Progresses of human brain atlas construction / 中国医学影像技术

ABSTRACT

Brain atlas, as a representative brain model of a population, usually includes brain structure image, brain parcellation and so on. Brain atlas plays an important role in the field of brain neuroimaging, which can provide a standard normalization space for group analysis, also be used to transfer prior knowledge, i.e., brain segmentation labels and anatomical landmarks from atlas space to subject space. In general, building a brain atlas includes image collection, image registration and atlas construction. With the advances of neuroimaging processing and analysis techniques, the quality of brain atlas has gradually increased, and the range of applications has gradually expanded. The progresses of construction methods and application of brain atlas were reviewed in this article.