Using UK Biobank data to establish population-specific atlases from whole body MRI.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reliable reference data in medical imaging is largely unavailable. Developing tools that allow for the comparison of individual patient data to reference data has a high potential to improve diagnostic imaging. Population atlases are a commonly used tool in medical imaging to facilitate this. Constructing such atlases becomes particularly challenging when working with highly heterogeneous datasets, such as whole-body images, which contain significant anatomical variations.

Method

In this work, we propose a pipeline for generating a standardised whole-body atlas for a highly heterogeneous population by partitioning the population into anatomically meaningful subgroups. Using magnetic resonance images from the UK Biobank dataset, we create six whole-body atlases rep

SUBMITTER: Starck S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11577111 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature