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Estimating Crossing Fibers: A Tensor Decomposition Approach
November/December 2008 (vol. 14 no. 6)
pp. 1635-1642
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Thomas Schultz, Hans-Peter Seidel, "Estimating Crossing Fibers: A Tensor Decomposition Approach," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 1635-1642, November/December, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TVCG.2008.128,
author = {Thomas Schultz and Hans-Peter Seidel},
title = {Estimating Crossing Fibers: A Tensor Decomposition Approach},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {14},
number = {6},
issn = {1077-2626},
year = {2008},
pages = {1635-1642},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2008.128},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
TI - Estimating Crossing Fibers: A Tensor Decomposition Approach
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SN - 1077-2626
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EPD - 1635-1642
A1 - Thomas Schultz,
A1 - Hans-Peter Seidel,
PY - 2008
KW - Index Terms—DW-MRI
KW - Q-Ball
KW - spherical deconvolution
KW - fiber tracking
KW - higher-order tensor
KW - tensor decomposition.
VL - 14
JA - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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Thomas Schultz, MPI Informatik
Hans-Peter Seidel, MPI Informatik
Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging is a unique tool for non-invasive investigation of major nerve fiber tracts. Since the popular diffusion tensor (DT-MRI) model is limited to voxels with a single fiber direction, a number of high angular resolution techniques have been proposed to provide information about more diverse fiber distributions. Two such approaches are Q-Ball imaging and spherical deconvolution, which produce orientation distribution functions (ODFs) on the sphere. For analysis and visualization, the maxima of these functions have been used as principal directions, even though the results are known to be biased in case of crossing fiber tracts. In this paper, we present a more reliable technique for extracting discrete orientations from continuous ODFs, which is based on decomposing their higher-order tensor representation into an isotropic component, several rank-1 terms, and a small residual. Comparing to ground truth in synthetic data shows that the novel method reduces bias and reliably reconstructs crossing fibers which are not resolved as individual maxima in the ODF. We present results on both Q-Ball and spherical deconvolution data and demonstrate that the estimated directions allow for plausible fiber tracking in a real data set.

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Index Terms:
Index Terms—DW-MRI, Q-Ball, spherical deconvolution, fiber tracking, higher-order tensor, tensor decomposition.
Citation:
Thomas Schultz, Hans-Peter Seidel, "Estimating Crossing Fibers: A Tensor Decomposition Approach," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 1635-1642, Nov.-Dec. 2008, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2008.128
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