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ArticleNeuroImage2019

Topological correction of infant white matter surfaces using anatomically constrained convolutional neural network.

Liang Sun, Daoqiang Zhang, Chunfeng Lian, Li Wang, Zhengwang Wu, Wei Shao, Weili Lin, Dinggang Shen, Gang Li, UNC/UMN Baby Connectome Project Consortium

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18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  16. Disentangled Intensive Triplet Autoencoder for Infant Functional Connectome Fingerprinting.Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention · 2020
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  18. A Deep Network for Joint Registration and Parcellation of Cortical Surfaces.Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
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10 authors.

Liang SunCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIIT Key Laboratory of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Nanjing, 211106, China; Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, USA.
Daoqiang ZhangCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIIT Key Laboratory of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Nanjing, 211106, China. Electronic address: dqzhang@nuaa.edu.cn.
Chunfeng LianDepartment of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, USA.
Li WangDepartment of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, USA.
Zhengwang WuDepartment of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, USA.
Wei ShaoCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIIT Key Laboratory of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Nanjing, 211106, China.
Weili LinDepartment of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, USA.
Dinggang ShenDepartment of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, USA; Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: dgshen@med.unc.edu.
Gang LiDepartment of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, USA. Electronic address: gang_li@med.unc.edu.
UNC/UMN Baby Connectome Project Consortium

Funding

UNC/UMN Baby Connectome ProjectU01MH110274 · NIMH · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ELISON, JED THOMAS, GILMORE, JOHN HORACE · 2016 to 2019
$4.5M
Continued Development of Infant Brain Analysis ToolsR01MH117943 · NIMH · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LI, GANG, WANG, LI · 2018 to 2022
$2.3M
Parcellating Infant Cerebral Cortex based on Developmental Patterns of Multimodal MRIR01MH116225 · NIMH · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LI, GANG · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
Volume-based Analysis of 6-month Infant Brain MRI for Autism Biomarker Identification and Early DiagnosisK01MH109773 · NIMH · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WANG, LI · 2017 to 2020
$571k
4D Cortical Surface Analysis Tools for Study of Early Brain Development in Typical and High-risk InfantsK01MH107815 · NIMH · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LI, GANG · 2015 to 2018
$559k
Constructing 4-dimensional Infant Cortical Surface AtlasesR21MH108914 · NIMH · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LI, GANG · 2016 to 2017
$418k
NIMH NIH HHS K01 MH107815NIMH NIH HHS K01 MH109773NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH116225NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH117943NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH108914NIMH NIH HHS U01 MH110274
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reconstruction of accurate cortical surfaces without topological errors (i.e., handles and holes) from infant brain MR images is very important in early brain development studies. However, infant brain MR images typically suffer extremely low tissue contrast and dynamic imaging appearance patterns. Thus, it is inevitable to have large amounts of topological errors in the segmented infant brain tissue images, which lead to inaccurately reconstructed cortical surfaces with topological errors. To address this issue, inspired by recent advances in deep learning, we propose an anatomically constrained network for topological correction on infant cortical surfaces. Specifically, in our method, we first locate regions of potential topological defects by leveraging a topology-preserving level set method. Then, we propose an anatomically constrained network to correct those candidate voxels in the located regions. Since infant cortical surfaces often contain large and complex handles or holes, it is difficult to completely correct all errors using one-shot correction. Therefore, we further enroll these two steps into an iterative framework to gradually correct large topological errors. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to introduce deep learning approach for topological correction of infant cortical surfaces. We compare our method with the state-of-the-art methods on both simulated topological errors and real topological errors in human infant brain MR images. Moreover, we also validate our method on the infant brain MR images of macaques. All experimental results show the superior performance of the proposed method.

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Magnetic Resonance ImagingNeural Networks, ComputerAnimalsArtifactsBrainBrain MappingHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedInfantMacacaReproducibility of ResultsWhite MatterAnatomically constrained networkInfant cortical surfacesTopological correction

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PMID31112785
PMCPMC6602545

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