GSoC 2021 Project Idea 19.1: DIPY projects - Population-based MRI Template Creation

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#1

Implement a method to create a population-based MRI template. Given an input of several subjects’ MRI, create one standard template MRI for the population. The method will utilize the MRI registration framework available in DIPY.

Steps:

  • Understand MRI data
  • Implement template creation method
  • Write DIPY workflow of the method
  • Test it on different data sets

Difficulty: Intermediate

Skills required: Python, Image Registration, Image Processing.

Mentors: Bramsh Chandio, Shreyas Fadnavis, and Jong Sung Park

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#2

Hello Sir, I am Roshni ,M.Tech. Research Scholar in IIT Ropar, interested in this project.
I have done segmentation(Lesions Segmentation), classification projects in Medical CT Scan Data, X-Ray Data, etc, libraries used are- Keras, Tensorflow and language used - Python.
Kindly guide me further.

#3

@ROSHNI_JHARIYA ,

Thanks for reaching out. Did you get a chance to put together some prototypes or approximate details about how you would approach the problem statement? It is okay if your approach is incorrect but if share some ideas around how you would approach the project idea then the mentors can guide you better. Also do share any questions/queries you might have about this project in general.

Cheers!
Arnab

#4

Hello Arnab

Can you please provide me like to understanding of the problem statement better.

Thank You

Roshni Jhariya

#5

@ROSHNI_JHARIYA @Neeraj_adityananth_P

I am tagging the mentors of this project to help you out(@bramsh @ShreyasFadnavis @pjsjongsung ). But for them to help you out, please can I request you to read through the project idea thoroughly and ask pointed queries/questions? That will help the mentors answer your queries better. As I’ve mentioned in above comment too, the project idea already has few steps mentioned. Ask yourself how you would go about solving this problem and come up with a brief proposal. It is okay if your approach is incorrect, the mentors will help you correct your approach but you will have to take the initiative and come up with initial steps of solving the problem.

Any concerns or queries? Happy to help.

Cheers!
Arnab

#6

hi @arnab1896. Veer shah here, I had a query regarding this project, can we use deep learning to generate more accurate templates.
Hoping to hear back from you

Regards
Veer Shah

#7

Hi @arnab1896 I’m a first year grad student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor specializing in computer vision. This project is interesting and I’d like to contribute to it. I haven’t worked with MRI data yet but I’m a quick study and am able to pick up things quickly. Hope to contribute.

Based on the limited reading I have done, the steps involved are

  1. Alignment of the various scans,
  2. Some sort of averaging over the different MRIs over the voxels to develop a reference template
  3. Use ANT and other techniques to finetune the template.

Over the course of the next few days I will be diving more into the details of the steps but hope this rough idea is correct.

A few questions I had:

  1. There are different methods of obtaining MRIs which result in different images. For this project do we assume that all the samples come from the same machine or do we develop a method that can deal with MRI scans from different machines with different settings?
  2. Similar to @Veershah26 question, is there scope for deep learning in this project? Just from experience, working with encodings of the various MRIs might lead to a more robust template.

Looking forward to your response.

Thanks,
Dinesh Sathia Raj.

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#8

Hi Mentors (@bramsh @ShreyasFadnavis),

Hope you are well,

I am very interested in being a part of this project. I am a third year undergraduate in Computer Science at the University of St Andrews. I don’t have a lot of experience with the suggested technologies; however, I am eager to learn and delve into this kind of work.

I am proficient with Python and have some experience using artificial intelligence for image classification. I have been thrown into the deep end countless times at University so I am confident that I will be able to quickly learn and understand anything new that is relevant to the project.

I have done some preliminary research and have produced some notes as well as a broad approach to the project. This can be found here: https://bit.ly/3vYF6p2

Please let me know your thoughts on my current approach if you get a spare moment.

I look forward to working with you all

Kind regards,
Gregor

#9

Hi Dinesh,

We will be working on one modality either T1 MRIs or FA images generated from Diffusion MRI.
No fMRI or Diffusion MRI. @Gregor_Soutar

Data can come from different machines.

We don’t necessarily need deep learning here but if you have any suggestion you can add that into your proposal and explain why and how it would benefit the template creation. @Veershah26

Overall, you on the right track!

Best,
Bramsh

#10

Take a look at the guidelines on how to contribute to DIPY . Making a small enhancement/bugfix/documentation fix/etc to DIPY already before applying for the GSoC can help you get some idea how things would work during the GSoC. The fix does not need to be related to your proposal. We have and will continue adding some beginner-friendly issues in Github. You can see some of them here .

#11

Hi Gregor,

We won’t be working on fMRI.

To get familiar with image registration you can look at the following tutorials in DIPY:

Affine Registration in 3D

Symmetric Diffeomorphic Registration in 3D

Here are some papers that can help you get an idea about how MRI templates are created:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hbm.20906

@Gregor_Soutar @DSSR @ROSHNI_JHARIYA @Veershah26

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