[Neuroimaging] Tractography normalization

[Eleftherios Garyfallidis]

Hi Ariel,

Very good point.

We don't have such a transform method that can take both streamlines and
images.

Certainly Omar had a similar function in some previous version of his PR
where you could apply the transformations into points/streamlines.

I am sure he will be happy to put those back (if they are not already).
They can be useful for many things.

I am not sure it is necessary to have the same transform method operating
both with images and streamlines at the same time for now.

As a first step I would make a function and put it in
dipy.tracking.streamline where if you have a diffeomorphic map you can apply
that to the streamlines. It could be an extension of transform_streamlines
which works with an affine matrix.

After we test this one then we can try to include it to the transform
method of the Diffeomorphic Map.

But we need both versions. Because some times people register the images
first and then much later they want to apply the fields to the
streamlines.

Having such an easy API to do these things that were so messy before is SO
EXCITING! :D

So yeah it should be trivial with the current API. If Omar is busy with his
PhD thesis we can go ahead and do it ourselves.

Cheers,
Eleftherios


On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Ariel Rokem <arokem at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Eleftherios,
>
> Just considered this one today:
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Eleftherios Garyfallidis <
> garyfallidis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Jorge Rudas <jrudascas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for your answer Eleftherios
>>>
>>> One questions more...
>>>
>>> Be happy to ask as many questions as you need until everything is clear.
>> I am sure you will need
>> feedback from us to perform such an analysis. That is because although we
>> are currently working on making
>> easy workflows, right  now you will need write your own scripts combining
>> different DIPY tutorials of the
>> development version.
>>
>> Of course I am more than happy to help you with this.
>>
>>
>>> When you say "then apply the deformation fields to the tractographies",
>>> what exactly does this mean ?
>>>
>>> You will generate streamlines and FA maps in the native space of every
>> subject. Then you can for example register
>> the FAs to an FA template. After you have performed this registrations
>> you will also have saved the deformation fields
>> which were applied to the FAs so that they can be registered to the FA
>> template. Because the tractographies were
>> in the same space (native) as the FAs the same deformation fields can be
>> used to warp them to the FA template space
>> and in that way your tractographies will also be normalized.
>>
>
> Do we have an implementation of functions that take a non-linear transform
> and streamlines and warp the streamlines through this transform? Or should
> we implement something like this? As it is now, the
> DiffeomorphicMapping.transform method (and the functions that get called
> under the hood there) take a 3D or 2D image as input, but it should be
> fairly straightforward also enable these functions to take lists of
> streamlines and operate on these instead. Is this something that already
> works?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ariel
>
>
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