Paulo
Rodrigues1, Andrei Jalba2, Pierre Fillard3,
Anna Vilanova1, Bart M. ter Haar Romeny1
1Biomedical Image Analysis, Eindhoven
University of Technology, Eindhoven, Noord Brabant, Netherlands; 2Department
of Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Noord
Brabant, Netherlands; 3CEA, Paris, France
The
investigation of Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) data is of complex and exploratory
nature: tensors, fiber tracts, bundles. This quickly leads to clutter
problems in visualization as well as in analysis. We propose a new framework
for the multi-resolution analysis of DTI. Based on fast and greedy watersheds
operating on a multi-scale representation of a DTI image, a hierarchical
depiction of such image is determined conveying a global-to-local view of the
fibrous structure of the analysed tissue. We present a simple and interactive
segmentation tool, where different bundles can be segmented at different
resolutions.
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