Confidence mapping in diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging tractography using a bootstrap approach

DK Jones, C Pierpaoli - … in Medicine: An Official Journal of the …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The bootstrap technique is an extremely powerful nonparametric statistical procedure for
determining the uncertainty in a given statistic. However, its use in diffusion tensor MRI …

Tractography gone wild: probabilistic fibre tracking using the wild bootstrap with diffusion tensor MRI

DK Jones - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) permits the noninvasive assessment
of tissue microstructure and, with fibre-tracking algorithms, allows for the 3-D trajectories of …

Inference of multiple fiber orientations in high angular resolution diffusion imaging

T Hosey, G Williams, R Ansorge - Magnetic Resonance in …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
A method is presented that is capable of determining more than one fiber orientation within a
single voxel in high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) data sets. This method is …

Determining and visualizing uncertainty in estimates of fiber orientation from diffusion tensor MRI

DK Jones - Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: An Official …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Diffusion tensor MRI (DT‐MRI) permits determination of the dominant orientation of
structured tissue within an image voxel. This has led to the development of 2D graphical …

The effect of gradient sampling schemes on measures derived from diffusion tensor MRI: a Monte Carlo study

DK Jones - Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: An Official …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
There are conflicting opinions in the literature as to whether it is more beneficial to use a
large number of gradient sampling orientations in diffusion tensor MRI (DT‐MRI) …

Characterization and propagation of uncertainty in diffusion‐weighted MR imaging

TEJ Behrens, MW Woolrich… - … in Medicine: An …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
A fully probabilistic framework is presented for estimating local probability density functions
on parameters of interest in a model of diffusion. This technique is applied to the estimation …

Limitations and requirements of diffusion tensor fiber tracking: an assessment using simulations

JD Tournier, F Calamante, MD King… - … in Medicine: An …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion tensor fiber tracking potentially can give information about in vivo brain
connectivity. However, this technique is difficult to validate due to the lack of a gold standard …

Comparison of bootstrap approaches for estimation of uncertainties of DTI parameters

SW Chung, Y Lu, RG Henry - NeuroImage, 2006 - Elsevier
Bootstrap is an empirical non-parametric statistical technique based on data resampling that
has been used to quantify uncertainties of diffusion tensor MRI (DTI) parameters, useful in …

Analysis of noise effects on DTI‐based tractography using the brute‐force and multi‐ROI approach

H Huang, J Zhang, PCM Van Zijl… - Magnetic Resonance in …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion tensor tractography based on line propagation is a promising and widely used
technique, but it is known to be sensitive to noise and the size and location of the seed …

Theoretical analysis of the effects of noise on diffusion tensor imaging

AW Anderson - Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: An Official …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
A theoretical framework is presented for understanding the effects of noise on estimates of
the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the diffusion tensor at moderate to high signal‐to‐noise …