Evaluation of DTI property maps as basis of DTI atlas building

Zhexing Liu; Casey Goodlett; Guido Gerig; Martin Styner

doi:10.1117/12.844911

12 March 2010 Evaluation of DTI property maps as basis of DTI atlas building

Zhexing Liu, Casey Goodlett, Guido Gerig, Martin Styner

Proceedings Volume 7623, Medical Imaging 2010: Image Processing; 762325 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844911
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Compared to region of interest based DTI analysis, voxel-based analysis gives higher degree of localization and avoids the procedure of manual delineation with the resulting intra and inter-rater variability. One of the major challenges in voxel-wise DTI analysis is to get high quality voxel-level correspondence. For that purpose, current DTI analysis tools are building on nonlinear registration algorithms that deform individual datasets into a template image that is either precomputed or computed as part of the analysis. A variety of matching criteria and deformation schemes have been proposed, but often comparative evaluation is missing. In our opinion, the use of consistent and unbiased measures to evaluate current DTI procedures is of great importance and our work presents two possible measures. Specifically, we propose the evaluation criteria generalization and specificity, originally introduced by the shape modeling community, to evaluate and compare different DTI nonlinear warping results. These measures are of indirect nature and have a population wise view. Both measures incorporate information of the variability of the registration results in the template space via a voxel-wise PCA model. Thus far, we have used these measures to evaluate our own DTI analysis procedure employing fluid-based registration on scalar DTI maps. Generalization and specificity from tensor images in the template space were computed for 8 scalar property maps. We found that for our procedure an intensity-normalized FA feature outperformed the other scalar measurements. Also, using the tensor images rather than the FA maps as a comparison frame seemed to produce more robust results.

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Zhexing Liu, Casey Goodlett, Guido Gerig, and Martin Styner "Evaluation of DTI property maps as basis of DTI atlas building", Proc. SPIE 7623, Medical Imaging 2010: Image Processing, 762325 (12 March 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844911

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