Assessment of brain growth in early childhood using deformation-based morphometry

P. Aljabar, K. K. Bhatia, M. Murgasova, J. V. Hajnal, J. P. Boardman, L. Srinivasan, M. A. Rutherford, L. E. Dyet, A. D. Edwards, D. Rueckert

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Abstract

We present methods for the quantitative analysis of brain growth based on the registration of longitudinal MR image data with the use of Jacobian determinant maps to characterise neuroanatomical changes. The individual anatomies, growth maps and tissue classes are also spatially normalised in an 'average space' and aggregated to provide atlases for the population at each timepoint. The average space representation is obtained using the average intersubject transformation within each timepoint. In an exemplar study, this approach is used to assess brain development in 25 infants between 1 and 2 years, and we show consistency in growth estimates between registration and segmentation approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)348-358
Number of pages11
JournalNeuroImage
Volume39
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Atlases
  • Growth
  • Registration

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