""" =========================================== Tractography Clustering - Available Metrics =========================================== This page lists available metrics that can be used by the tractography clustering framework. For every metric a brief description is provided explaining: what it does, when it's useful and how to use it. If you are not familiar with the tractography clustering framework, check this tutorial :ref:`clustering-framework`. .. contents:: Available Metrics :local: :depth: 1 **Note**: All examples assume a function `get_streamlines` exists. We defined here a simple function to do so. It imports the necessary modules and load a small streamline bundle. """ def get_streamlines(): from nibabel import trackvis as tv from dipy.data import get_fnames fname = get_fnames('fornix') streams, hdr = tv.read(fname) streamlines = [i[0] for i in streams] return streamlines """ .. _clustering-examples-AveragePointwiseEuclideanMetric: Average of Pointwise Euclidean Metric ===================================== **What:** Instances of `AveragePointwiseEuclideanMetric` first compute the pointwise Euclidean distance between two sequences *of same length* then return the average of those distances. This metric takes as inputs two features that are sequences containing the same number of elements. **When:** By default the `QuickBundles` clustering will resample your streamlines on-the-fly so they have 12 points. If for some reason you want to avoid this and you made sure all your streamlines have already the same number of points, you can manually provide an instance of `AveragePointwiseEuclideanMetric` to `QuickBundles`. Since the default `Feature` is the `IdentityFeature` the streamlines won't be resampled thus saving some computational time. **Note:** Inputs must be sequences of same length. """ from dipy.segment.clustering import QuickBundles from dipy.segment.metric import AveragePointwiseEuclideanMetric # Get some streamlines. streamlines = get_streamlines() # Previously defined. # Make sure our streamlines have the same number of points. from dipy.tracking.streamline import set_number_of_points streamlines = set_number_of_points(streamlines, nb_points=12) # Create the instance of `AveragePointwiseEuclideanMetric` to use. metric = AveragePointwiseEuclideanMetric() qb = QuickBundles(threshold=10., metric=metric) clusters = qb.cluster(streamlines) print("Nb. clusters:", len(clusters)) print("Cluster sizes:", map(len, clusters)) """ :: Nb. clusters: 4 Cluster sizes: [64, 191, 44, 1] .. _clustering-examples-SumPointwiseEuclideanMetric: Sum of Pointwise Euclidean Metric ================================= **What:** Instances of `SumPointwiseEuclideanMetric` first compute the pointwise Euclidean distance between two sequences *of same length* then return the sum of those distances. **When:** This metric mainly exists because it is used internally by `AveragePointwiseEuclideanMetric`. **Note:** Inputs must be sequences of same length. """ from dipy.segment.clustering import QuickBundles from dipy.segment.metric import SumPointwiseEuclideanMetric # Get some streamlines. streamlines = get_streamlines() # Previously defined. # Make sure our streamlines have the same number of points. from dipy.tracking.streamline import set_number_of_points nb_points = 12 streamlines = set_number_of_points(streamlines, nb_points=nb_points) # Create the instance of `SumPointwiseEuclideanMetric` to use. metric = SumPointwiseEuclideanMetric() qb = QuickBundles(threshold=10.*nb_points, metric=metric) clusters = qb.cluster(streamlines) print("Nb. clusters:", len(clusters)) print("Cluster sizes:", map(len, clusters)) """ :: Nb. clusters: 4 Cluster sizes: [64, 191, 44, 1] Cosine Metric ============= **What:** Instances of `CosineMetric` compute the cosine distance between two vectors (for more information see the `wiki page `_). **When:** This metric can be useful when you *only* need information about the orientation of a streamline. **Note:** Inputs must be vectors (i.e. 1D array). """ import numpy as np from dipy.viz import window, actor from dipy.segment.clustering import QuickBundles from dipy.segment.metric import VectorOfEndpointsFeature from dipy.segment.metric import CosineMetric # Enables/disables interactive visualization interactive = False # Get some streamlines. streamlines = get_streamlines() # Previously defined. feature = VectorOfEndpointsFeature() metric = CosineMetric(feature) qb = QuickBundles(threshold=0.1, metric=metric) clusters = qb.cluster(streamlines) # Color each streamline according to the cluster they belong to. colormap = actor.create_colormap(np.arange(len(clusters))) colormap_full = np.ones((len(streamlines), 3)) for cluster, color in zip(clusters, colormap): colormap_full[cluster.indices] = color # Visualization ren = window.Renderer() window.clear(ren) ren.SetBackground(0, 0, 0) ren.add(actor.streamtube(streamlines, colormap_full)) window.record(ren, out_path='cosine_metric.png', size=(600, 600)) if interactive: window.show(ren) """ .. figure:: cosine_metric.png :align: center Showing the streamlines colored according to their orientation. .. include:: ../links_names.inc References ---------- .. [Garyfallidis12] Garyfallidis E. et al., QuickBundles a method for tractography simplification, Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 6, no 175, 2012. """