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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2024

Automatic cortical surface parcellation in the fetal brain using attention-gated spherical U-net.

Sungmin You, Anette De Leon Barba, Valeria Cruz Tamayo, Hyuk Jin Yun, Edward Yang, P Ellen Grant, Kiho Im

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Sungmin YouFetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Anette De Leon BarbaFetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Valeria Cruz TamayoFetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Hyuk Jin YunFetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Edward YangDepartment of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
P Ellen GrantFetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Kiho ImFetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.

Funding

Genetic Analysis and Manipulation Core (GAEC)P50HD105351 · NICHD · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI SCOTT Loren POMEROY, MUSTAFA SAHIN · 2021 to 2026
$9.4M
Genetic and Hemodynamic Effects on Prenatal Cortical Development in Congenital Heart DiseaseR01NS114087 · NINDS · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI IM, KIHO · 2020 to 2024
$2.8M
Measuring cortical plate and subplate thickness in the human fetal brain from magnetic resonance imagesR01EB031170 · NIBIB · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI IM, KIHO · 2021 to 2025
$2.5M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB031170NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD105351NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS114087
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Abstract

Cortical surface parcellation for fetal brains is essential for the understanding of neurodevelopmental trajectories during gestations with regional analyses of brain structures and functions. This study proposes the attention-gated spherical U-net, a novel deep-learning model designed for automatic cortical surface parcellation of the fetal brain. We trained and validated the model using MRIs from 55 typically developing fetuses [gestational weeks: 32.9 ± 3.3 (mean ± SD), 27.4-38.7]. The proposed model was compared with the surface registration-based method, SPHARM-net, and the original spherical U-net. Our model demonstrated significantly higher accuracy in parcellation performance compared to previous methods, achieving an overall Dice coefficient of 0.899 ± 0.020. It also showed the lowest error in terms of the median boundary distance, 2.47 ± 1.322 (mm), and mean absolute percent error in surface area measurement, 10.40 ± 2.64 (%). In this study, we showed the efficacy of the attention gates in capturing the subtle but important information in fetal cortical surface parcellation. Our precise automatic parcellation model could increase sensitivity in detecting regional cortical anomalies and lead to the potential for early detection of neurodevelopmental disorders in fetuses.

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attention mechanismbrain MRIcortical surface parcellationdeep learningfetal MRIspherical U-net

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PMID38872945
PMCPMC11169851

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