Longitudinal Harmonization for Improving Tractography in Baby Diffusion MRI

Khoi Minh Huynh, Jaeil Kim, Geng Chen, Ye Wu, Dinggang Shen, Pew Thian Yap

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Abstract

The human brain develops very rapidly in the first years of life, resulting in significant changes in water diffusion anisotropy. Developmental changes pose significant challenges to longitudinally consistent white matter tractography. In this paper, we will introduce a method to harmonize infant diffusion MRI data longitudinally across time. Specifically, we harmonize diffusion MRI data collected at an earlier time point to data collected at a later time point. This will promote longitudinal consistency and allow sharpening of fiber orientation distribution functions (ODFs) based on information available at the later time point. For this purpose, we will introduce an approach that is based on the method of moments, which allows harmonization to be performed directly on the diffusion-attenuated signal without the need to fit any diffusion models to the data. Given two diffusion MRI datasets, our method harmonizes them voxel-wise using well-behaving mapping functions (i.e., monotonic, diffeomorphic, etc.), parameters of which are determined by matching the spherical moments (i.e., mean, variance, skewness, etc.) of signal measurements on each shell. The mapping functions we use is isotropic and does not introduce new orientations that are not already in the original data. Our analysis indicates that longitudinal harmonization sharpens ODFs and improves tractography in infant diffusion MRI.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMathematics and Visualization
EditorsElisenda Bonet-Carne, Francesco Grussu, Lipeng Ning, Farshid Sepehrband, Chantal M.W. Tax
PublisherSpringer Heidelberg
Pages183-191
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030058302
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
EventInternational Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI, CDMRI 2018 held with International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018 - Granada, Spain
Duration: 20 Sep 201820 Sep 2018

Publication series

NameMathematics and Visualization
ISSN (Print)1612-3786
ISSN (Electronic)2197-666X

Conference

ConferenceInternational Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI, CDMRI 2018 held with International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018
Country/TerritorySpain
CityGranada
Period20/09/1820/09/18

Keywords

  • Diffusion MRI
  • Longitudinal harmonization
  • Method of moments
  • Tractography

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