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Image:PW2009-v3.png|[[2009_Summer_Project_Week#Projects|Back to Projects List]]
Image:Anna.png|Tracts through the corpus connecting two cortical regions defined by fMRI activation.
Image:Image5.jpeg|Display of Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) and Orbito-Frontal Cortex (OFC).
Image:Image11.jpeg|Population study on ACC to OFC connection using stochastic tractography showed significant FA reduction in schizophrenics.
Image:01040-lh-all-3D-cropped.png|stochastic tractography of IFG-STG (arcuate) and IFG-occipital (IOFF) connections.
Image:FA IFG-Occ scatter.jpg|Significant finding in left IFG-occipital connections suggests decreased integrity of fiber tracts involved in language processing in schizophrenia.
Image:ScreenshotFreeSurferDeepMatterSagitalView-vcase1-2009-06-12.jpg|VCFS segmentation results to be used as seed regions for stochastic tracking.
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==Key Investigators==
* BWH: Julien de Siebenthal, Sylvain Bouix, Marek Kubicki

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<h3>Objective</h3>
To create an end-to-end analysis pipeline to study white matter anomalies using a stochastic tractography algorithm in VCFS population.

See our [[DBP2:Harvard:Brain_Segmentation_Roadmap| Roadmap]] for more details.

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<h3>Approach, Plan</h3>
Our approach involves the implementation of a stochastic tractography algorithm in python that can be used both within and outside of the slicer framework.

Our plan for the project week is to integrate diffusion weighted imaging preprocessing steps to the pipeline in particular:
* Rician Noise Removal
* EPI distortion correction
* Eddy current correction

We will also be testing pipeline on VCFS population, now that we have enough subjects to start a study and some encouraging gray matter segmentation results.

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<h3>Progress</h3>


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==References==
* [http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/papers/pdfs/2006/frimanTMI06.pdf Friman, O., Farneback, G., Westin CF. A Bayesian Approach for Stochastic White Matter Tractography. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol 25, No. 8, Aug. 2006]
* [http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Image:IC_posternew.png Shenton, M.E., Ngo, T., Rosenberger, G., Westin, C.F., Levitt, J.J., McCarley, R.W., Kubicki, M. Study of Thalamo-Cortical White Matter Fiber Tract Projections in Schizophrenia Using Diffusion Stochastic Tractography. Poster presented at the 46th Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Boca Raton, FL, December 2007.]
* [http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Media:dougt_poster.pdf  Terry DP, Rausch AC, Alvarado JL, Melonakos ED, Markant D, Westin CF, Kikinis R, von Siebenthal J, Shenton ME, Kubicki M. White Matter Properties of Emotion Related Connections in Schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 2009 Mysell Poster Day, Dept. of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, April 2009]
* [http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Media:Jorge_poster.pdf Alvarado JL, Terry DP, Markant D, Ngo T, Kikinis R, Westin CF, McCarley RW, Shenton ME, Kubicki M. Study of Language-Related White Matter Tract Connections in Schizophrenia using Diffusion Stochastic Tractography. Poster presented at the 2009 Mysell Poster Day, Dept. of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, April 2009]
* Melonakos ED, Shenton ME, Markant D, Alvarado J, Westin CF, Kubicki M. White Matter Properties of Orbitofrontal Connections in Schizophrenia. Poster being presented at the 64th Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. Vancouver, BC. May 2009. 
* Kubicki, M. Khan, U., Bobrow, L., O'Donnell, L. Pieper, S. Westin, CF., Shenton, ME. New Methods for Assessing Whole Brain DTI Abnormalities in Schizophrenia. Presentation given at the International Congress of World Psychiatric Association. Florence, Italy. April 2009.
* Kubicki, M., Markant, D., Ngo, T., Westin, CF., McCarley, RW., Shenton, ME. Study of Language Related White Matter Fiber Tract Projections in Schizophrenia Using Diffusion Stochastic Tractography. Presentation given at the International Congress of World Psychiatric Association. Florence, Italy. April 2009.

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