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SupWMA: Consistent and Efficient Tractography Parcellation of Superficial White Matter with Deep Learning

29 Jan 2022arXiv:2201.12528archive 2025-07-28

Tengfei Xue, Fan Zhang, Chaoyi Zhang, Yuqian Chen, Yang song, Nikos Makris, Yogesh Rathi, Weidong Cai, Lauren J. O'Donnell

White matter parcellation classifies tractography streamlines into clusters or anatomically meaningful tracts to enable quantification and visualization. Most parcellation methods focus on the deep white matter (DWM), while fewer methods address the superficial white matter (SWM) due to its complexity. We propose a deep-learning-based framework, Superficial White Matter Analysis (SupWMA), that performs an efficient and consistent parcellation of 198 SWM clusters from whole-brain tractography. A point-cloud-based network is modified for our SWM parcellation task, and supervised contrastive learning enables more discriminative representations between plausible streamlines and outliers. We perform evaluation on a large tractography dataset with ground truth labels and on three independently acquired testing datasets from individuals across ages and health conditions. Compared to several state-of-the-art methods, SupWMA obtains a highly consistent and accurate SWM parcellation result. In addition, the computational speed of SupWMA is much faster than other methods.

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