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Knowledge-Guided Robust MRI Brain Extraction for Diverse Large-Scale Neuroimaging Studies on Humans and Non-Human Primates

Authors
Wang, YapingNie, JingxinYap, Pew-ThianLi, GangShi, FengGeng, XiujuanGuo, LeiShen, Dinggang
Issue Date
29-1월-2014
Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
Citation
PLOS ONE, v.9, no.1
Indexed
SCIE
SCOPUS
Journal Title
PLOS ONE
Volume
9
Number
1
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/99493
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0077810
ISSN
1932-6203
Abstract
Accurate and robust brain extraction is a critical step in most neuroimaging analysis pipelines. In particular, for the large-scale multi-site neuroimaging studies involving a significant number of subjects with diverse age and diagnostic groups, accurate and robust extraction of the brain automatically and consistently is highly desirable. In this paper, we introduce population-specific probability maps to guide the brain extraction of diverse subject groups, including both healthy and diseased adult human populations, both developing and aging human populations, as well as non-human primates. Specifically, the proposed method combines an atlas-based approach, for coarse skull-stripping, with a deformable-surface-based approach that is guided by local intensity information and population-specific prior information learned from a set of real brain images for more localized refinement. Comprehensive quantitative evaluations were performed on the diverse large-scale populations of ADNI dataset with over 800 subjects (55 similar to 90 years of age, multi-site, various diagnosis groups), OASIS dataset with over 400 subjects (18 similar to 96 years of age, wide age range, various diagnosis groups), and NIH pediatrics dataset with 150 subjects (5 similar to 18 years of age, multi-site, wide age range as a complementary age group to the adult dataset). The results demonstrate that our method consistently yields the best overall results across almost the entire human life span, with only a single set of parameters. To demonstrate its capability to work on non-human primates, the proposed method is further evaluated using a rhesus macaque dataset with 20 subjects. Quantitative comparisons with popularly used state-of-the-art methods, including BET, Two-pass BET, BET-B, BSE, HWA, ROBEX and AFNI, demonstrate that the proposed method performs favorably with superior performance on all testing datasets, indicating its robustness and effectiveness.
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