Gyral Net: A New Representation of Cortical Folding Organization

Modern magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques enable in vivo studies of the cortical folding patterns, which attract growing research interest. It has been shown that an understanding of the cortical folding can benefit cytoarchitectonic areal parcellation (Fischl  et al., 2008), normal maturation and neurodegenerative process investigation (Giedd et al., 1999), and abnormal brain development understanding (Schaer et al., 2008). As a convoluted surface, the neocortex is usually represented by a reconstructed mesh surface, upon which quantitative analyse s are performed.

Source: Medical Image Analysis - July 15, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Hanbo Chen, Yujie Li, Fangfei Ge, Gang Li, Dinggang Shen, Tianming Liu Source Type: research