An anatomically curated fiber clustering white matter atlas for consistent white matter tract parcellation across the lifespan.

ABSTRACT: This work presents an anatomically curated white matter atlas to enable consistent white matter tract parcellation across different populations. Leveraging a well-established computational pipeline for fiber clustering, we create a tract-based white matter atlas including information from 100 subjects. A novel anatomical annotation method is proposed that leverages population-based brain anatomical information and expert neuroanatomical knowledge to annotate and categorize the fiber clusters. A total of 256 white matter structures are annotated in the proposed atlas, which provides one of the most comprehensive tract-based white matter atlases covering the entire brain to date. These structures are composed of 58 deep white matter tracts including major long range association and projectio

SUBMITTER: Zhang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6080311 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature