Cluster Confidence Index: A Streamline‐Wise Pathway Reproducibility Metric for Diffusion‐Weighted MRI Tractography

Journal of Neuroimaging - Tập 28 Số 1 - Trang 64-69 - 2018
Kesshi Jordan1,2, Bagrat Amirbekian1,2, Anisha Keshavan1,2, Roland G. Henry1,3,2
1Departments of Neurology University of California San Francisco CA
2UCSF-UC Berkeley Graduate Group in Bioengineering San Francisco and Berkeley CA
3Radiology and Biomedical Imaging University of California San Francisco CA

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ABSTRACTBACKGROUNDDiffusion‐weighted magnetic resonance imaging tractography can be used to create models of white matter fascicles. Anatomical and pathological variability between subjects can drastically alter the tractography output, so standardizing results across a cohort is nontrivial. Furthermore, tractography methods have inherently low reproducibility due to stochasticity (for probabilistic methods) and subjective decisions, since the final fascicle model often requires a manual intervention step performed by an expert human operator to control both outliers and systematic false‐positive pathways, as defined by prior knowledge of anatomy.METHODSWe present an approach that computationally assigns a cluster confidence index (CCI) reflecting the reproducibility of that pathway in the context of a streamline dataset. This metric is a tractography algorithm‐agnostic tool that can be applied to any dataset of streamlines.RESULTSApplications of this metric include systematic elimination of outlier streamlines using a CCI threshold and interactive filtering by CCI to facilitate manual segmentation of fascicle models.CONCLUSIONSThis method is intended to replace the application of a streamline density threshold so that outliers are eliminated based on low pathway density instead of voxel‐wise density.

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Journal of Neuroimaging

Tập 28 Số 1

64-69

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