Identification of cortical landmarks based on consistent connectivity to subcortical structures

Degang Zhang, Lei Guo, Dajiang Zhu, Tuo Zhang, Xintao Hu, Kaiming Li, Xi Jiang, Hanbo Chen, Jinglei Lv, Fan Deng, Qun Zhao

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Abstract

Quantitative assessment of structural connectivities between cortical and subcortical regions has been of increasing interest in recent years. This paper proposes an algorithmic pipeline for identification of reliable cortical landmarks based on the consistent structural connectivity between cortical and subcortical regions. First, twelve subcortical regions are segmented from MRI data, and cortical surface and white matter fibers are reconstructed and tracked from magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data. Second, given that subcortical structures are relatively consistent across individual subjects, the structural connectivity from cortical to subcortical regions is extracted as the connectional attribute for each cortical region. Third, the cortex is segmented into different regions based on their cortico-subcortical connection attributes, and regions with the most consistent connectivity patterns across different subjects are selected as cortical landmarks. Experimental results from eight healthy subjects show that our approaches can identify 22 reliable cortical landmarks, a portion of which are validated via task-based fMRI data.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMultimodal Brain Image Analysis - First International Workshop, MBIA 2011, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2011, Proceedings
Pages68-75
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event1st International Workshop on Multimodal Brain Image Analysis, MBIA 2011, in Conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2011 - Toronto, ON, Canada
Duration: 18 Sep 201118 Sep 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7012 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Workshop on Multimodal Brain Image Analysis, MBIA 2011, in Conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2011
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto, ON
Period18/09/1118/09/11

Keywords

  • connectivity pattern
  • cortical parcellation
  • subcortical regions

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