Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6023770 | NeuroImage | 2016 | 27 Pages |
Abstract
The baboon (Papio) brain is a remarkable model for investigating the brain. The current work aimed at creating a population-average baboon (Papio anubis) brain template and its left/right hemisphere symmetric version from a large sample of T1-weighted magnetic resonance images collected from 89 individuals. Averaging the prior probability maps output during the segmentation of each individual also produced the first baboon brain tissue probability maps for gray matter, white matter and cerebrospinal fluid. The templates and the tissue probability maps were created using state-of-the-art, freely available software tools and are being made freely and publicly available: http://www.nitrc.org/projects/haiko89/ or http://lpc.univ-amu.fr/spip.php?article589. It is hoped that these images will aid neuroimaging research of the baboon by, for example, providing a modern, high quality normalization target and accompanying standardized coordinate system as well as probabilistic priors that can be used during tissue segmentation.
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Authors
Scott A. Love, Damien Marie, Muriel Roth, Romain Lacoste, Bruno Nazarian, Alice Bertello, Olivier Coulon, Jean-Luc Anton, Adrien Meguerditchian,