BUndle ANalytics (BUAN) framework

Group Comparison of Bundle Profiles

For generating bundle profile data (saved as .h5 files): You must have downloaded bundles folder of 30 atlas bundles and subjects folder with PPMI data derivatives.

Following workflows require specific input directory structure but don’t worry as data you downloaded is already in the required format. We will be using bundles folder you downloaded from streamline atlas link and subjects_small folder downloaded from test data link.

Where, bundles folder has following model bundles:

bundles/
├── AF_L.trk
├── AF_R.trk
├── CCMid.trk
├── CC_ForcepsMajor.trk
├── CC_ForcepsMinor.trk
├── CST_L.trk
├── CST_R.trk
├── EMC_L.trk
├── EMC_R.trk
├── FPT_L.trk
├── FPT_R.trk
├── IFOF_L.trk
├── IFOF_R.trk
├── ILF_L.trk
├── ILF_R.trk
├── MLF_L.trk
├── MLF_R.trk
├── ML_L.trk
├── ML_R.trk
├── MdLF_L.trk
├── MdLF_R.trk
├── OPT_L.trk
├── OPT_R.trk
├── OR_L.trk
├── OR_R.trk
├── STT_L.trk
├── STT_R.trk
├── UF_L.trk
├── UF_R.trk
└── V.trk

The subjects_small directory has following structure:

subjects_small
├── control
│   ├── 3805
│   │   ├── anatomical_measures
│   │   ├── org_bundles
│   │   └── rec_bundles
│   ├── 3806
│   │   ├── anatomical_measures
│   │   ├── org_bundles
│   │   └── rec_bundles
│   ├── 3809
│   │   ├── anatomical_measures
│   │   ├── org_bundles
│   │   └── rec_bundles
│   ├── 3850
│   │   ├── anatomical_measures
│   │   ├── org_bundles
│   │   └── rec_bundles
│   └── 3851
│       ├── anatomical_measures
│       ├── org_bundles
│       └── rec_bundles
└── patient
    ├── 3383
    │   ├── anatomical_measures
    │   ├── org_bundles
    │   └── rec_bundles
    ├── 3385
    │   ├── anatomical_measures
    │   ├── org_bundles
    │   └── rec_bundles
    ├── 3387
    │   ├── anatomical_measures
    │   ├── org_bundles
    │   └── rec_bundles
    ├── 3392
    │   ├── anatomical_measures
    │   ├── org_bundles
    │   └── rec_bundles
    └── 3552
        ├── anatomical_measures
        ├── org_bundles
        └── rec_bundles

And each subject folder has the following structure:

├── anatomical_measures
│   ├── ad.nii.gz
│   ├── csa_peaks.pam5
│   ├── fa.nii.gz
│   ├── md.nii.gz
│   └── rd.nii.gz
├── org_bundles
│   ├── streamlines_moved_AF_L__labels__recognized_orig.trk
│   ├── streamlines_moved_AF_R__labels__recognized_orig.trk
│   ├── streamlines_moved_CCMid__labels__recognized_orig.trk
│   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
│   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
│   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
│   ├── streamlines_moved_UF_L__labels__recognized_orig.trk
│   ├── streamlines_moved_UF_R__labels__recognized_orig.trk
│   └── streamlines_moved_V__labels__recognized_orig.trk
└── rec_bundles
    ├── moved_AF_L__recognized.trk
    ├── moved_AF_R__recognized.trk
    ├── moved_CCMid__recognized.trk
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    ├── moved_UF_L__recognized.trk
    ├── moved_UF_R__recognized.trk
    └── moved_V__recognized.trk

If you want to run this tutorial on your data, make sure that the directory structure is The same as shown above. Where, anatomical_measures folder has nifti files for DTI measures such as FA, MD, and CSA/CSD pam5 files. The org_bundles folder has extracted bundles in native space. The rec_bundles folder has extracted bundles in common space.

Create an out_dir folder (eg: bundle_profiles):

mkdir bundle_profiles

Run the following workflow:

dipy_buan_profiles bundles/ subjects_small/ --out_dir "bundle_profiles"

For running Linear Mixed Models (LMM) on generated .h5 files from the previous step:

Create an out_dir folder (eg: lmm_plots):

mkdir lmm_plots

And run the following workflow:

dipy_buan_lmm "bundle_profiles/*" --out_dir "lmm_plots"

This workflow will generate 30 bundles group comparison plots per anatomical measures. Plots will look like the following example:

We can also visualize and highlight the specific location of group differences on the bundle by providing output p-values file from dipy_buan_lmm workflow. The user can specify at what level of significance they want to see group differences by providing threshold value of p-value to buan_thr (default 0.05). The color of the highlighted area can be specified by providing RGB color values to buan_highlight (Default Red)

Run the following commandline for visualizing group differences on the model bundle:

dipy_horizon bundles/AF_L.trk lmm_plots/AF_L_fa_pvalues.npy --buan --buan_thr 0.05

Where, AF_L.trk `` is located in your model bundle folder ``bundles and AF_L_fa_pvalues.npy is saved in output folder lmm_plots of dipy_buan_lmm workflow

The output of this commandline is an interactive visualization window. Example snapshot:

Let’s use a different highlight color this time on CST_L bundle:

dipy_horizon bundles/CST_L.trk lmm_plots/CST_L_fa_pvalues.npy --buan --buan_thr 0.05 --buan_highlight 1 1 0

Shape similarity of specific bundles across the populations

Create an out_dir folder (eg: sm_plots):

mkdir sm_plots

Run the following workflow:

dipy_buan_shapes subjects_small/ --out_dir "sm_plots"

This workflow will generate 30 bundles shape similarity plots. Shape similarity score ranges between 0-1, where 1 being highest similarity and 0 being lowest. Plots will look like the following example:

Reproducing results on larger dataset:

Complete dataset of DIPY Processed Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) Data Derivatives can be downloaded from the link below:

https://doi.org/10.35092/yhjc.12033390

Please note this is a large data file and might take some time to run. If you only want to test the workflows use the test sample data.

All steps will be the same as mentioned above except this time the data downloaded will have different folder name subjects instead of subjects_small.

For more information about each command line, you can go to https://github.com/dipy/dipy/blob/master/dipy/workflows/stats.py

If you are using any of these commands do cite the relevant papers.