title: Registration of cortical surfaces using sulcal landmarks for group analysis of MEG data.
abstract: We present a method to register individual cortical surfaces to a surface-based brain atlas or canonical template using labeled sulcal curves as landmark constraints. To map one cortex smoothly onto another, we minimize a thin-plate spline energy defined on the surface by solving the associated partial differential equations (PDEs). By using covariant derivatives in solving these PDEs, we compute the bending energy with respect to the intrinsic geometry of the 3D surface rather than evaluating it in the flattened metric of the 2D parameter space. This covariant approach greatly reduces the confounding effects of the surface parameterization on the resulting registration.
authors.affiliation: Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, USA.
authors.forename: Anand A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Joshi
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Shattuck
authors.forename: Paul M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Richard M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Leahy
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