Estimating Neural Orientation Distribution Fields on High Resolution Diffusion MRI Scans

Mohammed Munzer Dwedari, William Consagra, Philip Müller, Özgün Turgut, Daniel Rueckert, Yogesh Rathi

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Abstract

The Orientation Distribution Function (ODF) characterizes key brain microstructural properties and plays an important role in understanding brain structural connectivity. Recent works introduced Implicit Neural Representation (INR) based approaches to form a spatially aware continuous estimate of the ODF field and demonstrated promising results in key tasks of interest when compared to conventional discrete approaches. However, traditional INR methods face difficulties when scaling to large-scale images, such as modern ultra-high-resolution MRI scans, posing challenges in learning fine structures as well as inefficiencies in training and inference speed. In this work, we propose HashEnc, a grid-hash-encoding-based estimation of the ODF field and demonstrate its effectiveness in retaining structural and textural features. We show that HashEnc achieves a 10 % enhancement in image quality while requiring 3× less computational resources than current methods. Our code can be found at https://github.com/MunzerDw/NODF-HashEnc.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2024 - 27th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsMarius George Linguraru, Qi Dou, Aasa Feragen, Stamatia Giannarou, Ben Glocker, Karim Lekadir, Julia A. Schnabel
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages307-317
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783031721038
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2024 - Marrakesh, Morocco
Duration: 6 Oct 202410 Oct 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume15007 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2024
Country/TerritoryMorocco
CityMarrakesh
Period6/10/2410/10/24

Keywords

  • Diffusion MRI
  • Implicit Neural Representation
  • Orientation Distribution Function

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