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ArticleNeuroinformatics2020

QFib: Fast and Efficient Brain Tractogram Compression.

C Mercier, S Rousseau, P Gori, I Bloch, T Boubekeur

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Article in Neuroinformatics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. TRAKO: Efficient Transmission of Tractography Data for Visualization.Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

C MercierLTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France. corentin.mercier@telecom-paris.fr.
S RousseauLTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France. sylvain.rousseau@telecom-paris.fr.ORCID 0000-0002-4013-6151
P GoriLTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France.
I BlochLTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France.
T BoubekeurLTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France.
Télécom Paris · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diffusion MRI fiber tracking datasets can contain millions of 3D streamlines, and their representation can weight tens of gigabytes of memory. These sets of streamlines are called tractograms and are often used for clinical operations or research. Their size makes them difficult to store, visualize, process or exchange over the network. We propose a new compression algorithm well-suited for tractograms, by taking advantage of the way streamlines are obtained with usual tracking algorithms. Our approach is based on unit vector quantization methods combined with a spatial transformation which results in low compression and decompression times, as well as a high compression ratio. For instance, a 11.5GB tractogram can be compressed to a 1.02GB file and decompressed in 11.3 seconds. Moreover, our method allows for the compression and decompression of individual streamlines, reducing the need for a costly out-of-core algorithm with heavy datasets. Last, we open a way toward on-the-fly compression and decompression for handling larger datasets without needing a load of RAM (i.e. in-core handling), faster network exchanges and faster loading times for visualization or processing.

Indexed as

AlgorithmsBrainDiffusion Tensor ImagingHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedCompressionDiffusion MRIOn-the-fly algorithmsTractographyUnit vectors

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PMID32474750
OpenAlexW3025465073

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