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A framework based on sulcal constraints to align preterm, infant and adult human brain images acquired in vivo and post mortem

Authors: J. Lebenberg, M. Labit, G. Auzias, H. Mohlberg, C. Fischer, D. Rivière, E. Duchesnay, C. Kabdebon, F. Leroy, N. Labra, F. Poupon, T. Dickscheid, L. Hertz-Pannier, C. Poupon, G. Dehaene-Lambertz, P. Hüppi, K. Amunts, J. Dubois, J.-F. Mangin

Published in: Brain Structure and Function | Issue 9/2018

Abstract

Robust spatial alignment of post mortem data and in vivo MRI acquisitions from different ages, especially from the early developmental stages, into standard spaces is still a bottleneck hampering easy comparison with the mainstream neuroimaging results. In this paper, we test a landmark-based spatial normalization strategy as a framework for the seamless integration of any macroscopic dataset in the context of the Human Brain Project (HBP). This strategy stems from an approach called DISCO embedding sulcal constraints in a registration framework used to initialize DARTEL, the widely used spatial normalization approach proposed in the SPM software. We show that this strategy is efficient with a heterogeneous dataset including challenging data as preterm newborns, infants, post mortem histological data and a synthetic atlas computed from averaging the ICBM database, as well as more commonly studied data acquired in vivo in adults. We then describe some perspectives for a research program aiming at improving folding pattern matching for atlas inference in the context of the future HBP’s portal.

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Title: A framework based on sulcal constraints to align preterm, infant and adult human brain images acquired in vivo and post mortem
Authors: J. Lebenberg
M. Labit
G. Auzias
H. Mohlberg
C. Fischer
D. Rivière
E. Duchesnay
C. Kabdebon
F. Leroy
N. Labra
F. Poupon
T. Dickscheid
L. Hertz-Pannier
C. Poupon
G. Dehaene-Lambertz
P. Hüppi
K. Amunts
J. Dubois
J.-F. Mangin
Publication date: 01-12-2018
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Brain Structure and Function / Issue 9/2018
Print ISSN: 1863-2653
Electronic ISSN: 1863-2661
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-018-1735-9

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