Nonnegative factorization of diffusion tensor images and its applications

  • Authors:
  • Yuchen Xie;Jeffrey Ho;Baba C. Vemuri

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of CISE, University of Florida, Gainesville FL;Department of CISE, University of Florida, Gainesville FL;Department of CISE, University of Florida, Gainesville FL

  • Venue:
  • IPMI'11 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Information processing in medical imaging
  • Year:
  • 2011

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel method for computing linear basis images from tensor-valued image data. As a generalization of the nonnegative matrix factorization, the proposed method aims to approximate a collection of diffusion tensor images using nonnegative linear combinations of basis tensor images. An efficient iterative optimization algorithm is proposed to solve this factorization problem.We present two applications: the DTI segmentation problem and a novel approach to discover informative and common parts in a collection of diffusion tensor images. The proposed method has been validated using both synthetic and real data, and experimental results have shown that it offers a competitive alternative to current state-of-the-arts in terms of accuracy and efficiency.