References
If you use TractoR in your work, please cite the following paper, which describes the package in general:
J.D. Clayden, S. Muñoz Maniega, A.J. Storkey, M.D. King, M.E. Bastin & C.A. Clark (2011). TractoR: Magnetic resonance imaging and tractography with R. Journal of Statistical Software 44(8):1–18.
Additionally, the table below outlines the relevant papers which should be cited when using various parts of the functionality provided by TractoR.
| Script name(s) | Reference(s) |
|---|---|
dpreproc (stage 2, with UseTopup:true only) |
Andersson J.L.R., Skare S. & Ashburner J. (2003). How to correct susceptibility distortions in spin-echo echo-planar images: Application to diffusion tensor imaging. NeuroImage 20(2):870–888. |
dpreproc (stage 3, with MaskingMethod:bet only) |
Smith S. (2002). Fast robust automated brain extraction. Human Brain Mapping 17(3):143–155. |
dpreproc (stage 4, with EddyCorrectionMethod:eddy only) |
Andersson J.L.R. & Sotiropoulos S.N. (2016). An integrated approach to correction for off-resonance effects and subject movement in diffusion MR imaging. NeuroImage 125:1063–1078. |
bedpost |
Behrens T.E., Johansen-Berg H., Jbabdi S., Rushworth M. & Woolrich M. (2007). Probabilistic diffusion tractography with multiple fibre orientations: What can we gain? NeuroImage 34(1):144–155. |
track (with PreferredModel:bedpost) |
Behrens T.E., Johansen-Berg H., Jbabdi S., Rushworth M. & Woolrich M. (2007). Probabilistic diffusion tractography with multiple fibre orientations: What can we gain? NeuroImage 34(1):144–155. |
hnt-eval, hnt-interpret, hnt-ref, hnt-viz |
Clayden J.D., Bastin M.E. & Storkey A.J. (2006). Improved segmentation reproducibility in group tractography using a quantitative tract similarity measure. NeuroImage 33(2):482–492. |
pnt-data (with standard reference tracts) |
Muñoz Maniega S., Bastin M.E., Deary I.J., Wardlaw J.M. & Clayden J.D. (2017). Improved reference tracts for unsupervised brain white matter tractography. In M. Valdés Hernández & V. González-Castro (eds.), Proceedings of Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA). Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 723, pp. 1–11. |
| Muñoz Maniega S., Bastin M.E., McIntosh A.M., Lawrie S.M. & Clayden J.D. (2008). Atlas-based reference tracts improve automatic white matter segmentation with neighbourhood tractography. In Proceedings of the ISMRM 16th Scientific Meeting & Exhibition, Toronto, Canada; p. 3318. | |
pnt-ref, pnt-train, pnt-eval |
Clayden J.D., Storkey A.J. & Bastin M.E. (2007). A probabilistic model-based approach to consistent white matter tract segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 26(11):1555–1561. |
pnt-em |
Clayden J.D., Storkey A.J., Muñoz Maniega S. & Bastin M.E. (2009). Reproducibility of tract segmentation between sessions using an unsupervised modelling-based approach. NeuroImage 45(2):377–385. |
pnt-prune |
Clayden J.D., King M.D. & Clark C.A. (2009). Shape modelling for tract selection. In Yang G.-Z., Hawkes D., Rueckert D., Noble A. & Taylor C. (eds), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5762, pp. 150–157. Springer-Verlag. |
pnt-sample |
Muñoz Maniega S., Bastin M.E., Deary I.J., Wardlaw J.M. & Clayden J.D. (2018). Reference tracts and generative models for brain white matter tractography. Journal of Imaging 4(1):8. |
reg-linear (with Method:fsl) |
Jenkinson M., Bannister P., Brady J. & Smith S. (2002). Improved optimisation for the robust and accurate linear registration and motion correction of brain images. NeuroImage 17(2):825–841. |
reg-linear (with Method:niftyreg) |
Modat M., Cash D.M., Daga P., Winston G.P, Duncan J.S & Ourselin S. (2014). Global image registration using a symmetric block-matching approach. Journal of Medical Imaging 1(2):024003. |
reg-nonlinear |
Modat M., Ridgway G., Taylor Z., Lehmann M., Barnes J., Hawkes D., Fox N. & Ourselin S. (2010). Fast free-form deformation using graphics processing units. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 98(3):278–284. |
freesurf |
Please see http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FreeSurferMethodsCitation. |
graph-build (with Type:functional and UseShrinkage:true) |
Schäfer J. & Strimmer K. (2005). A shrinkage approach to large-scale covariance matrix estimation and implications for functional genomics. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 4(1):32. |
| Opgen-Rhein R. & Strimmer K. (2007). Accurate ranking of differentially expressed genes by a distributi on-free shrinkage approach. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 6(1):9. | |
graph-decompose (with Method:principal-networks) |
Clayden J.D., Dayan M. & Clark C.A. (2013). Principal networks. PLoS ONE 8(4):e60997. |
graph-decompose (with Method:modularity) |
Newman M. (2006). Modularity and community structure in networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103:8577–8582. |
graph-props (with Binarise:false and WeightedClusteringCoefficient:onnela) |
Onnela J.P., Saramaki J., Kertesz J. & Kaski K. (2005). Intensity and coherence of motifs in weighted complex networks. Physics Review E 71:065103. |
graph-props (with Binarise:false and WeightedClusteringCoefficient:barrat) |
Barrat A., Barthelemy M., Pastor-Satorras R. & Vespignani A. (2004). The architecture of complex weighted networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101:3747–3752. |