Awards

Tractography challenges

Pipelines using Trekker have earned awards in every international tractography competition organized since 2017, each featuring different themes.

Young scientist award

Prior to Parallel Transport Tractography (PTT) [Aydogan2019], [Aydogan2021], Trekker was implementing an earlier version of the algorithm that was based on the Frenet-Serret frame [Aydogan2016]. This work was ranked among the top five papers at MICCAI 2016, leading to a Young Scientist Award.

References

[Aydogan2016]

Aydogan DB, Shi Y. “Probabilistic tractography for topographically organized connectomes.” In Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention–MICCAI 2016: 19th International Conference, Athens, Greece, October 17-21, 2016, Proceedings, Part I 19 2016 (pp. 201-209). Springer International Publishing.

[Aydogan2019]

Aydogan D.B., Shi Y., “A novel fiber tracking algorithm using parallel transport frames”, Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2019

[Aydogan2021]

Aydogan D.B., Shi Y., “Parallel transport tractography”, in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 635-647, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TMI.2020.3034038.

[Girard2023]

Girard, Gabriel, et al. “Tractography passes the test: Results from the diffusion-simulated connectivity (disco) challenge.” NeuroImage 277 (2023): 120231.

[Maffei2022]

Maffei, Chiara, et al. “Insights from the IronTract challenge: Optimal methods for mapping brain pathways from multi-shell diffusion MRI.” NeuroImage 257 (2022): 119327.

[Schilling2019]

Schilling, Kurt G., et al. “Limits to anatomical accuracy of diffusion tractography using modern approaches.” Neuroimage 185 (2019): 1-11.

[Vishwesh2020]

Nath, Vishwesh, et al. “Tractography reproducibility challenge with empirical data (TraCED): the 2017 ISMRM diffusion study group challenge.” Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 51.1 (2020): 234-249.