Comparison of Manual and Automated Fiber Quantification Tractography in Patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

ConclusionsManual and AFQ tractography approaches revealed significant correlations in the reconstruction of tract morphology and extracted whole and along-tract diffusivity values. However, as non-identical methods they differed in the respective yield of significant results across clinical correlations and group-wise statistics. Given the absence of excellent agreement between manual and AFQ techniques as demonstrated in the present study, caution should be considered when using AFQ particularly when used without reference to benchmark manual measures.
Source: NeuroImage: Clinical - Category: Radiology Source Type: research