QuickBundles, a method for tractography simplification

Autor: Eleftherios eGaryfallidis, Matthew eBrett, Marta Morgado Correia, Guy B. Williams, Ian eNimmo-Smith
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Vol 6 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1662-453X
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00175
Popis: Diffusion MR data sets produce large numbers of streamlines whichare hard to visualize, interact with, and interpret in a clinicallyacceptable time scale, despite numerous proposed approaches. As asolution we present a simple, compact, tailor-made clustering algorithm,QuickBundles (QB), that overcomes the complexity of these large datasets and provides informative clusters in seconds. Each QB cluster canbe represented by a single centroid streamline; collectively thesecentroid streamlines can be taken as an effective representation of thetractography. We provide a number of tests to show how the QB reductionhas good consistency and robustness. We show how the QB reduction canhelp in the search for similarities across several subjects.
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