Abstract #2629
            Fast and robust detection of the optimal number of fascicles in diffusion images using model averaging theory
                      Aymeric Stamm                     1                    , Benoit Scherrer                     1                    , 						Olivier Commowick                     2                    , Christian Barillot                     3                    , 						and Simon Warfield                     1          
            
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           Computational Radiology Laboratory, Boston 
						Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States,
           
            2
           
           VISAGES, 
						INRIA, Rennes, France, Metropolitan,
           
            3
           
           VISAGES, 
						CNRS, Rennes, France, Metropolitan
          
            
          It is well known that the white matter has a complex 
						architecture composed mainly of axon bundles or 
						fascicles and glial cells. Fascicles cross in most parts 
						of the white matter and multi-compartment models have 
						been devised to study this complex microstructure. These 
						models require that the number of compartments is known 
						a priori, which is not the case in practice. In 
						particular, determining the number of fascicles is 
						difficult. It can however be reliably estimated from the 
						generalization error at the cost of huge computational 
						time. We propose a novel approach that relies on model 
						averaging theory and generates the same results as the 
						generalization error in a dramatically reduced 
						computational time.
         
 
            
				
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