A digital deformable anisotropic brain atlas based on the Talairach atlas and recursive spatial data structures

Author

Wagner, Harley ; Von Wangenheim, Aldo ; Trevisol-Bittencourt, Paula César ; Von Wangenheim, Christiane Gresse ; Krechel, Dirk

Author_Institution

Univ. Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianapolis, Brazil

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

41

Abstract

Presents a digital anisotropically deformable brain atlas based on the model of the Talairach atlas. The atlas is implemented as a DICOM 3.0-compliant graphic software tool that can be used for teaching and diagnosis support purposes. The tool supports the elastic anisotropic adaptation of the model to the tomographic volume of a particular patient, enabling the identification of the Talairach quadrants and automatically showing the Brodmann areas related to each quadrant. The system is now being evaluated in the scope of a neurological research project

Keywords

biomedical education; brain; computer graphics; elastic deformation; image morphing; medical image processing; medical information systems; spatial data structures; teaching; tomography; visual databases; Brodmann areas; DICOM 3.0-compliant graphic software tool; Talairach atlas; Talairach quadrant identification; diagnosis support; digital anisotropically deformable brain atlas; elastic anisotropic model adaptation; neurological research project; patient tomographic volume; recursive spatial data structures; teaching; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Brain modeling; Computed tomography; Data structures; Deformable models; Graphics; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical diagnostic imaging; Pathology; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2001. CBMS 2001. Proceedings. 14th IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bethesda, MD

ISSN

1063-7125

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1004-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.2001.941694

Filename

941694