I have computed a FA images for a DTI dataset and registered the FA images to a specific brainstem atlas. I now need to analyze the tractography of this atlas and its relation to the FA image. What statistical toolboxes or methods do you recommend?
Probabilistic tractography can be performed with FSL's BEDPOSTX via seeding from the ROI's in the brainstem atlas and capturing tracts which pass through the ROI.
Deterministic tractography can be performed with 3D Slicer (http://dmri.slicer.org), it automatically applies a housemade atlas though I'm not sure brainstem tracts are included and fiber tracts
for those ROI may have to be clustered by hand (this is a pretty insignificant extra step).
Or you could generate the tractography using MRtrix3 and then use mrcalc to calculate the parameters you are interested in e.g. number of fibers, length of fibers, density of fibers, FA etc.