Programme

MICCAI 2017 Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI

Keynote Lecture 1

8:00–9:00 Multidimensional Diffusion MRI
Daniel Topgaard
Lund University, Sweden

Oral Session 1

9:00–9:20 (k, q)-Compressed Sensing for dMRI with Joint Spatial-Angular Sparsity Prior
Evan Schwab et al.
Johns Hopkins University, USA
9:20–9:40 Spatio-Temporal dMRI Acquisition Design: Reducing the Number of qτ Samples Through a Relaxed Probabilistic Model
Patryk Filipiak et al.
Université Côte d’Azur – Inria Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée, France
9:40–10:00 A generalized SMT-based framework for Diffusion MRI microstructural model estimation
Mauro Zucchelli et al.
University of Verona, Italy

Coffee Break

10:00–10:30

Keynote Lecture 2

10:30–11:30 Translating Diffusion MRI Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers to Clinical Practice: Potential and Challenges
Wiro Niessen
Erasmus MC & Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Oral Session 2

11:30–12:30 MICCAI Challenge on Diffusion MRI Data Harmonisation

Lunch

12:30–13:30

Keynote Lecture 3

13:30–14:30 Diffusion MRI Acquisition Considerations Beyond Gradient Directions and b-Value
Christian Beaulieu
University of Alberta, Canada

Oral Session 3

14:30–14:50 Fiber-Flux Diffusion Density for White Matter Tracts Analysis: Application to Mild Anomalies Localization in Contact Sports Players
Itay Benou et al.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
14:50–15:10 Learning a single step of streamline tractography based on neural networks*
Daniel Jörgens et al.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
15:10–15:30 A Sheet Probability Index from Diffusion Tensor Imaging*
Michael Ankele & Thomas Schultz
University of Bonn, Germany

Coffee Break

15:30–16:00

Oral Session 4

16:00–16:20 Diffeomorphic Registration of Diffusion Mean Apparent Propagator Fields using Dynamic Programming on a Minimum Spanning Tree*
Kévin Ginsburger et al.
CEA DRF/ISVFJ/Neurospin/UNIRS, France
16:20–16:40 Brain Parcellation and Connectivity Mapping using Wasserstein Geometry*
Hamza Farooq et al.
University of Minnesota, USA

Poster Session

16:40–17:30 Recovering Missing Connections in Diffusion Weighted MRI Using Matrix Completion
Chendi Wang et al.
University of British Columbia, Canada
Multi-modal analysis of genetically-related subjects using SIFT descriptors in brain MRI
Kuldeep Kumar et al.
École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
Diffusion Specific Segmentation: Skull Stripping With Diffusion MRI Data Alone
Robert I. Reid et al.
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, USA
Diffusion Orientation Histograms (DOH) for Diffusion Weighted Image Analysis
Laurent Chauvin et al.
École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
Exploiting machine learning principles for assessing the fingerprinting potential of connectivity features
Silvia Obertino et al.
University of Verona, Italy
Probabilistic tractography for complex fiber orientations with automatic model selection
Edwin Versteeg et al.
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Social Event

The workshop will conclude with a social event at Les 3 Brasseurs in the evening. Google Map: 650 Grande Allée Est, Québec City, QC G1R 2K5, Canada.


* These papers will also be presented as posters.