Construction of a neonatal cortical surface atlas using Multimodal Surface Matching in the Developing Human Connectome Project.

ABSTRACT: We propose a method for constructing a spatio-temporal cortical surface atlas of neonatal brains aged between 36 and 44 weeks of post-menstrual age (PMA) at the time of scan. The data were acquired as part of the Developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP), and the constructed surface atlases are publicly available. The method is based on a spherical registration approach: Multimodal Surface Matching (MSM), using cortical folding for driving the alignment. Templates have been generated for the anatomical cortical surface and for the cortical feature maps: sulcal depth, curvature, thickness, T1w/T2w myelin maps and cortical regions. To achieve this, cortical surfaces from 270 infants were first projected onto the sphere. Templates were then generated in two stages: first, a reference space w

SUBMITTER: Bozek J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6783315 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature