Ensemble Tractography

This page describes how to use Ensemble Tractography (ET) for identifying white matter fascicles from diffusion MRI data. ET is an idea proposed by Takemura, Caiafa, Wandell & Pestilli (2016) PLoS Comput Biol.

This page is still under construction. Final goal of this wiki is to describe the detailed instructions with sample dataset and scripts for performing ET analysis.

System Requirements

ET is an extension of the LiFE Pestilli et al, 2014 Nat Methods. Recent LiFE release includes specific functions for performing ET analyses.

Required packages

• MATLAB (2012b or later)
• Vistasoft
• LiFE

Optional packages

• MrTrix

Sample dataset and script

Hiromasa Takemura is planning to organize the sample dataset to run example Ensemble Tractography analysis. To be announced.

Reference for Ensemble Tracotgraphy

Takemura H, Caiafa CF, Wandell BA, Pestilli F (2016) Ensemble Tractography. PLoS Comput Biol 12(2): e1004692. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004692