The Developing Human Connectome Project: A Fast Deep Learning-based Pipeline for Neonatal Cortical Surface Reconstruction

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Autores principales: Ma, Qiang, Liang, Kaili, Li, Liu, Masui, Saga, Guo, Yourong, Nosarti, Chiara, Robinson, Emma C., Kainz, Bernhard, Rueckert, Daniel
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author Ma, Qiang
Liang, Kaili
Li, Liu
Masui, Saga
Guo, Yourong
Nosarti, Chiara
Robinson, Emma C.
Kainz, Bernhard
Rueckert, Daniel
author_facet Ma, Qiang
Liang, Kaili
Li, Liu
Masui, Saga
Guo, Yourong
Nosarti, Chiara
Robinson, Emma C.
Kainz, Bernhard
Rueckert, Daniel
contents The Developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP) aims to explore developmental patterns of the human brain during the perinatal period. An automated processing pipeline has been developed to extract high-quality cortical surfaces from structural brain magnetic resonance (MR) images for the dHCP neonatal dataset. However, the current implementation of the pipeline requires more than 6.5 hours to process a single MRI scan, making it expensive for large-scale neuroimaging studies. In this paper, we propose a fast deep learning (DL) based pipeline for dHCP neonatal cortical surface reconstruction, incorporating DL-based brain extraction, cortical surface reconstruction and spherical projection, as well as GPU-accelerated cortical surface inflation and cortical feature estimation. We introduce a multiscale deformation network to learn diffeomorphic cortical surface reconstruction end-to-end from T2-weighted brain MRI. A fast unsupervised spherical mapping approach is integrated to minimize metric distortions between cortical surfaces and projected spheres. The entire workflow of our DL-based dHCP pipeline completes within only 24 seconds on a modern GPU, which is nearly 1000 times faster than the original dHCP pipeline. The qualitative assessment demonstrates that for 82.5% of the test samples, the cortical surfaces reconstructed by our DL-based pipeline achieve superior (54.2%) or equal (28.3%) surface quality compared to the original dHCP pipeline.
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spellingShingle The Developing Human Connectome Project: A Fast Deep Learning-based Pipeline for Neonatal Cortical Surface Reconstruction
Ma, Qiang
Liang, Kaili
Li, Liu
Masui, Saga
Guo, Yourong
Nosarti, Chiara
Robinson, Emma C.
Kainz, Bernhard
Rueckert, Daniel
Image and Video Processing
The Developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP) aims to explore developmental patterns of the human brain during the perinatal period. An automated processing pipeline has been developed to extract high-quality cortical surfaces from structural brain magnetic resonance (MR) images for the dHCP neonatal dataset. However, the current implementation of the pipeline requires more than 6.5 hours to process a single MRI scan, making it expensive for large-scale neuroimaging studies. In this paper, we propose a fast deep learning (DL) based pipeline for dHCP neonatal cortical surface reconstruction, incorporating DL-based brain extraction, cortical surface reconstruction and spherical projection, as well as GPU-accelerated cortical surface inflation and cortical feature estimation. We introduce a multiscale deformation network to learn diffeomorphic cortical surface reconstruction end-to-end from T2-weighted brain MRI. A fast unsupervised spherical mapping approach is integrated to minimize metric distortions between cortical surfaces and projected spheres. The entire workflow of our DL-based dHCP pipeline completes within only 24 seconds on a modern GPU, which is nearly 1000 times faster than the original dHCP pipeline. The qualitative assessment demonstrates that for 82.5% of the test samples, the cortical surfaces reconstructed by our DL-based pipeline achieve superior (54.2%) or equal (28.3%) surface quality compared to the original dHCP pipeline.
title The Developing Human Connectome Project: A Fast Deep Learning-based Pipeline for Neonatal Cortical Surface Reconstruction
topic Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08783