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Double Diffeomorphism: Combining Morphometry and Structural Connectivity Analysis
- Source :
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018, 37 (9), pp.2033-2043. ⟨10.1109/TMI.2018.2813062⟩, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2018, 37 (9), pp.2033-2043. ⟨10.1109/TMI.2018.2813062⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018.
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Abstract
- International audience; The brain is composed of several neural circuits which may be seen as anatomical complexes composed of grey matter structures interconnected by white matter tracts. Grey and white matter components may be modelled as 3D surfaces and curves respectively. Neurodevelopmental disorders involve morphological and organizational alterations which can not be jointly captured by usual shape analysis techniques based on single diffeomorphisms. We propose a new deformation scheme, called double diffeomorphism, which is a combination of two diffeomorphisms. The first one captures changes in structural connectivity, whereas the second one recovers the global morphological variations of both grey and white matter structures. This deformation model is integrated into a Bayesian framework for atlas construction. We evaluate it on a data-set of 3D structures representing the neural circuits of patients with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS). We show that this approach makes it possible to localise, quantify and easily visualise the pathological anomalies altering the morphology and organization of the neural circuits. Furthermore, results also indicate that the proposed deformation model better discriminates between controls and GTS patients than a single diffeomorphism.
- Subjects :
- Computer science
[INFO.INFO-IM] Computer Science [cs]/Medical Imaging
Neuroimaging
02 engineering and technology
Grey matter
Neural circuits
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
White matter
03 medical and health sciences
Imaging, Three-Dimensional
0302 clinical medicine
Atlas (anatomy)
Diffeomorphisms
Complex
[INFO.INFO-IM]Computer Science [cs]/Medical Imaging
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
medicine
Biological neural network
Humans
Gray Matter
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
business.industry
Structural connectivity
Multi-object
Morphometry
Tourette
Shape
Bayes Theorem
Pattern recognition
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
White Matter
Computer Science Applications
medicine.anatomical_structure
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Atlas
Diffeomorphism
Artificial intelligence
business
Algorithms
Software
Tourette Syndrome
Shape analysis (digital geometry)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1558254X and 02780062
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....98adb18d2e2b619fdc811d1d57bbeb29