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