Sairanen , V , Ocampo-Pineda , M , Granziera , C , Schiavi , S & Daducci , A 2022 , ' Incorporating outlier information into diffusion-weighted MRI modeling for robust microstructural imaging and structural brain connectivity analyses ' , NeuroImage , vol. 247 , 118802 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118802
Title: | Incorporating outlier information into diffusion-weighted MRI modeling for robust microstructural imaging and structural brain connectivity analyses |
Author: | Sairanen, Viljami; Ocampo-Pineda, Mario; Granziera, Cristina; Schiavi, Simona; Daducci, Alessandro |
Contributor organization: | University of Helsinki HUS Children and Adolescents Kliinisen neurofysiologian yksikkö |
Date: | 2022-02-15 |
Language: | eng |
Number of pages: | 13 |
Belongs to series: | NeuroImage |
ISSN: | 1053-8119 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118802 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/338795 |
Abstract: | A B S T R A C T The white matter structures of the human brain can be represented using diffusion-weighted MRI tractography. Unfortunately, tractography is prone to find false-positive streamlines causing a severe decline in its specificity and limiting its feasibility in accurate structural brain connectivity analyses. Filtering algorithms have been pro-posed to reduce the number of invalid streamlines but the currently available filtering algorithms are not suitable to process data that contains motion artefacts which are typical in clinical research. We augmented the Con-vex Optimization Modelling for Microstructure Informed Tractography (COMMIT) algorithm to adjust for these signals drop-out motion artefacts. We demonstrate with comprehensive Monte-Carlo whole brain simulations and in vivo infant data that our robust algorithm is capable of properly filtering tractography reconstructions despite these artefacts. We evaluated the results using parametric and non-parametric statistics and our results demonstrate that if not accounted for, motion artefacts can have severe adverse effects in human brain structural connectivity analyses as well as in microstructural property mappings. In conclusion, the usage of robust filtering methods to mitigate motion related errors in tractogram filtering is highly beneficial, especially in clinical stud-ies with uncooperative patient groups such as infants. With our presented robust augmentation and open-source implementation, robust tractogram filtering is readily available. |
Subject: |
Magnetic resonance imaging
Diffusion Tractography Robust Filtering Commit Outlier Imputation Structural connectivity Microstructure Movement Weighted modeling WHITE-MATTER SPHERICAL-DECONVOLUTION TRACTOGRAPHY TENSOR EXTRACTION ARTIFACTS REJECTION INFANTS RESTORE SIGNAL 3112 Neurosciences 3124 Neurology and psychiatry 3126 Surgery, anesthesiology, intensive care, radiology |
Peer reviewed: | Yes |
Rights: | cc_by |
Usage restriction: | openAccess |
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