Hi Jeff,<div><br></div><div>Before you start LDDMM, you have to make sure the linear registration (AIR) is very good. This is similar to non-liner fitting of a XY plot, which always requires you to do linear fitting first to get a good initial estimate of the non-linear fitting parameters.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There are cases when AIR fails often due to high intensity inside or outside the brains of patients. In this case, changing the contrast, as you did could be one solution. You can't change the contrast ad hoc for LDDMM but for linear transformation, it is just an initialization. So, all you want to do is to bring the two brains as close as possible. So, it's ok to use different approach for different data. What we often do is, 1) try mutual information, 2) use landmarks, or 3) do skull strip.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Most important things is, to make sure that the linear transformation is good. Be careful about the angle of the brain and the brainstem. The sagittal rotation is one of the most difficult parameters, while X, Y, Z translation and coronal / axial rotation is usually easy to register. If the sagittal angle is not satisfactory, you should try different approaches. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, we recently start to use 9-mode affine (no shearing) very often, which is now available in the latest DiffeoMap.</div><div><br></div><div>Susumu<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Jeff Sadino <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jsadino.queens@gmail.com">jsadino.queens@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hello again DTI Experts,<div><br></div><div>I have a group of patients that have suffered trauma to the head that I am putting through the LDDMM pipeline. A problem I ran across during AIR in DiffeoMap is that since the trauma is causing a hematoma in the B0 image, the registration is very poor. On one subject, I performed DiffeoMap AIR using the Mean DWI image and the registration came out pretty good. I am wondering if this is a valid approach to perform AIR registration.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For the LDDMM registration, usually I use the FA and the Trace image to drive the Kimap. However, I think I will get the same poor results. Should I use just the DWI image to drive the LDDMM registration? There would be no need to do "Intensity Normalization" on the DWI image, correct?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you very much,</div><div>Jeff Sadino</div>
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