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Abstract #0701

Looking Inside a Voxel through the Lenses of Non-Gaussian Diffusion MRI: Correlation between Imaging- and Histology-based Tissue Heterogeneity

Muge Karaman1,2, Guangyu Dan1,2, Lingdao Sha3, Tingqi Shi1, Weiguo Li4,5, Dan Schonfeld2,3,6, Tibor Valyi-Nagy7, and X. Joe Zhou1,2,8
1Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 2Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 4Research Resources Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 5Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States, 6Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 7Department of Pathology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 8Departments of Radiology and Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Studies on tissue structural heterogeneity have been the focus of a growing number of non-Gaussian diffusion models, such as the continuous-time random-walk (CTRW) model. Establishing a correlation between the voxel-level CTRW parameters and the microscopic tissue heterogeneity from gold-standard histology, however, has been challenging due to the lack of quantitative measure of histopathological heterogeneity and different spatial scales. We establish a one-to-one correspondence between imaging-based tissue heterogeneity revealed by CTRW parameters and histology-based tissue structural heterogeneity predicted by a machine-learning classifier to address an overarching question: “Can we look inside a voxel noninvasively through the lenses of the CTRW model?”.

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