Riemannian geometry for the statistical analysis of diffusion tensor data

Authors:
P. Thomas Fletcher;Sarang Joshi
Affiliations:
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, 50 S Central Campus Drive Room 3490, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA;Medical Imaging and Display Analysis Group, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 101 Manning Drive, Campus Box 7512, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Venue:
Signal Processing
Year:
2007

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Abstract

The tensors produced by diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) represent the covariance in a Brownian motion model of water diffusion. Under this physical interpretation, diffusion tensors are required to be symmetric, positive-definite. However, current approaches to statistical analysis of diffusion tensor data, which treat the tensors as linear entities, do not take this positive-definite constraint into account. This difficulty is due to the fact that the space of diffusion tensors does not form a vector space. In this paper we show that the space of diffusion tensors is a type of curved manifold known as a Riemannian symmetric space. We then develop methods for producing statistics, namely averages and modes of variation, in this space. We show that these statistics preserve natural geometric properties of the tensors, including the constraint that their eigenvalues be positive. The symmetric space formulation also leads to a natural definition for interpolation of diffusion tensors and a new measure of anisotropy. We expect that these methods will be useful in the registration of diffusion tensor images, the production of statistical atlases from diffusion tensor data, and the quantification of the anatomical variability caused by disease. The framework presented in this paper should also be useful in other applications where symmetric, positive-definite tensors arise, such as mechanics and computer vision.