In connectomics, tractography involves tracing connections across gray-white matter boundaries in gyral blades of complex cortical convolutions. To date, most tractography algorithms exhibit gyral bias with fiber streamlines preferentially terminating at gyral crowns rather than sulcal banks or fundi. In this work, we will demonstrate that a multi-tissue global estimation framework of the asymmetric fiber orientation distribution function (AFODF) will mitigate the effects of gyral bias and will allow fiber streamlines at gyral blades to make sharper turns into the cortical gray matter. This is validated using in-vivo data from the Human Connectome Project (HCP), showing that, in a typical gyral blade with high curvature, the fiber streamlines estimated using AFODFs bend more naturally into the cortex than FODFs. Furthermore, we show that AFODF tractography results in better cortico-cortical connectivity.
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Wu, Y., Feng, Y., Shen, D., & Yap, P. T. (2018). A multi-tissue global estimation framework for asymmetric fiber orientation distributions. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 11072 LNCS, pp. 45–52). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00931-1_6
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