@article {627, title = {Adjugate Diffusion Tensors for Geodesic Tractography in White Matter}, journal = {Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision}, volume = {54}, year = {2015}, pages = {1{\textendash}14}, abstract = {

One of the approaches in diffusion tensor imaging is to consider a Riemannian metric given by the inverse diffusion tensor. Such a metric is used for geodesic tractography and connectivity analysis in white matter. We propose a metric tensor given by the adjugate rather than the previously proposed inverse diffusion tensor. The adjugate metric can also be employed in the sharpening framework. Tractography experiments on synthetic and real brain diffusion data show improvement for high-curvature tracts and in the vicinity of isotropic diffusion regions relative to most results for inverse (sharpened) diffusion tensors, and especially on real data. In addition, adjugate tensors are shown to be more robust to noise.

}, issn = {1573-7683}, doi = {10.1007/s10851-015-0586-8}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10851-015-0586-8}, author = {Andrea Fuster and Tom Dela-Haije and Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Birgit Plantinga and Carl-Fredik Westin and Luc Florack} } @article {476, title = {Localized abnormalities in the cingulum bundle in patients with schizophrenia: A Diffusion Tensor tractography study}, journal = {NeuroImage: Clinical}, volume = {5}, year = {2014}, pages = {93{\textendash}99}, abstract = {

The cingulum bundle (CB) connects gray matter structures of the limbic system and as such has been implicated in the etiology of schizophrenia. There is growing evidence to suggest that the CB is actually comprised of a conglomeration of discrete sub-connections. The present study aimed to use Diffusion Tensor tractography to subdivide the CB into its constituent sub-connections, and to investigate the structural integrity of these sub-connections in patients with schizophrenia and matched healthy controls. Diffusion Tensor Imaging scans were acquired from 24 patients diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia and 26 matched healthy controls. Deterministic tractography was used in conjunction with FreeSurfer-based regions-of-interest to subdivide the CB into 5 sub-connections (I1 to I5). The patients with schizophrenia exhibited subnormal levels of FA in two cingulum sub-connections, specifically the fibers connecting the rostral and caudal anterior cingulate gyrus (I1) and the fibers connecting the isthmus of the cingulate with the parahippocampal cortex (I4). Furthermore, while FA in the I1 sub-connection was correlated with the severity of patients{\textquoteright} positive symptoms (specifically hallucinations and delusions), FA in the I4 sub-connection was correlated with the severity of patients{\textquoteright} negative symptoms (specifically affective flattening and anhedonia/asociality). These results support the notion that the CB is a conglomeration of structurally interconnected yet functionally distinct sub-connections, of which only a subset are abnormal in patients with schizophrenia. Furthermore, while acknowledging the fact that the present study only investigated the CB, these results suggest that the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia may have distinct neurobiological underpinnings.

}, author = {Whitford, Thomas J and Lee, Sun Woo and Oh, Jungsu S and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Savadjiev, Peter and Alvarado, Jorge L and Carl-Fredik Westin and Niznikiewicz, Margaret and Nestor, Paul G and McCarley, Robert W} } @article {ruiz2013advanced, title = {Advanced signal processing methods for biomedical imaging}, journal = {International journal of biomedical imaging}, volume = {2013}, year = {2013}, publisher = {Hindawi Publishing Corporation}, author = {Juan Ruiz-Alzola and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @article {de2013geometrical, title = {Geometrical constraints for robust tractography selection}, journal = {NeuroImage}, volume = {81}, year = {2013}, pages = {26{\textendash}48}, publisher = {Academic Press}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carl-Fredik Westin and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @conference {tristan2012deblurring, title = {Deblurring of probabilistic ODFs in quantitative diffusion MRI}, booktitle = {Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2012 9th IEEE International Symposium on}, year = {2012}, pages = {932{\textendash}935}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, author = {Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @article {tristan2012efficient, title = {Efficient and robust nonlocal means denoising of MR data based on salient features matching}, journal = {Computer methods and programs in biomedicine}, volume = {105}, number = {2}, year = {2012}, pages = {131{\textendash}144}, publisher = {Elsevier}, author = {Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Ver{\'o}nica Garc{\'\i}a-P{\'e}rez and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @article {tristan2012least, title = {Least squares for diffusion tensor estimation revisited: Propagation of uncertainty with Rician and non-Rician signals}, journal = {NeuroImage}, volume = {59}, number = {4}, year = {2012}, pages = {4032{\textendash}4043}, publisher = {Academic Press}, author = {Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @article {casaseca2012optimal, title = {Optimal real-time estimation in diffusion tensor imaging}, journal = {Magnetic resonance imaging}, volume = {30}, number = {4}, year = {2012}, pages = {506{\textendash}517}, publisher = {Elsevier}, author = {Pablo Casaseca-de-la-Higuera and Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Carl-Fredik Westin and Raul San Jose-Estepar} } @inbook {de2012choice, title = {On the choice of a tensor distance for DTI white matter segmentation}, booktitle = {New Developments in the Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields}, year = {2012}, pages = {283{\textendash}306}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @article {de2011gaussian, title = {Gaussian mixtures on tensor fields for segmentation: Applications to medical imaging}, journal = {Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics}, volume = {35}, number = {1}, year = {2011}, pages = {16{\textendash}30}, publisher = {Elsevier}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carl-Fredik Westin and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @article {tristan2010new, title = {A new methodology for the estimation of fiber populations in the white matter of the brain with the Funk{\textendash}Radon transform}, journal = {NeuroImage}, volume = {49}, number = {2}, year = {2010}, pages = {1301{\textendash}1315}, publisher = {Academic Press}, author = {Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Carl-Fredik Westin and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez} } @article {martin2009addendum, title = {Addendum to {\textquotedblleft}Sequential anisotropic multichannel Wiener filtering with Rician bias correction applied to 3D regularization of DWI data{\textquotedblright}[Medical Image Analysis 13 (2009) 19{\textendash}35]}, journal = {Medical image analysis}, volume = {13}, number = {6}, year = {2009}, pages = {910}, publisher = {Elsevier}, author = {Marcos Martin-Fernandez and Emma Mu{\~n}oz-Moreno and Cammoun, Leila and J-P Thiran and Carl-Fredik Westin and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @conference {478, title = {Automatic segmentation of white matter structures from DTI using tensor invariants and tensor orientation}, booktitle = {Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med}, year = {2009}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Lopez, C Alberola and Kindlmann, G and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @inbook {tristan2009bias, title = {Bias of least squares approaches for diffusion tensor estimation from array coils in DT{\textendash}MRI}, booktitle = {Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention{\textendash}MICCAI 2009}, year = {2009}, pages = {919{\textendash}926}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, author = {Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Carl-Fredik Westin and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez} } @inbook {tristan2009blurring, title = {On the Blurring of the Funk{\textendash}Radon Transform in Q{\textendash}Ball Imaging}, booktitle = {Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention{\textendash}MICCAI 2009}, year = {2009}, pages = {415{\textendash}422}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, author = {Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @article {tristan2009estimation, title = {Estimation of fiber orientation probability density functions in high angular resolution diffusion imaging}, journal = {NeuroImage}, volume = {47}, number = {2}, year = {2009}, pages = {638{\textendash}650}, publisher = {Elsevier}, author = {Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Carl-Fredik Westin and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez} } @inbook {de2009segmentation, title = {Segmentation of tensor fields: Recent advances and perspectives}, booktitle = {Tensors in Image Processing and Computer Vision}, year = {2009}, pages = {35{\textendash}58}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @article {martin2009sequential, title = {Sequential anisotropic multichannel Wiener filtering with Rician bias correction applied to 3D regularization of DWI data}, journal = {Medical image analysis}, volume = {13}, number = {1}, year = {2009}, pages = {19{\textendash}35}, publisher = {Elsevier}, author = {Marcos Martin-Fernandez and Emma Mu{\~n}oz-Moreno and Cammoun, Leila and J-P Thiran and Carl-Fredik Westin and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @article {aja2008noise, title = {Noise and signal estimation in magnitude MRI and Rician distributed images: a LMMSE approach}, journal = {Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on}, volume = {17}, number = {8}, year = {2008}, pages = {1383{\textendash}1398}, publisher = {IEEE}, author = {Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @article {aja2008restoration, title = {Restoration of DWI data using a Rician LMMSE estimator}, journal = {Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on}, volume = {27}, number = {10}, year = {2008}, pages = {1389{\textendash}1403}, publisher = {IEEE}, author = {Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Niethammer, Marc and Kubicki, Marek and Martha E Shenton and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @inbook {niethammer2007outlier, title = {Outlier rejection for diffusion weighted imaging}, booktitle = {Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention{\textendash}MICCAI 2007}, year = {2007}, pages = {161{\textendash}168}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, author = {Niethammer, Marc and Bouix, Sylvain and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Carl-Fredik Westin and Martha E Shenton} } @article {martin2007sequential, title = {Sequential anisotropic Wiener filtering applied to 3D MRI data}, journal = {Magnetic resonance imaging}, volume = {25}, number = {2}, year = {2007}, pages = {278{\textendash}292}, publisher = {Elsevier}, author = {Marcos Martin-Fernandez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Juan Ruiz-Alzola and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @inbook {aja2007signal, title = {Signal LMMSE estimation from multiple samples in MRI and DT-MRI}, booktitle = {Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention{\textendash}MICCAI 2007}, year = {2007}, pages = {368{\textendash}375}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, author = {Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @proceedings {aja2006image, title = {Image quality assessment based on local variance}, year = {2006}, pages = {4815{\textendash}4818}, author = {Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Raul San Jose-Estepar and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @inbook {westin2006tensor, title = {Tensor field regularization using normalized convolution and markov random fields in a bayesian framework}, booktitle = {Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields}, year = {2006}, pages = {381{\textendash}398}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, author = {Carl-Fredik Westin and Marcos Martin-Fernandez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Juan Ruiz-Alzola and Knutsson, Hans} } @article {palacios2005group, title = {Group-Slicer: A collaborative extension of 3D-Slicer}, journal = {Journal of Biomedical Informatics}, volume = {38}, year = {2005}, pages = {431{\textendash}442}, author = {Federico Simmross-Wattenberg and Palacios-Camarero, Cristina and Pablo Casaseca-de-la-Higuera and Miguel Angel Martin-Fernandez and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Juan Ruiz-Alzola and Carl-Fredik Westin and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @article {ruiz2005kriging, title = {Kriging filters for multidimensional signal processing}, journal = {Signal Processing}, volume = {85}, number = {2}, year = {2005}, pages = {413{\textendash}439}, publisher = {Elsevier}, author = {Juan Ruiz-Alzola and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @inbook {ruiz2005landmark, title = {Landmark-Based Registration of Medical-Image Data}, booktitle = {Medical Image Analysis Methods, Edited by Lena Costaridou, CRC Press}, year = {2005}, author = {Juan Ruiz-Alzola and Suarez-Santana, E and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @inbook {martin20043d, title = {3D Bayesian regularization of diffusion tensor MRI using multivariate Gaussian Markov random fields}, booktitle = {Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention{\textendash}MICCAI 2004}, year = {2004}, pages = {351{\textendash}359}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, author = {Marcos Martin-Fernandez and Carl-Fredik Westin and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @inbook {jose2003lncs, title = {Freehand Ultrasound Reconstruction Based on ROI Prior Modeling and Normalized Convolution}, booktitle = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {2879}, year = {2003}, pages = {382{\textendash}390}, publisher = {Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1973-}, organization = {Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1973-}, author = {Raul San Jose-Estepar and Marcos Martin-Fernandez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Ellsmere, James and Kikinis, Ron and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @inbook {jose2003freehand, title = {Freehand Ultrasound Reconstruction Based on ROI Prior Modeling and Normalized Convolution}, booktitle = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {2879}, year = {2003}, pages = {382{\textendash}390}, publisher = {Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1973-}, organization = {Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1973-}, author = {Raul San Jose-Estepar and Marcos Martin-Fernandez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Ellsmere, James and Kikinis, Ron and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @inbook {ruiz2003geostatistical, title = {Geostatistical medical image registration}, booktitle = {Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention-MICCAI 2003}, year = {2003}, pages = {894{\textendash}901}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, author = {Juan Ruiz-Alzola and Suarez, Eduardo and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Warfield, Simon K and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @inbook {martin2003regularization, title = {Regularization of Diffusion Tensor Maps Using a Non-Gaussian Markov Random Field Approach}, booktitle = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {2879}, year = {2003}, pages = {92{\textendash}100}, publisher = {Berlin: Springer-Verlag}, organization = {Berlin: Springer-Verlag}, author = {Marcos Martin-Fernandez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Juan Ruiz-Alzola and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @inbook {martin2003novel, title = {A novel Gauss-Markov random field approach for regularization of diffusion tensor maps}, booktitle = {Computer Aided Systems Theory-EUROCAST 2003}, year = {2003}, pages = {506{\textendash}517}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, author = {Marcos Martin-Fernandez and Raul San Jose-Estepar and Carl-Fredik Westin and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} }