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TractLearn: A geodesic learning framework for quantitative analysis of brain bundles

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Deep learning-based convolutional neural networks have recently proved their efficiency in providing fast segmentation of major brain fascicles structures, based on diffusion-weighted imaging. The quantitative analysis of brain fascicles then relies on metrics either coming from the tractography process itself or from each voxel along the bundle. Statistical detection of abnormal voxels in the context of disease usually relies on univariate and multivariate statistics models, such as the General Linear Model (GLM). Yet in the case of high-dimensional low sample size data, the GLM often implies high standard deviation range in controls due to anatomical variability, despite the commonly used smoothing process. This can lead to difficulties to detect subtle quantitative alterations from a brain bundle at the voxel scale. Here we introduce TractLearn, a unified framework for brain fascicles quantitative analyses by using geodesic learning as a data-driven learning task. TractLearn allows a mapping between the image high-dimensional domain and the reduced latent space of brain fascicles using a Riemannian approach. We illustrate the robustness of this method on a healthy population with test-retest acquisition of multi-shell diffusion MRI data, demonstrating that it is possible to separately study the global effect due to different MRI sessions from the effect of local bundle alterations. We have then tested the efficiency of our algorithm on a sample of 5 age-matched subjects referred with mild traumatic brain injury. Our contributions are to propose: 1/ A manifold approach to capture controls variability as standard reference instead of an atlas approach based on a Euclidean mean. 2/ A tool to detect global variation of voxels' quantitative values, which accounts for voxels' interactions in a structure rather than analyzing voxels independently. 3/ A ready-to-plug algorithm to highlight nonlinear variation of diffusion MRI metrics. With this regard, TractLearn is a ready-to-use algorithm for precision medicine.
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hal-03222320 , version 1 (10-05-2021)

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Arnaud Attye, Felix Renard, Monica Baciu, Elise Roger, Laurent Lamalle, et al.. TractLearn: A geodesic learning framework for quantitative analysis of brain bundles. NeuroImage, 2021, 233, pp.117927. ⟨10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117927⟩. ⟨hal-03222320⟩
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