Low SNR in Diffusion MRI Models

Jörg Polzehl and Karsten Tabelow

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2016, vol. 111, issue 516, 1480-1490

Abstract: Noise is a common issue for all magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques such as diffusion MRI and obviously leads to variability of the estimates in any model describing the data. Increasing spatial resolution in MR experiments further diminishes the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). However, with low SNR the expected signal deviates from the true value. Common modeling approaches therefore lead to a bias in estimated model parameters. Adjustments require an analysis of the data generating process and a characterization of the resulting distribution of the imaging data. We provide an adequate quasi-likelihood approach that employs these characteristics. We elaborate on the effects of typical data preprocessing and analyze the bias effects related to low SNR for the example of the diffusion tensor model in diffusion MRI. We then demonstrate the relevance of the problem using data from the Human Connectome Project. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2016.1222284

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