We present Patch-CNN-DTI, a deep-learning method to estimate diffusion tensors (DT) accurately from only 6 diffusion-weighted images. Early voxel-wise deep-learning methods can only estimate scalar measures of DT. Later work shows DT can be estimated using image-wise methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNN), but they require large training cohort. Patch-CNN-DTI can estimate DT with only one training subject, by pooling information from local neighbourhood of a voxel similar to the CNN but at a much smaller scale to minimise training data requirements. Results show it outperforms conventional model fitting with twice the number of diffusion directions.
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