Probabilistic anatomo-functional parcellation of the cortex: how many regions?

Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2008;11(Pt 2):399-406. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-85990-1_48.

Abstract

Understanding brain structure and function entails the inclusion of anatomical and functional information in a common space, in order to study how these different informations relate to each other in a population of subjects. In this paper, we revisit the parcellation model and explicitly combine anatomical features, i.e. a segmentation of the cortex into gyri, with a functional information under the form of several cortical maps, which are used to further subdivide the gyri into functionally consistent regions. A probabilistic model is introduced, and the parcellation model is estimated using a Variational Bayes approach. The number of regions in the model is validated based on cross-validation. It is found that about 250 patches of cortex can be delineated both in the left and right hemisphere based on this procedure.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Artificial Intelligence*
  • Bayes Theorem
  • Brain / anatomy & histology*
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical
  • Humans
  • Image Enhancement / methods
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated / methods*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity