A coherence enhancing penalty for diffusion MRI: regularizing property and discrete approximation

DOI10.1137/140998767zbMATH Open1330.94007arXiv1412.1439OpenAlexW1668002895MaRDI QIDQ3454473FDOQ3454473

Authors: Thorsten Hohage, Christoph Rügge 

Publication date: 25 November 2015

Published in: SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Processing of Diffusion MRI data obtained from High Angular Resolution measurements consists of a series of steps, starting with the estimation of an orientation distribution function (ODF), which is then used as input for e.g. tractography algorithms. It is important that ODF reconstruction methods yield accurate, coherent ODFs, in particular for low SNR or coarsely sampled data sets. As the diffusion process is modelled independently in each voxel, reconstructions are often carried out for each voxel separately, disregarding the observation that neighboring voxels are often quite similar if they belong to the same fiber structure. There are surprisingly few approaches that make use of this kind of spatial regularity to improve coherence and stability of the reconstruction. In this work, we focus on a variation of a method proposed by Reisert and Kiselev based on the concept of fiber continuity. The method has already been shown to yield good numerical results, but has not yet been analyzed theoretically. Under suitable smoothness assumptions, we apply results on constrained Tikhonov-type regularization with approximate operator to show convergence of reconstructions from discrete, noisy data for linear forward models. Further, we numerically illustrate the performance of the method on phantom and in-vivo data.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1439

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zbMATH Keywords

convergence analysisspherical deconvolutionDW-MRIspatial regularization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08) Numerical solutions of ill-posed problems in abstract spaces; regularization (65J20)

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• MRtrix

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