Abstract
Longitudinal infant dedicated cerebellum atlases play a fundamental role in characterizing and understanding the dynamic cerebellum development during infancy. However, due to the limited spatial resolution, low tissue contrast, tiny folding structures, and rapid growth of the cerebellum during this stage, it is challenging to build such atlases while preserving clear folding details. Furthermore, the existing atlas construction methods typically independently build discrete atlases based on samples for each age group without considering the within-subject temporal consistency, which is critical for large-scale longitudinal studies. To fill this gap, we propose an age-conditional multi-stage learning framework to construct longitudinally consistent 4D infant cerebellum atlases. Specifically, 1) A joint affine and deformable atlas construction framework is proposed to accurately build temporally continuous atlases based on the entire cohort, and rapidly warp the new images to the atlas space; 2) A longitudinal constraint is employed to enforce the within-subject temporal consistency during atlas building; 3) A Correntropy based regularization loss is further exploited to enhance the robustness of our framework. Our atlases are constructed based on 405 longitudinal scans from 187 healthy infants with age ranging from 6 to 27 months, and are compared to the atlases built by state-of-the-art algorithms. Results demonstrate that our atlases preserve more structural details and fine-grained cerebellum folding patterns, which ensure higher accuracy in subsequent atlas-based registration and segmentation tasks.
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This work was partially supported by NIH grants (MH116225, MH109773, MH117943, and MH123202). This work also utilizes approaches developed by an NIH grant (1U01MH110274) and the efforts of the UNC/UMN Baby Connectome Project Consortium.
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Chen, L. et al. (2021). Construction of Longitudinally Consistent 4D Infant Cerebellum Atlases Based on Deep Learning. In: de Bruijne, M., et al. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2021. MICCAI 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12904. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87202-1_14
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