Intermediate templates guided groupwise registration of diffusion tensor images

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 928 - 939
• Main Authors: Jia, Hongjun, Yap, Pew-Thian, Wu, Guorong, Wang, Qian, Shen, Dinggang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 15.01.2011; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Brain - physiology; Brain Mapping - methods; Construction; Diffusion; Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Diffusion tensor image; Fiber tract alignment; Groupwise registration; Humans; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted - methods; Image processing; Image registration; Intermediate templates; Methods; Minimum spanning tree (MST); Neurological diseases; Population; Principal components analysis; Statistical analysis; Substantia alba; Fiber tract alignment; Image registration; Diffusion tensor image; Intermediate templates; Minimum spanning tree (MST); Groupwise registration

Registration of a population of diffusion tensor images (DTIs) is one of the key steps in medical image analysis, and it plays an important role in the statistical analysis of white matter related neurological diseases. However, pairwise registration with respect to a pre-selected template may not g...