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This paper proposes a method to infer a high level model of the white matter organization from a population of subjects using MR diffusion imaging. This method takes as input for each subject a set of trajectories stemming from any tracking algorithm. Then the inference results from two nested clustering stages. The first clustering converts each individual set of trajectories into a set of bundles supposed to represent large white matter pathways. The second clustering matches these bundles across subjects in order to provide a list of candidates for the bundle model. The method is applied on a population of eleven subjects and leads to the inference of 17 such candidates.
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El Kouby, V. et al. (2005). MR Diffusion-Based Inference of a Fiber Bundle Model from a Population of Subjects. In: Duncan, J.S., Gerig, G. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2005. MICCAI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3749. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11566465_25
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