Group-wise graph matching of cortical gyral hinges

Tuo Zhang, Xiao Li, Lin Zhao, Ying Huang, Zhibin He, Lei Guo, Tianming Liu

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Abstract

Human brain image alignment has long been an intriguing research topic. The difficulty lies in the huge inter-individual variation. Also, it is not fully understood how structural similarity across subjects is related to functional correspondence. Recently, a gyral folding pattern, which is the conjunction of gyri from multiple directions and termed gyral hinge, was characterized. Gyral hinges have been demonstrated to have structural and functional importance and some of them were found to have cross-subject correspondences by manual labeling. However, there is no automatic method to estimate the cross-subject correspondences for whole-brain gyral hinges yet. To this end, we propose a novel group-wise graph matching framework, to which we feed structural connective matrices among gyral hinges from all subjects. The correspondence estimated by this framework is demonstrated by cross-subject consistency of both structural connective and functional profiles. Also, our results outperform the correspondences identified by pairwise graph matching and image-based registration methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2019 - 22nd International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsDinggang Shen, Pew-Thian Yap, Tianming Liu, Terry M. Peters, Ali Khan, Lawrence H. Staib, Caroline Essert, Sean Zhou
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages75-83
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030322502
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 13 Oct 201917 Oct 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11767 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period13/10/1917/10/19

Keywords

  • Cross-subject correspondence
  • Gyral hinges
  • Structural connectivity

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