A graphics processing unit implemented method for fiber tract mapping from
diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging data includes providing a
diffusion tensor magnetic resonance brain image volume, initializing a
set of fiber positions in a 3D set of points, fiber displacements, and a
posterior distribution for an updated fiber displacement in terms of the
initial displacements and diffusion tensors, randomly sampling a set of
updated fiber displacements from said posterior distribution, computing a
new set of fiber positions from said initial fiber positions and said
updated fiber displacements, wherein a fiber path comprises a set of
fiber points connected by successive fiber displacements, accumulating
connectivity values in each point of said 3D set of points by additive
alpha-blending a scaled value if a fiber path has passed through a point
and adding zero if not, and rendering said connectivity values.