title: The average baboon brain: MRI templates and tissue probability maps from 89 individuals.
abstract: The baboon (Papio) brain is a remarkable model for investigating the brain. The current work aimed at creating a population-average baboon (Papio anubis) brain template and its left/right hemisphere symmetric version from a large sample of T1-weighted magnetic resonance images collected from 89 individuals. Averaging the prior probability maps output during the segmentation of each individual also produced the first baboon brain tissue probability maps for gray matter, white matter and cerebrospinal fluid. The templates and the tissue probability maps were created using state-of-the-art, freely available software tools and are being made freely and publicly available: http://www.nitrc.org/projects/haiko89/ or http://lpc.univ-amu.fr/spip.php?article589. It is hoped that these images will aid neuroimaging research of the baboon by, for example, providing a modern, high quality normalization target and accompanying standardized coordinate system as well as probabilistic priors that can be used during tissue segmentation.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, UMR7290, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13331 Marseille, France; Station de Primatologie, CNRS, UPS846, 13790 Rousset, France; Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone, UMR7289, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13005 Marseille, France. Electronic address: love.a.scott@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Scott A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Love
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, UMR7290, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13331 Marseille, France; Station de Primatologie, CNRS, UPS846, 13790 Rousset, France.
authors.forename: Damien
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marie
authors.affiliation: Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone, UMR7289, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13005 Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Muriel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Roth
authors.affiliation: Station de Primatologie, CNRS, UPS846, 13790 Rousset, France.
authors.forename: Romain
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lacoste
authors.affiliation: Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone, UMR7289, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13005 Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nazarian
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, UMR7290, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13331 Marseille, France; Station de Primatologie, CNRS, UPS846, 13790 Rousset, France; Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, 31300 Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bertello
authors.affiliation: Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone, UMR7289, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13005 Marseille, France; Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes, UMR 7296, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13288 Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Coulon
authors.affiliation: Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone, UMR7289, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13005 Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Jean-Luc
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Anton
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, UMR7290, Université Aix-Marseille/CNRS, 13331 Marseille, France; Station de Primatologie, CNRS, UPS846, 13790 Rousset, France. Electronic address: adrien.meguerditchian@univ-amu.fr.
authors.forename: Adrien
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Meguerditchian
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001271:Atlases as Topic; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D033181:Information Dissemination; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010215:Papio / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D012984:Software
keywords: Atlas; Brain mapping; Non-human primate; Papio anubis; Template; Tissue probability map