Infant Brain Atlases from Neonates to 1- and 2-Year-Olds

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 6; no. 4; p. e18746
• Main Authors: Shi, Feng, Yap, Pew-Thian, Wu, Guorong, Jia, Hongjun, Gilmore, John H., Lin, Weili, Shen, Dinggang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 14.04.2011; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Accuracy; Adults; Age; Atlases as Topic; Babies; Bibliography; Biology; Brain; Brain - anatomy & histology; Brain mapping; Child, Preschool; Data acquisition; Data processing; Engineering; Female; Females; Humans; Image contrast; Image processing; Image segmentation; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Infants; Information processing; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Males; Medical imaging; Medicine; Morphology; Neonates; Neuroimaging; Newborn babies; Newborn infants; Recruitment; Registration; Segmentation; Structure-function relationships; North Carolina; United States > US

Studies for infants are usually hindered by the insufficient image contrast, especially for neonates. Prior knowledge, in the form of atlas, can provide additional guidance for the data processing such as spatial normalization, label propagation, and tissue segmentation. Although it is highly desire...