Journal article
Towards deep learning for connectome mapping: A block decomposition framework
Tabinda Sarwar, Caio Seguin, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Andrew Zalesky
NeuroImage | ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE | Published : 2020
Abstract
We propose a new framework to map structural connectomes using deep learning and diffusion MRI. We show that our framework not only enables connectome mapping with a convolutional neural network (CNN), but can also be straightforwardly incorporated into conventional connectome mapping pipelines to enhance accuracy. Our framework involves decomposing the entire brain volume into overlapping blocks. Blocks are sufficiently small to ensure that a CNN can be efficiently trained to predict each block's internal connectivity architecture. We develop a block stitching algorithm to rebuild the full brain volume from these blocks and thereby map end-to-end connectivity matrices. To evaluate our block..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Data were provided (in part) by the Human Connectome Project, WUMinn Consortium (Principal Investigators: David Van Essen and Kamil Ugurbil; 1U54MH091657) funded by the 16 NIH Institutes and Centers that support the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research; and by the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience at Washington University.This research was undertaken using the LIEF HPC-GPGPU Facility hosted at the University of Melbourne. This Facility was established with the assistance of LIEF Grant LE170100200.