The Connectivity Tracking (ConTrack) technique contains three stages 1) pathway candidate generation, 2) candidate scoring, and 3) inference of the pathways representing the connection.

The ConTrack algorithms use knowledge of DTI scanning physics and apriori information about tissue architecture to identify the location of connections between two regions within the DTI data. Assuming a course of connection or pathway between these two regions is known to exist within the measured tissue, ConTrack can be used to estimate properties of these connections in-vivo.