title: A magnetic resonance image based atlas of the rabbit brain for automatic parcellation.
abstract: Rabbit brain has been used in several works for the analysis of neurodevelopment. However, there are not specific digital rabbit brain atlases that allow an automatic identification of brain regions, which is a crucial step for various neuroimage analyses, and, instead, manual delineation of areas of interest must be performed in order to evaluate a specific structure. For this reason, we propose an atlas of the rabbit brain based on magnetic resonance imaging, including both structural and diffusion weighted, that can be used for the automatic parcellation of the rabbit brain. Ten individual atlases, as well as an average template and probabilistic maps of the anatomical regions were built. In addition, an example of automatic segmentation based on this atlas is described.
authors.affiliation: Fetal and Perinatal Medicine Research Group, Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain. emunozm@clinic.ub.es
authors.forename: Emma
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Muñoz-Moreno
authors.forename: Ariadna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arbat-Plana
authors.forename: Dafnis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Batalle
authors.forename: Guadalupe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Soria
authors.forename: Miriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Illa
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Prats-Galino
authors.forename: Elisenda
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Eixarch
authors.forename: Eduard
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gratacos
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000716:Anatomy, Artistic; D000818:Animals; D001271:Atlases as Topic; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D005260:Female; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D011336:Probability; D011817:Rabbits / Q000033:anatomy & histology*