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.

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

Creative Commons License

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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

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