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@ARTICLE{Rauland:1047194,
author = {Rauland, Amelie and Meisler, Steven L. and Alexander-Bloch,
Aaron F. and Bagautdinova, Joëlle and Baller, Erica B. and
Gur, Raquel E. and Gur, Ruben C. and Luo, Audrey C. and
Moore, Tyler M. and Popovych, Oleksandr V. and Reetz,
Kathrin and Roalf, David R. and Shinohara, Russell T. and
Sotardi, Susan and Sydnor, Valerie J. and Vossough, Arastoo
and Eickhoff, Simon B. and Cieslak, Matthew and
Satterthwaite, Theodore D.},
title = {{B}enchmarking {O}rientation {D}istribution {F}unction
{E}stimation {M}ethods for {T}ractometry in {S}ingle-{S}hell
{D}iffusion {M}agnetic {R}esonance {I}maging - {A}n
{E}valuation of {T}est-{R}etest {R}eliability and
{P}redictive {C}apability},
journal = {bioRxiv beta},
address = {Cold Spring Harbor},
publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY},
reportid = {FZJ-2025-04143},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Deriving white matter (WM) bundles in-vivo has thus far
mainly been applied in research settings, leveraging high
angular resolution, multi-shell diffusion MRI (dMRI)
acquisitions that enable advanced reconstruction methods.
However, these advanced acquisitions are both time-consuming
and costly to acquire. The ability to reconstruct WM bundles
in the massive amounts of existing single-shelled, lower
angular resolution data from legacy research studies and
healthcare systems would offer much broader clinical
applications and population-level generalizability. While
legacy scans may offer a valuable, large-scale complement to
contemporary research datasets, the reliability of white
matter bundles derived from these scans remains unclear.
Here, we leverage a large research dataset where each
64-direction dMRI scan was acquired as two independent
32-direction runs per subject. To investigate how recently
developed bundle segmentation methods generalize to this
data, we evaluated the test-retest reliability of the two
32-direction scans, of WM bundle extraction across three
orientation distribution function (ODF) reconstruction
methods: generalized q-sampling imaging (GQI), constrained
spherical deconvolution (CSD), and single-shell three-tissue
CSD (SS3T). We found that the majority of WM bundles could
be reliably extracted from dMRI scans that were acquired
using the 32-direction, single-shell acquisition scheme. The
mean dice coefficient of reconstructed WM bundles was
consistently higher within-subject than between-subject for
all WM bundles and ODF reconstruction methods, illustrating
preservation of person-specific anatomy. Further, when using
features of the bundles to predict complex reasoning
assessed using a computerized cognitive battery, we observed
stable prediction accuracies ( r : 0.15-0.36) across the
test-retest data. Among the three ODF reconstruction
methods, SS3T had a good balance between sensitivity and
specificity in external validation, a high intra-class
correlation of extracted features, more plausible bundles,
and strong predictive performance. More broadly, these
results demonstrate that bundle segmentation can achieve
robust performance even on lower angular resolution,
single-shell dMRI, with particular advantages for ODF
methods optimized for single-shell data. This highlights the
considerable potential for dMRI collected in healthcare
settings and legacy research datasets to accelerate and
expand the scope of WM research.},
cin = {INM-7},
ddc = {570},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-7-20090406},
pnm = {5253 - Neuroimaging (POF4-525)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5253},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)25},
doi = {10.1101/2025.09.02.673635},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1047194},
}