""" ================================================= Particle Filtering Tractography ================================================= Particle Filtering Tractography (PFT) [Girard2014]_ uses tissue partial volume estimation (PVE) to reconstruct trajectories connecting the gray matter, and not incorrectly stopping in the white matter or in the corticospinal fluid. It relies on a tissue classifier that identifies the tissue where the streamline stopped. If the streamline correctly stopped in the gray matter, the trajectory is kept. If the streamline incorrecly stopped in the white matter or in the corticospinal fluid, PFT uses anatomical information to find an alternative streamline segment to extend the trajectory. When this segment is found, the tractography continues until the streamline correctly stops in the gray matter. PFT finds an alternative streamline segment whenever the tissue classifier returns a position classified as 'INVALIDPOINT'. This example is an extension of the :ref:`probabilistic_fiber_tracking` example. We begin by loading the data, fitting a Constrained Spherical Deconvolution (CSD) reconstruction model and creating the probabilistic direction getter. """ import numpy as np from dipy.data import (read_stanford_labels, default_sphere, read_stanford_pve_maps) from dipy.direction import ProbabilisticDirectionGetter from dipy.io.streamline import save_trk from dipy.reconst.csdeconv import (ConstrainedSphericalDeconvModel, auto_response) from dipy.tracking.local import LocalTracking, ParticleFilteringTracking from dipy.tracking import utils from dipy.viz import window, actor, colormap as cmap renderer = window.Renderer() img_pve_csf, img_pve_gm, img_pve_wm = read_stanford_pve_maps() hardi_img, gtab, labels_img = read_stanford_labels() data = hardi_img.get_data() labels = labels_img.get_data() affine = hardi_img.affine shape = labels.shape response, ratio = auto_response(gtab, data, roi_radius=10, fa_thr=0.7) csd_model = ConstrainedSphericalDeconvModel(gtab, response) csd_fit = csd_model.fit(data, mask=img_pve_wm.get_data()) dg = ProbabilisticDirectionGetter.from_shcoeff(csd_fit.shm_coeff, max_angle=20., sphere=default_sphere) """ CMC/ACT Tissue Classifiers --------------------- Continuous map criterion (CMC) [Girard2014]_ and Anatomically-constrained tractography (ACT) [Smith2012]_ both uses PVEs information from anatomical images to determine when the tractography stops. Both tissue classifiers use a trilinear interpolation at the tracking position. CMC tissue classifier uses a probability derived from the PVE maps to determine if the streamline reaches a 'valid' or 'invalid' region. ACT uses a fixed threshold on the PVE maps. Both tissue classifiers can be used in conjunction with PFT. In this example, we used CMC. """ from dipy.tracking.local import CmcTissueClassifier from dipy.tracking.streamline import Streamlines voxel_size = np.average(img_pve_wm.get_header()['pixdim'][1:4]) step_size = 0.2 cmc_classifier = CmcTissueClassifier.from_pve(img_pve_wm.get_data(), img_pve_gm.get_data(), img_pve_csf.get_data(), step_size=step_size, average_voxel_size=voxel_size) # seeds are place in voxel of the corpus callosum containing only white matter seed_mask = labels == 2 seed_mask[img_pve_wm.get_data() < 0.5] = 0 seeds = utils.seeds_from_mask(seed_mask, density=2, affine=affine) # Particle Filtering Tractography pft_streamline_generator = ParticleFilteringTracking(dg, cmc_classifier, seeds, affine, max_cross=1, step_size=step_size, maxlen=1000, pft_back_tracking_dist=2, pft_front_tracking_dist=1, particle_count=15, return_all=False) # streamlines = list(pft_streamline_generator) streamlines = Streamlines(pft_streamline_generator) save_trk("pft_streamline.trk", streamlines, affine, shape) renderer.clear() renderer.add(actor.line(streamlines, cmap.line_colors(streamlines))) window.record(renderer, out_path='pft_streamlines.png', size=(600, 600)) """ .. figure:: pft_streamlines.png :align: center **Particle Filtering Tractography** """ # Local Probabilistic Tractography prob_streamline_generator = LocalTracking(dg, cmc_classifier, seeds, affine, max_cross=1, step_size=step_size, maxlen=1000, return_all=False) # streamlines = list(pro) streamlines = Streamlines(prob_streamline_generator) save_trk("probabilistic_streamlines.trk", streamlines, affine, shape) renderer.clear() renderer.add(actor.line(streamlines, cmap.line_colors(streamlines))) window.record(renderer, out_path='probabilistic_streamlines.png', size=(600, 600)) """ .. figure:: probabilistic_streamlines.png :align: center **Probabilistic Tractography** """ """ References ---------- .. [Girard2014] Girard, G., Whittingstall, K., Deriche, R., & Descoteaux, M. Towards quantitative connectivity analysis: reducing tractography biases. NeuroImage, 98, 266-278, 2014. .. [Smith2012] Smith, R. E., Tournier, J.-D., Calamante, F., & Connelly, A. Anatomically-constrained tractography: Improved diffusion MRI streamlines tractography through effective use of anatomical information. NeuroImage, 63(3), 1924-1938, 2012. """