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Abstract #4306

Infant 0-1-2 Brain Atlases for MRI Segmentation & Normalization

Feng Shi1, Guorong Wu1, Pew-Thian Yap1, Hongjun Jia1, John H. Gilmore2, Weili Lin1, Dinggang Shen1

1Department of Radiology & BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States; 2Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States


Direct applying adult or even pediatric atlases may compromise accuracy in analyzing infant brain images. In this abstract, we introduce a set of brain atlases which are dedicated for neonates, 1-year-olds, and 2-year-olds. Each atlas comprises a set of 3D images made up of the intensity model, tissue probability maps, and anatomical parcellation map. These components are constructed with the help of state-of-the-art infant MR segmentation and groupwise registration methods, applied on a set of infant images which are longitudinally acquired from 95 healthy infants. These atlases are publicly available on our website, http://bric.unc.edu/ideagroup/free-softwares/.