A Computational Method for Longitudinal Mapping of Orientation-specific Expansion of Cortical Surface in Infants

The cerebral cortex of the human brain is a highly convoluted, sheet-like structure of gray matter, with the cortical folds formed during late gestation (Chi et  al., 1977; Dubois et al., 2007; Habas et al., 2011; Kim et al., 2016; Zilles et al., 2013). At term birth, although all primary and secondary cortical folds, as well as many tertiary cortical folds, are well established, both brain volume and cortical surface area are only one-third of those o f adults (Dubois et al., 2007; Hill et al., 2010; Li et al., 2014a).

Source: Medical Image Analysis - July 21, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Jing Xia, Fan Wang, Yu Meng, Zhengwang Wu, Li Wang, Weili Lin, Caiming Zhang, Dinggang Shen, Gang Li Source Type: research