Tractography dissection variability: What happens when 42 groups dissect 14 white matter bundles on the same dataset?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14110/21:00121156

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811921007758?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811921007758?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118502" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118502</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tractography dissection variability: What happens when 42 groups dissect 14 white matter bundles on the same dataset?

Original language description

White matter bundle segmentation using diffusion MRI fiber tractography has become the method of choice to identify white matter fiber pathways in vivo in human brains. However, like other analyses of complex data, there is considerable variability in segmentation protocols and techniques. This can result in different reconstructions of the same intended white matter pathways, which directly affects tractography results, quantification, and interpretation. In this study, we aim to evaluate and quantify the variability that arises from different protocols for bundle segmentation. Through an open call to users of fiber tractography, including anatomists, clinicians, and algorithm developers, 42 independent teams were given processed sets of human whole-brain streamlines and asked to segment 14 white matter fascicles on six subjects. In total, we received 57 different bundle segmentation protocols, which enabled detailed volume-based and streamline-based analyses of agreement and disagreement among protocols for each fiber pathway. Results show that even when given the exact same sets of underlying streamlines, the variability across protocols for bundle segmentation is greater than all other sources of variability in the virtual dissection process, including variability within protocols and variability across subjects. In order to foster the use of tractography bundle dissection in routine clinical settings, and as a fundamental analytical tool, future endeavors must aim to resolve and reduce this heterogeneity. Although external validation is needed to verify the anatomical accuracy of bundle dissections, reducing heterogeneity is a step towards reproducible research and may be achieved through the use of standard nomenclature and definitions of white matter bundles and well-chosen constraints and decisions in the dissection process.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30103 - Neurosciences (including psychophysiology)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

NeuroImage

ISSN

1053-8119

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

243

Issue of the periodical within the volume

NOV

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

118502

UT code for WoS article

000696941000003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85113362191