Mapping population-based structural connectomes

Z Zhang, M Descoteaux, J Zhang, G Girard… - NeuroImage, 2018 - Elsevier
Advances in understanding the structural connectomes of human brain require improved
approaches for the construction, comparison and integration of high-dimensional whole …

Test–retest reproducibility of white matter parcellation using diffusion MRI tractography fiber clustering

F Zhang, Y Wu, I Norton, Y Rathi, AJ Golby… - Human brain …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
There are two popular approaches for automated white matter parcellation using diffusion
MRI tractography, including fiber clustering strategies that group white matter fibers …

[HTML][HTML] Blurred streamlines: A novel representation to reduce redundancy in tractography

I Gabusi, M Battocchio, S Bosticardo, S Schiavi… - Medical Image …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tractography is a powerful tool to study brain connectivity in vivo, but it is well known to
suffer from an intrinsic trade-off between sensitivity and specificity. A critical–but usually …

[HTML][HTML] Connectome spatial smoothing (CSS): Concepts, methods, and evaluation

C Seguin, RE Smith, A Zalesky - Neuroimage, 2022 - Elsevier
Structural connectomes are increasingly mapped at high spatial resolutions comprising
many hundreds—if not thousands—of network nodes. However, high-resolution …

Surface‐Based Connectivity Integration: An atlas‐free approach to jointly study functional and structural connectivity

M Cole, K Murray, E St‐Onge, B Risk… - Human Brain …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There has been increasing interest in jointly studying structural connectivity (SC) and
functional connectivity (FC) derived from diffusion and functional MRI. Previous connectome …

Suprathreshold fiber cluster statistics: Leveraging white matter geometry to enhance tractography statistical analysis

F Zhang, W Wu, L Ning, G McAnulty, D Waber… - NeuroImage, 2018 - Elsevier
This work presents a suprathreshold fiber cluster (STFC) method that leverages the whole
brain fiber geometry to enhance statistical group difference analyses. The proposed method …

Quantification of structural brain connectivity via a conductance model

A Frau-Pascual, M Fogarty, B Fischl, A Yendiki, I Aganj… - NeuroImage, 2019 - Elsevier
Connectomics has proved promising in quantifying and understanding the effects of
development, aging and an array of diseases on the brain. In this work, we propose a new …

CoCoNest: A continuous structural connectivity-based nested family of parcellations of the human cerebral cortex

A Allen, Z Zhang, A Nobel - Network Neuroscience, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Despite the widespread exploration and availability of parcellations for the functional
connectome, parcellations designed for the structural connectome are comparatively limited …

Continuous and atlas-free analysis of brain structural connectivity

W Consagra, M Cole, X Qiu… - The Annals of Applied …, 2024 - projecteuclid.org
Continuous and atlas-free analysis of brain structural connectivity Page 1 The Annals of Applied
Statistics 2024, Vol. 18, No. 3, 1815–1839 https://doi.org/10.1214/23-AOAS1858 © Institute of …

Analyzing brain structural connectivity as continuous random functions

W Consagra, M Cole, Z Zhang - International Conference on Medical …, 2022 - Springer
This work considers a continuous framework to characterize the population-level variability
of structural connectivity. Our framework assumes the observed white matter fiber tract …