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Functional MRI registration with tissue‐specific patch‐based functional correlation tensors

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Population studies of brain function with resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs‐fMRI) rely on accurate intersubject registration of functional areas. This is typically achieved through registration using high‐resolution structural images… Click to show full abstract

Population studies of brain function with resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs‐fMRI) rely on accurate intersubject registration of functional areas. This is typically achieved through registration using high‐resolution structural images with more spatial details and better tissue contrast. However, accumulating evidence has suggested that such strategy cannot align functional regions well because functional areas are not necessarily consistent with anatomical structures. To alleviate this problem, a number of registration algorithms based directly on rs‐fMRI data have been developed, most of which utilize functional connectivity (FC) features for registration. However, most of these methods usually extract functional features only from the thin and highly curved cortical grey matter (GM), posing great challenges to accurate estimation of whole‐brain deformation fields. In this article, we demonstrate that additional useful functional features can also be extracted from the whole brain, not restricted to the GM, particularly the white‐matter (WM), for improving the overall functional registration. Specifically, we quantify local anisotropic correlation patterns of the blood oxygenation level‐dependent (BOLD) signals using tissue‐specific patch‐based functional correlation tensors (ts‐PFCTs) in both GM and WM. Functional registration is then performed by integrating the features from different tissues using the multi‐channel large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping (mLDDMM) algorithm. Experimental results show that our method achieves superior functional registration performance, compared with conventional registration methods.

Keywords: tissue specific; tissue; correlation; specific patch; registration; patch based

Journal Title: Human Brain Mapping
Year Published: 2018

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