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CDMRI'08

MICCAI 2008 Workshop on
Computational Diffusion MRI

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Welcome

8:00-8:10

Oral Session I:

Modeling and Measuring Microstructure

8:10-9:30

Chairs:   A. Alexander and S. Mori

1.1

Estimation of the Axonal Radius from Diffusion MR Data in Directionally Heterogeneous Tissues

Rosario Sance, Andrés Santos, María J. Ledesma-Carbayo, Timothy Behrens, and Saad Jbabdi
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain; Center for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, University of Oxford, UK
1.2

A Tissue Model of White Matter Undergoing Tissue Swelling

Matt G Hall and Daniel C Alexander
University College London, UK
1.3

The Influence of Microscopic Shape Invariants in Diffusion MRI and on Time Correlations

Philip G Batchelor and Daniel C Alexander
King's College London, UK; University College London, UK
1.4

Gene Effects Mapped Using Fractional and Geodesic Anisotropy in Diffusion Tensor Images of 92 Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twins

Agatha D. Lee, Natasha Lepore, Marina Barysheva, Yiyu Chou, Caroline Brun, Sarah K. Madsen, Katie McMahon, Greig I. de Zubicaray, Margaret J. Wright, Arthur W. Toga, and Paul M. Thompson
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Break (posters)

9:30-10:15

Invited Talk 1

 

10:15-10:45

Chair:   X. Pennec

     

Volumetric Segmentation and Tract-Based Statistics of White Matter Pathways

Thomas Fletcher, University of Utah, USA

Oral Session II:

Tractography and Segmentation

10:45-11:45

Chairs:   R. Deriche and S. Jbabdi

2.1

Evaluation of Classification Trees for Fast Segmentation of White Matter Fiber Tracts

Arnaldo Mayer, Gali Zimmerman-Moreno, and Hayit Greenspan
Tel Aviv University, Israel
2.2

Probabilistic Diffusion Tractography with Spatial Priors

Anastasia Yendiki, Allison Stevens, Saad Jbabdi, Jean Augustinack, David Salat, Lilla Zollei, Tim Behrens, and Bruce Fischl
HMS/MGH/MIT Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, USA; University of Oxford, UK
2.3

A Fiber Tracking Method for Building Patient Specific Dynamic Musculoskeletal Models from Diffusion Tensor Data

David Levin, Benjamin Gilles, and Dinesh Pai
The University of British Columbia, Canada

Lunch (posters)

11:45-1:00

Invited Talk 2

 

1:00-1:30

Chair:   D. Alexander

     

Bayesian Methods in Diffusion-Weighted MRI

Saad Jbabdi, University of Oxford, UK

Oral Session III:

High Angular Resolution Methods

1:30-2:30

Chairs:   L. Frank and M. Hall

3.1

Robust Variational Estimation of PDF functions from Diffusion MR Signal

Haz-Edine Assemlal, David Tschumperle, and Luc Brun
GREYC-Ensicaen, France
3.2

Two Canonical Representations for Regularized High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging

Luc Florack and Evgeniya Balmashnova
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
3.3

A Study of Information Gain in High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI)

Alex Leow, Siwei Zhu, Katie McMahon, Greig de Zubicaray, Margie Wright, and Paul Thompson
University of California, Los Angeles, USA; The University of Queensland, Australia

Break (Posters)

2:30-3:45

Oral Session IV:

Pre and Post Processing

3:45-4:45

Chairs:   P. Batchelor and H. Zhang

4.1

Comparison of B0 Field Mapping Method and B-spline Image Registration Method in EPI Distortion Correction in Diffusion Tensor MRI

Minjie Wu, Lin-Ching Chang, Lindsay Walker, Herve Lemaitre, Alan S. Barnett, Stefano Marenco, and Carlo Pierpaoli
University of Pittsburgh, USA; NICHD, NIMH, National Institues of Health, USA; The Catholic University of America, USA
4.2

A Subdivision Approach to Tensor Field Interpolation

Tim McGraw and Inas Yassine
West Virginia University, USA
4.3

A Unified Parametric Model of White Matter Fiber Tracts

Moo K Chung, Jee Eun Lee, Gary Park, Mariana Lazar, Nicholas T. Lange, Janet E Lainhart, and Andrew L Alexander
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Harvard University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, USA; University of Utah, USA

Closing

4:45-5:00

Posters

1

Accelerated Persistent Angular Structure

Ken Sakaie
The Cleveland Clinic, USA
2

Adaptive Distance Learning Scheme for Diffusion Tensor Imaging using Kernel Target Alignment

Paulo Rodrigues, Thorsten Twellmann, Anna Vilanova, and Bart M. ter Haar Romenij
Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands; MeVis Medical Solutions AG, Germany
3

Brain Activation Detection Using Diffusion-Weighted and BOLD fMRI: a Comparative Study

Laurent Risser, Philippe Ciuciu, Toshihiko Aso, and Denis Le Bihan
CEA, France
4

Brain Fiber Architecture, Genetics, and Intelligence: A High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI) Study

Ming-Chang Chiang, Marina Barysheva, Agatha Lee, Sarah Madsen, Andrea Klunder, Arthur W. Toga, Katie L. McMahon, Greig I. de Zubicaray, Matthew Meredith, Margaret J. Wright, Anuj Srivastava, Nikolay Balov, and Paul M. Thompson
University of California, Los Angeles, USA; The University of Queensland, Australia; Florida State University, USA
5

Compressed Sensing of Multiple Intra-Voxel Orientations with Traditional DTI

Bennett Landman, John Bogovic, and Jerry Prince
Johns Hopkins University, USA
6

Early Detection of Treatment Response for GBM Brain Tumor using ADC Map of DW-MRI

Jing Huo, Whitney B. Pope, Kazunori Okada, Matthew Brown, Hyun J. Kim, Jeffry R. Alger, Johnothan Goldin, and Yang Wang
University of California, Los Angeles, USA; San Francisco State University, USA
7

A Fiber Tractography Based Examination of Neurodegeneration on Language-Network Neuroanatomy

Jeffrey Duda, Brian Avants, Jane Asmuth, Hui Zhang, Murray Grossman, and James Gee
University of Pennsylvania, USA
8

A Framework for Joint Analysis of Structural and Diffusion MRI

Ran Tao, P.Thomas Fletcher, and Ross T. Whitaker
University of Utah, USA
9

GTRACT: An Open Source Diffusion Tensor and Fiber Tracking Toolkit

Vincent Magnotta, Greg Harris, Madhura Ingalhalikar, and Xiaodong Tao
The University of Iowa, USA; GE Research, USA
10

How Many Gradients are Sufficient in High-Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI)?

Liang Zhan, Ming-Chang Chiang, Alex D. Leow, Siwei Zhu, Marina Barysheva, Arthur W. Toga, Katie L. McMahon, Greig I. de Zubicaray, Matthew Meredith, Margaret J. Wright, and Paul M.Thompson
University of California, Los Angeles, USA; The University of Queensland, Australia; Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia
11

Multiresolution decomposition of HARDI and ODF profiles using spherical wavelets

Irina Kezele, Maxime Descoteaux, Cyril Poupon, Pierrick Abrial, Fabrice Poupon, and Jean-François Mangin
NeuroSpin, CEA, France; IFR49, France; DAPNIA, CEA, France
12

A Polynomial Based Approach to Extract the Maxima of an Antipodally Symmetric Spherical Function and its Application to Extract Fiber Directions from the Orientation Distribution Function in Diffusion MRI

Aurobrata Ghosh, Elias Tsigaridas, Maxime Descoteaux, Pierre Comon, Bernard Mourrain, and Rachid Deriche
Neurospin, CEA, France; INRIA, France
13

A Simulation Environment for High Angular Resolution DTI

Gregory T. Balls and Lawrence R. Frank
University of California, San Diego, USA
14

Tensor Interpolation by Concise Local Estimation of Anisotropy and Rotation

Bennett Landman, Pierre-Louis Bazin, and Jerry Prince
Johns Hopkins University, USA
15

Tubular Fiber Bundle Segmentation for Diffusion Weighted Imaging

Marc Niethammer, Christopher Zach, John Melonakos, and Allen Tannenbaum
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA; Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
16

A Unbiased Non-Local Means Scheme for DWI Filtering

Santiago Aja-Fernandez and Karl Krissian
Universidad de Valladolid, Spain; Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
17

Visualization Tools for High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging

David Shattuck, Ming-Chang Chiang, Marina Barysheva, Katie McMahon, Greig de Zubicaray, Matthew Meredith, Margaret Wright, Arthur Toga, and Paul M. Thompson
University of California, Los Angeles, USA; The University of Queensland, Australia