TY  - JOUR
VL  - 33
PB  - IEEE
A1  - Daducci, Alessandro
A1  - Canales-Rodriguez, Erick Jorge
A1  - Descoteaux, Maxime
A1  - Garyfallidis, Eleftherios
A1  - Gur, Yaniv
A1  - Lin, Ying-Chia
A1  - Mani, Merry
A1  - Merlet, Sylvain
A1  - Paquette, Michael
A1  - Ramirez-Manzanares, Alonso
A1  - Reisert, Marco
A1  - Reis Rodrigues, Paulo
A1  - Sepehrband, Farshid
A1  - Caruyer, Emmanuel
A1  - Choupan, Jeiran
A1  - Deriche, Rachid
A1  - Jacob, Matthew
A1  - Menegaz, Gloria
A1  - Prckovska, Vesna
A1  - Rivera, Mariano
A1  - Wiaux, Yves
A1  - Thiran, Jean-Philippe
SP  - 384
Y1  - 2014/02//
IS  - 2
JF  - IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
ID  - eprints2421
EP  - 399
SN  - 0278-0062
N2  - Validation is arguably the bottleneck in the diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) community. This paper evaluates and compares 20 algorithms for recovering the local intra-voxel fiber structure from diffusion MRI data and is based on the results of the ?HARDI reconstruction challenge? organized in the context of the ?ISBI 2012? conference. Evaluated methods encompass a mixture of classical techniques well known in the literature such as diffusion tensor, Q-Ball and diffusion spectrum imaging, algorithms inspired by the recent theory of compressed sensing and also brand new approaches proposed for the first time at this contest. To quantitatively compare the methods under controlled conditions, two datasets with known ground-truth were synthetically generated and two main criteria were used to evaluate the quality of the reconstructions in every voxel: correct assessment of the number of fiber populations and angular accuracy in their orientation. This comparative study investigates the behavior of every algorithm with varying experimental conditions and highlights strengths and weaknesses of each approach. This information can be useful not only for enhancing current algorithms and develop the next generation of reconstruction methods, but also to assist physicians in the choice of the most adequate technique for their studies.
KW  - Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI); local reconstruction; quantitative comparison; synthetic data; validation
TI  - Quantitative comparison of reconstruction methods for intra-voxel fiber recovery from diffusion MRI
AV  - none
UR  - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6630106&isnumber=6729093
ER  -