Automatic Fiber Tracking

Use –action=atk to initiate automatic fiber tracking

Automatic fiber tracking maps individual bundles using deterministic fiber tracking and tract recognition. The implementation is detailed in Yeh, Fang-Cheng. “Shape analysis of the human association pathways.” Neuroimage 223 (2020): 117329.

Examples

*Run fiber tracking on all fib.gz files to map all association pathways

dsi_studio --action=atk --source=*.fib.gz

*Run fiber tracking on all fib.gz files to map corticospinal tracts and optic radiation

dsi_studio --action=atk --source=*.fib.gz --track_id=Corticos,Optic

*Run fiber tracking on all fib.gz files and output tracts to the template space

dsi_studio --action=atk --source=*.fib.gz --export_template_trk=1

Core Functions

Parameters Default Description
source   Specify fib.gz files for automatic bundle tracking.
track_id Arcuate,Cingulum,Aslant,InferiorFronto,InferiorLongitudinal,SuperiorLongitudinal,Uncinate,Fornix,Corticos,ThalamicR,Optic,Lemniscus,Reticular,Corpus Specify the name or the bundles separated by commas. A partial name is accepted. The complete list of the available pathways can be found here
example:
for tracking left and right arcuate fasciculus, assign –track_id=arcuate (DSI Studio will find bundles with names containing ‘arcuate’, case insensitive)
example:
for tracking left and right arcuate and cingulum, assign –track_id=arcuate,cingulum
template 0 Specify the template. Current DSI Studio only has atk for ICBM152,INDI_rhesus,Pitt_Marmoset :
0:ICBM152
1:CIVM_mouse
2:Neonate
3:INDI_rhesus
4:Pitt_Marmoset
5:WHS_SD_rat
tolerance 22,26,30 the tolerance for bundle recognition. The unit is in mm. Multiple values can be assigned using a comma separator. A larger value may include larger track variation but also subject to more false results.
track_voxel_ratio 2.0 the track-voxel ratio for the total number of the streamline count. A larger value gives better mapping at the expense of computation time.
check_ending 1 and 0 for cingulum remove tracts if they terminate in high anisotropy locations.
thread_count hardware max Specify the number of CPU cores used in computation
yield_rate ‘0.00001’ This rate will be used to terminate tracking early if DSI Studio finds the fiber trackings are not generating results
default_mask 0 Specify whether the default mask is used.
overwrite 0 Specify whether to overwrite existing files.
export_stat 1 Specify whether to output track statistics.
export_trk 1 Specify whether to output the tractography file.
export_template_trk 0 Specify whether to output tractography in the template space.
trk_format tt.gz Specify the postfix and the output format of the tractography. Supported formats include tt.gz trk trk.gz tck txt mat nii nii.gz. It also allows for changing the postfix of the filename
stat_format stat.txt Specify the postfix for the statistics text file (has to be in text format).
output the directory of the first file specified in –source Specify the output directory

Fiber tracking parameters such as –otsu_threshold, –fa_Threshold, –turning_angle, –step_size, –smoothing, –tip_iteration are also supported. (–min_length and –max_length are not supported because the length constraint will be automatically determined from the atlas)