A new neonatal cortical and subcortical brain atlas: the Melbourne Children's Regional Infant Brain (M-CRIB) atlas

B Alexander; AL Murray; WY Loh; LG Matthews; C Adamson; R Beare; J Chen; CE Kelly; S Rees; SK Warfield; PJ Anderson; LW Doyle; AJ Spittle; JLY Cheong; ML Seal; DK Thompson

Journal article

A new neonatal cortical and subcortical brain atlas: the Melbourne Children's Regional Infant Brain (M-CRIB) atlas

B Alexander, AL Murray, WY Loh, LG Matthews, C Adamson, R Beare, J Chen, CE Kelly, S Rees, SK Warfield, PJ Anderson, LW Doyle, AJ Spittle, JLY Cheong, ML Seal, DK Thompson

Neuroimage | ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.09.068

Abstract

Investigating neonatal brain structure and function can offer valuable insights into behaviour and cognition in healthy and clinical populations; both at term age, and longitudinally in comparison with later time points. Parcellated brain atlases for adult populations are readily available, however warping infant data to adult template space is not ideal due to morphological and tissue differences between these groups. Several parcellated neonatal atlases have been developed, although there remains strong demand for manually parcellated ground truth data with detailed cortical definition. Additionally, compatibility with existing adult atlases is favourable for use in longitudinal investigat..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Sandra Rees Author

Lex Doyle Author

Alicia Spittle Author

Jeanie Cheong Author

Grants

Awarded by Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

Funding Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge ideas and support provided by members of the Victorian Infant Brain Studies (VIBeS) group, Developmental Imaging group, and Melbourne Children's MRI Centre at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. This work was supported in part by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Project Grant ID 1028822; Centre of Clinical Research Excellence Grant ID 546519; Centre of Research Excellence Grant ID 1060733; Senior Research Fellowship ID 1081288 to P.J.A.; Early Career Fellowship ID 1053787 to J.L.Y.C., ID 1053767 to A.J.S., ID 1012236 to D.K.T.; Career Development Fellowship ID 1108714 to A.J.S., ID 1085754 to D.K.T.), Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Clinical Sciences Theme Grant, the Victorian Government Operational Infrastructure Support Program, and The Royal Children's Hospital Foundation.