@inproceedings{5eafbf1684644a0ca5d24ef4703ad568,
title = "Improved global cardiac tractography with simulated annealing",
abstract = "We propose a new fibre tracking algorithm for cardiac DT-MRI that parts with the locally {"}greedy{"} paradigm intrinsic to conventional tracking algorithms. We formulate the fibre tracking problem as the global problem of computing paths in a boolean-weighted undirected graph. Each voxel is a vertex and egdes connect every pair of neighboring voxels. We solve the underlying optimization task by Metropolis type annealing. The key features of our approach are: global optimality (unlike conventional tracking algorithms) and optimal balance between the density of fibres and the amount of available data. Besides, seed points are no longer needed; fibres are predicted in one shot for the whole DT-MRI volume without initialization artifacts.",
keywords = "Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI), Fibre tracking, Graph modeling, Human heart, Tractography",
author = "Carole Frindel and Marc Robini and Jo{\"e}l Schaerer and Pierre Croisille and Zhu, {Yue Min}",
year = "2009",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/ICIP.2009.5414407",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781424456543",
series = "Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "813--816",
booktitle = "2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2009 - Proceedings",
note = "2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2009 ; Conference date: 07-11-2009 Through 10-11-2009",
}