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Statistical Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Statistical Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Imaging

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General Mathematics

ISBN10: 3847307878
ISBN13: 9783847307877
Publisher: Lap Lambert Academic Pub
Published: Dec 5 2011
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This thesis tackles three major challenges in diffusion tensor imaging analysis with statistical methodologies. We firstly develop a novel Bayesian multi-tensor model with reparameterisation for capturing water diffusion at voxels with one or more distinct fibre orientations. A mixture Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm is then developed to study the uncertainty of fibre orientations. Secondly, we apply non-Euclidean statistics to define the sample mean of diffusion tensor data which are employed for tensor field processing. In particular, Procrustes analysis, a powerful statistical shape analysis tool, is compared with the Log-Euclidean, Riemannian, Cholesky and power Euclidean approaches. A new anisotropy measure, Procrustes anisotropy, is defined. We finally use directional statistics to design uniformly distributed diffusion gradient direction schemes with different numbers of directions. All methods are illustrated through synthetic examples as well as white matter tractography of a healthy human brain.

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