Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2019
Journal
Human brain mapping
Volume
40
Issue
14
First Page
4163
Last Page
4179
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24693
Abstract
Accurate spatial correspondence between template and subject images is a crucial step in neuroimaging studies and clinical applications like stereotactic neurosurgery. In the absence of a robust quantitative approach, we sought to propose and validate a set of point landmarks, anatomical fiducials (AFIDs), that could be quickly, accurately, and reliably placed on magnetic resonance images of the human brain. Using several publicly available brain templates and individual participant datasets, novice users could be trained to place a set of 32 AFIDs with millimetric accuracy. Furthermore, the utility of the AFIDs protocol is demonstrated for evaluating subject-to-template and template-to-template registration. Specifically, we found that commonly used voxel overlap metrics were relatively insensitive to focal misregistrations compared to AFID point-based measures. Our entire protocol and study framework leverages open resources and tools, and has been developed with full transparency in mind so that others may freely use, adopt, and modify. This protocol holds value for a broad number of applications including alignment of brain images and teaching neuroanatomy.
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Citation of this paper:
Lau, JC, Parrent, AG, Demarco, J, et al. A framework for evaluating correspondence between brain images using anatomical fiducials. Hum Brain Mapp. 2019; 40: 4163– 4179. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24693
Notes
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hbm.24693
Ali R. Khan and Terry M. Peters are Joint senior authors.Funding information: Compute Canada; Brain Canada; Canada First Research Excellence Fund; Health Research; Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Western University