Publications by Maxime Descoteaux

A multi-scale probabilistic atlas of the human connectome

Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Patric Hagmann, Elena Najdenovska, Alessandra Griffa, Maxime Descoteaux

The human brain is a complex system that can be efficiently represented as a network of structural connectivity. Many imaging studies would benefit from such network information, which is not always available. In this work, we present a whole-brain multi-s ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Bundle-Specific Axon Diameter Index as a New Contrast to Differentiate White Matter Tracts

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giorgio Innocenti, David Paul Roger Romascano, Cristina Granziera, Alessandro Daducci, Muhamed Barakovic, Gabriel Girard, Maxime Descoteaux

In the central nervous system of primates, several pathways are characterized by different spectra of axon diameters. In vivo methods, based on diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, can provide axon diameter index estimates non-invasively. However ...

2021

Hierarchical Microstructure Informed Tractography

Alessandro Daducci, Gabriel Girard, Maxime Descoteaux

Background: Tractography uses diffusion magnetic resonance imaging to noninvasively infer the macroscopic pathways of white matter fibers and it is the only available technique to probe in vivo the structural connectivity of the brain. However, despite thi ...

MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC2021

Open-access quantitative MRI data of the spinal cord and reproducibility across participants, sites and manufacturers

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Christian Büchel, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Maryam Seif, Maxime Descoteaux

In a companion paper by Cohen-Adad et al. we introduce the spine generic quantitative MRI protocol that provides valuable metrics for assessing spinal cord macrostructural and microstructural integrity. This protocol was used to acquire a single subject da ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

Cortical Surfaces Integration with Tractography for Structural Connectivity Analysis

Gabriel Girard, Maxime Descoteaux

Background: Mapping diffusion MRI tractography streamlines to the cortical surface facilitates the integration of white matter features onto gray matter, especially for connectivity analysis. ...

MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC2021

Adaptive phase correction of diffusion-weighted images

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Maxime Descoteaux, Marco Pizzolato

Phase correction (PC) is a preprocessing technique that exploits the phase of images acquired in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to obtain real-valued images containing tissue contrast with additive Gaussian noise, as opposed to magnitude images which fol ...

2020

On the cortical connectivity in the macaque brain: A comparison of diffusion tractography and histological tracing data

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giorgio Innocenti, Gabriel Girard, Maxime Descoteaux, Tim Bjørn Dyrby

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) tractography is a non-invasive tool to probe neural connections and the structure of the white matter. It has been applied successfully in studies of neurological disorders and normal connectivity. Rec ...

2020

Tractostorm: The what, why, and how of tractography dissection reproducibility

David Paul Roger Romascano, Alessandro Daducci, Muhamed Barakovic, Gabriel Girard, Maxime Descoteaux

Investigative studies of white matter (WM) brain structures using diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography frequently require manual WM bundle segmentation, often called "virtual dissection." Human errors and personal decisions make these manual segmentations har ...

Wiley2020

A new method for accurate in vivo mapping of human brain connections using microstructural and anatomical information

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandro Daducci, Muhamed Barakovic, Maxime Descoteaux

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging is a noninvasive imaging modality that has been extensively used in the literature to study the neuronal architecture of the brain in a wide range of neurological conditions using tractography. However, recent studies h ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2020

Diversity of Cortico-descending Projections: Histological and Diffusion MRI Characterization in the Monkey

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Graham Knott, Giorgio Innocenti, Maxime Descoteaux, Tim Bjørn Dyrby

The axonal composition of cortical projections originating in premotor, supplementary motor (SMA), primary motor (a4), somatosensory and parietal areas and descending towards the brain stem and spinal cord was characterized in the monkey with histological ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2019

Topological principles and developmental algorithms might refine diffusion tractography

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giorgio Innocenti, Alessandro Daducci, Gabriel Girard, Maxime Descoteaux, Tim Bjørn Dyrby

The identification and reconstruction of axonal pathways in the living brain or “ex-vivo” is promising a revolution in connectivity studies bridging the gap from animal to human neuroanatomy with extensions to brain structural–functional correlates. Unfort ...

2019

On the intrahemispheric connectivity of the monkey: a diffusion tractography and tract tracing analysis

Giorgio Innocenti, Gabriel Girard, Maxime Descoteaux

In this work, we compare diffusion tractography with neuronal retrograde tract tracing of the frontal, cingulate and parietal areas of the monkey. In this work, we compare diffusion tractography with neuronal retrograde tract tracing of the frontal, cingul ...

International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine2019

Assessing feasibility and reproducibility of a bundle-specific framework on in vivo axon diameter estimates at 300mT/m

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giorgio Innocenti, David Paul Roger Romascano, Alessandro Daducci, Muhamed Barakovic, Gabriel Girard, Maxime Descoteaux, Jonathan Rafael Patino Lopez

In vivo quantitative estimation of axon diameter in the white matter could bring new tools to study the structural and functional architecture of the brain. Recently, the feasibility of axon diameter estimation with diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) has been ...

2018

In-vivo probabilistic atlas of human thalamic nuclei based on diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Patric Hagmann, Elena Najdenovska, Maxime Descoteaux

The thalamic nuclei are involved in many neurodegenerative diseases and therefore, their identification is of key importance in numerous clinical treatments. Automated segmentation of thalamic subparts is currently achieved by exploring diffusion-weighted ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2018

Reducing false positives in tractography with microstructural and anatomical priors

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandro Daducci, Muhamed Barakovic, Gabriel Girard, Maxime Descoteaux

Tractography has proven particularly effective for studying noninvasively the neuronal architecture of the brain but recent studies have showed that the high incidence of false positives can significantly bias any connectivity analysis. We present a novel ...

2018

In-vivo Bundle-Specific Axon Diameter Distributions Estimation across the Corpus Callosum

Jean-Philippe Thiran, David Paul Roger Romascano, Alessandro Daducci, Muhamed Barakovic, Gabriel Girard, Maxime Descoteaux

Over the last decade microstructure imaging has become commonly endorsed to estimate quantitative features of neuronal tissue. However, those techniques estimate the microstructure only locally. Microstructure informed tractography was recently proposed to ...

2017

When does a volume of a bundle achieve saturation? A microstructure informed tractography study

Jean-Philippe Thiran, David Paul Roger Romascano, Alessandro Daducci, Muhamed Barakovic, Gabriel Girard, Maxime Descoteaux

Volumetric analysis of bundles derived from tractography is a popular statistical measure used in neurological disorder studies. Recent research performed by Gauvin shows that different bundles saturate with different tractography parameters, however, to a ...

2017

Microstructure informed tractography: pitfalls and open challenges

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandro Daducci, Maxime Descoteaux

One of the major limitations of diffusion MRI tractography is that the fiber tracts recovered by existing algorithms are not truly quantitative. Local techniques for estimating more quantitative features of the tissue microstructure exist, but their combin ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2016

Quantitative comparison of reconstruction methods for intra-voxel fiber recovery from diffusion MRI

Gloria Menegaz, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Mathews Jacob, Yves Wiaux, Alessandro Daducci, Ying-Chia Lin, Maxime Descoteaux, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Alonso Ramirez Manzanares

Validation is arguably the bottleneck in the diffusion MRI community. This paper evaluates and compares 20 algorithms for recovering the local intra-voxel fiber structure from diffusion MRI data and is based on the results of the "HARDI reconstruction chal ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Phantomas: a flexible software library to simulate diffusion MR phantoms

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandro Daducci, Maxime Descoteaux

We introduce Phantomαs, an open-source software library to create realistic phantoms in structural and diffusion MRI. This is intended as a tool for researchers working in method development or translational research in the field of diffusion-weighted MRI. ...

2014