Explanations

Automated Fiber Quantification

Tractography based on diffusion weighted MRI (dMRI) is used to find the major white matter fascicles (tracts) in the living human brain. The health of these tracts is an important factor underlying many cognitive and neurological disorders.

Tissue properties may vary systematically along each tract: different populations of axons enter and exit the tract, and disease can strike at local positions within the tract. Because of this, quantifying and understanding diffusion measures along each fiber tract (the tract profile) may reveal new insights into white matter development, function, and disease that are not obvious from mean measures of that tract ([Yeatman2012]).

pyAFQ is a software package focused on automated delineation of the major fiber tracts in individual human brains, and quantification of the tissue properties within the tracts. To learn more about the software please refer to the Table of Contents.

For further statistical analysis of pyAFQ results, see AFQ-Insight .

• AFQ Tractometry Pipeline
• Bundle Orientation