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In this paper, we propose a unified framework for computing atlases from manually labeled data at various degrees of “sharpness” and the joint registration-segmentation of a new brain with these atlases. In non-rigid registration, the tradeoff between warp regularization and image fidelity is typically set empirically. In segmentation, this leads to a probabilistic atlas of arbitrary “sharpness”: weak regularization results in well-aligned training images and a “sharp” atlas; strong regularization yields a “blurry” atlas. We study the effects of this tradeoff in the context of cortical surface parcellation by comparing three special cases of our framework, namely: progressive registration-segmentation of a new brain to increasingly “sharp” atlases with increasingly flexible warps; secondly, progressive registration to a single atlas with increasingly flexible warps; and thirdly, registration to a single atlas with fixed constrained warps. The optimal parcellation in all three cases corresponds to a unique balance of atlas “sharpness” and warp regularization that yield statistically significant improvements over the previously demonstrated parcellation results.
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Yeo, B.T.T., Sabuncu, M.R., Desikan, R., Fischl, B., Golland, P. (2007). Effects of Registration Regularization and Atlas Sharpness on Segmentation Accuracy. In: Ayache, N., Ourselin, S., Maeder, A. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2007. MICCAI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4791. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75757-3_83
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