BRAINS Automated Pipeline

Objective:

Develop tools to eliminate the need for manual intervention for the analysis of brain morphology using MR images. We currently have a semiautomated pipeline that includes the following steps

• AC-PC Alignment of T1 Volume
• Co-registration of T2 weighted images to AC-PC Aligned T1
• Bias Field Correction
• Tissue Classification
• Talairach Atlas Segmentation
• Neural Network Segmentation
• Surface Generation
• Measurements of Volumetric and Surface Data

Progress:

Key Investigators:

• University of Iowa: Vincent Magnotta, Hans Johnson, Nancy Andreasen
• The MIND Institute: Jeremy Bockholt

Links:

• University of Iowa Department of Psychiatry
• University of Iowa MRI Center
• The MIND Institute

Papers: