Information-Theoretic Algorithms for Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Description
Concepts from Information Theory have been used quite widely in Image Processing, Computer Vision and Medical Image Analysis for several decades now. Most widely used concepts are that of KL-divergence, minimum description length (MDL), etc. These concepts have been popularly employed for image registration, segmentation, classification etc. In this chapter we review several methods, mostly developed by our group at the Center for Vision, Graphics & Medical Imaging in the University of Florida, that glean concepts from Information Theory and apply them to achieve analysis of Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance (DW-MRI) data. This relatively new MRI modality allows one to non-invasively infer axonal connectivity patterns in the central nervous system. The focus of this chapter is to review automated image analysis techniques that allow us to automatically segment the region of interest in the DWMRI image wherein one might want to track the axonal pathways and also methods to reconstruct complex local tissue geometries containing axonal fiber crossings. Implementation results illustrating the algorithm application to real DW-MRI data sets are depicted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the methods reviewed.
| Slides | |
| 0:00 | Information theoretic methods for diffusion-weighted MRI analysis |
| 0:54 | Outline |
| 1:59 | Outline - Introduction |
| 2:01 | Motivation |
| 2:57 | Diagnosis of Injury and Disease |
| 4:48 | Outline |
| 4:50 | Diffusion Process (1) |
| 5:11 | Diffusion Process (2) |
| 5:28 | Diffusion in Tissue |
| 5:56 | Diffusion MRI |
| 7:41 | Diffusion MRI (Contd.) |
| 7:43 | Diffusion-Weighted Imaging |
| 8:00 | Diffusion Tensor Imaging |
| 9:05 | DT-MRI Contd. |
| 9:22 | DTI Examples of Ellipsoid Visualization |
| 9:54 | Fiber Tract Visualizations |
| 9:56 | Fiber Tract Mapping |
| 10:25 | Fiber Tract Mapping from Restored DTI |
| 10:40 | Fiber Tract Mapping (Contd.) |
| 10:56 | DTI Segmentation |
| 13:27 | DTI Segmentation Using an Information Theoretic Tensor Dissimilarity Measure |
| 14:27 | Definition of a New DT "Distance" |
| 14:52 | Definition of a New DT "Distance" (Cont’) |
| 15:33 | Affine Invariant Property |
| 16:06 | Comparison of tensor field segmentations. |
| 16:43 | Tensor Field Mean Value |
| 17:46 | Tensor Field Mean Value (Cont’) |
| 17:54 | Evolution of a Curve and its Level-set Formulation (1) |
| 18:22 | Evolution of a Curve and its Level-set Formulation (2) |
| 19:18 | A Bimodal Tensor Field Segmentation Model |
| 19:54 | Curve Evolution Equation and Levelset Formulation |
| 20:05 | The Mumford-shah functional for Piecewise Smooth DTI Segmentation. |
| 20:33 | Discontinuity Preserving Smoothing |
| 20:56 | Curve Evolution Equation |
| 21:07 | Level Set Formulation |
| 21:14 | Regions of Different Orientations |
| 21:31 | Regions of Different Orientations (With Additive Noise) |
| 21:39 | Regions of Different Scales |
| 22:02 | Regions of Different Scales (With Additive Noises) |
| 22:11 | DTI of a Normal Rat Spinal Cord |
| 22:50 | 2D DTI Segmentation of a Normal Rat Spinal Cord |
| 23:01 | DTI of a Normal Rat Brain |
| 23:04 | 2D DTI Segmentation of the Corpus Callosum |
| 23:21 | 2D DTI Segmentation of the Corpus Callosum using the Piecewise Smooth Model |
| 23:31 | 3D DTI Segmentation of a Normal Spinal Cord |
| 23:34 | 3D DTI Segmentation of the Corpus Callosum |
| 23:35 | 3D DTI Segmentation of the Corpus Callosum (Cont’) |
| 23:37 | 3D Segmented CC w/Mapped LIC |
| 24:02 | What is the Problem with DTI? |
| 25:02 | State of the Art (1) |
| 25:08 | State of the Art (2) |
| 25:09 | State of the Art (3) |
| 25:11 | State of the Art (4) |
| 26:09 | State of the Art (5) |
| 27:25 | Fundamental relationship |
| 27:33 | The Diffusion tensor model |
| 27:37 | Stejskal-Tanner equation and ADC profiles |
| 27:43 | Approaches using finite mixture model (1) |
| 28:48 | Approaches using finite mixture model (2) |
| 28:52 | Proposed work: a novel statistical model (1) |
| 29:10 | Proposed work: a novel statistical model (2) |
| 29:18 | Approaches using finite mixture model (2) |
| 29:34 | Proposed work: a novel statistical model (2) |
| 29:51 | Proposed work: Highlights (1) |
| 29:53 | Proposed work: Highlights (2) |
| 29:53 | Proposed work: Highlights (3) |
| 30:26 | Proposed work: Applications (1) |
| 30:28 | Proposed work: Applications (2) |
| 30:28 | Our formulation |
| 32:06 | The Laplace transform on Pn |
| 32:08 | The Statistical model |
| 32:21 | The Wishart distributed tensor model for DW-MRI |
| 32:58 | Mono-exponential model as a limiting case |
| 33:10 | Multi-fiber reconstruction (1) |
| 33:44 | Multi-fiber reconstruction (2) |
| 33:46 | Linear system again! |
| 34:38 | Probability surfaces from simulated data |
| 35:14 | Resistance to noise (2-fibers, o = 0.08) |
| 35:25 | Resistance to noise (3-fibers, o = 0.04) |
| 35:30 | Comparison with Q-ball ODF |
| 36:00 | Real data: excised rat optic chiasm (1) |
| 36:02 | Real data: excised rat optic chiasm (2) |
| 36:30 | Real data: excised rat brain |
| 36:32 | S0 maps of control rat brain data |
| 36:43 | Probability surfaces from control rat brain data |
| 37:09 | S0 map of epileptic rat brain data |
| 37:15 | Probability surfaces from epileptic rat brain data |
| 37:29 | Summary of Main Contributions |
| 38:34 | Summary (Contd.) |
| 38:49 | Acknowledgements |
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