TY - GEN
T1 - Belief propagation based segmentation of white matter tracts in DTI
AU - Bazin, Pierre-Louis
AU - Bogovic, John
AU - Reich, Daniel Salo
AU - Prince, Jerry L.
AU - Pham, Dzung
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper presents a belief propagation approach to the segmentation of the major white matter tracts in diffusion tensor images of the human brain. Unlike tractography methods that sample multiple fibers to be bundled together, we define a Markov field directly on the diffusion tensors to separate the main fiber tracts at the voxel level. A prior model of shape and direction guides a full segmentation of the brain into known fiber tracts; additional, unspecified fibers; and isotropic regions. The method is evaluated on various data sets from an atlasing project, healthy subjects, and multiple sclerosis patients.
AB - This paper presents a belief propagation approach to the segmentation of the major white matter tracts in diffusion tensor images of the human brain. Unlike tractography methods that sample multiple fibers to be bundled together, we define a Markov field directly on the diffusion tensors to separate the main fiber tracts at the voxel level. A prior model of shape and direction guides a full segmentation of the brain into known fiber tracts; additional, unspecified fibers; and isotropic regions. The method is evaluated on various data sets from an atlasing project, healthy subjects, and multiple sclerosis patients.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-04268-3_116
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-04268-3_116
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 20426079
AN - SCOPUS:84883846308
SN - 3642042678
SN - 9783642042676
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 943
EP - 950
BT - Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2009 - 12th International Conference, Proceedings
T2 - 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2009
Y2 - 20 September 2009 through 24 September 2009
ER -