TY - GEN
T1 - ODF maxima extraction in spherical harmonic representation via analytical search space reduction
AU - Aganj, Iman
AU - Lenglet, Christophe
AU - Sapiro, Guillermo
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - By revealing complex fiber structure through the orientation distribution function (ODF), q-ball imaging has recently become a popular reconstruction technique in diffusion-weighted MRI. In this paper, we propose an analytical dimension reduction approach to ODF maxima extraction. We show that by expressing the ODF, or any antipodally symmetric spherical function, in the common fourth order real and symmetric spherical harmonic basis, the maxima of the two-dimensional ODF lie on an analytically derived one-dimensional space, from which we can detect the ODF maxima. This method reduces the computational complexity of the maxima detection, without compromising the accuracy. We demonstrate the performance of our technique on both artificial and human brain data.
AB - By revealing complex fiber structure through the orientation distribution function (ODF), q-ball imaging has recently become a popular reconstruction technique in diffusion-weighted MRI. In this paper, we propose an analytical dimension reduction approach to ODF maxima extraction. We show that by expressing the ODF, or any antipodally symmetric spherical function, in the common fourth order real and symmetric spherical harmonic basis, the maxima of the two-dimensional ODF lie on an analytically derived one-dimensional space, from which we can detect the ODF maxima. This method reduces the computational complexity of the maxima detection, without compromising the accuracy. We demonstrate the performance of our technique on both artificial and human brain data.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-15745-5_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-15745-5_11
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 20879302
AN - SCOPUS:80055063492
SN - 3642157440
SN - 9783642157448
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 84
EP - 91
BT - Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI2010 - 13th International Conference, Proceedings
T2 - 13th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2010
Y2 - 20 September 2010 through 24 September 2010
ER -