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Main Authors: Bagheri, Mahdi, Velasco-Annis, Clemente, Wang, Jian, Faghihpirayesh, Razieh, Khan, Shadab, Calixto, Camilo, Jaimes, Camilo, Vasung, Lana, Ouaalam, Abdelhakim, Afacan, Onur, Warfield, Simon K., Rollins, Caitlin K., Gholipour, Ali
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15034
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author Bagheri, Mahdi
Velasco-Annis, Clemente
Wang, Jian
Faghihpirayesh, Razieh
Khan, Shadab
Calixto, Camilo
Jaimes, Camilo
Vasung, Lana
Ouaalam, Abdelhakim
Afacan, Onur
Warfield, Simon K.
Rollins, Caitlin K.
Gholipour, Ali
author_facet Bagheri, Mahdi
Velasco-Annis, Clemente
Wang, Jian
Faghihpirayesh, Razieh
Khan, Shadab
Calixto, Camilo
Jaimes, Camilo
Vasung, Lana
Ouaalam, Abdelhakim
Afacan, Onur
Warfield, Simon K.
Rollins, Caitlin K.
Gholipour, Ali
contents Characterizing in-utero brain development is essential for understanding typical and atypical neurodevelopment. Building on prior spatiotemporal fetal brain MRI atlases, we present the CRL-2025 fetal brain atlas, a spatiotemporal (4D) atlas of the developing fetal brain between 21 and 37 gestational weeks. This atlas is constructed from MRI scans of 159 fetuses with typically developing brains using a diffeomorphic deformable registration framework integrated with kernel regression on age. CRL-2025 uniquely includes detailed tissue segmentations, transient white matter compartments, and parcellation into 126 anatomical regions. It offers significantly enhanced anatomical details over the CRL-2017 atlas and is presented along with a re-release of the CRL diffusion MRI atlas featuring newly created tissue segmentation and labels. We release de-identified, processed subject-level fetal MRI datasets used to generate CRL-2025, providing input-output transparency and reproducibility. We also provide FetalSEG, a deep learning-based multiclass segmentation tool to facilitate automatic fetal brain MRI segmentation. The CRL-2025 atlas and its tools enable scalable fetal brain MRI segmentation, analysis, and neurodevelopmental research for the broader community.
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spellingShingle An MRI Atlas of the Human Fetal Brain: Reference and Segmentation Tools for Fetal Brain MRI Analysis
Bagheri, Mahdi
Velasco-Annis, Clemente
Wang, Jian
Faghihpirayesh, Razieh
Khan, Shadab
Calixto, Camilo
Jaimes, Camilo
Vasung, Lana
Ouaalam, Abdelhakim
Afacan, Onur
Warfield, Simon K.
Rollins, Caitlin K.
Gholipour, Ali
Quantitative Methods
Characterizing in-utero brain development is essential for understanding typical and atypical neurodevelopment. Building on prior spatiotemporal fetal brain MRI atlases, we present the CRL-2025 fetal brain atlas, a spatiotemporal (4D) atlas of the developing fetal brain between 21 and 37 gestational weeks. This atlas is constructed from MRI scans of 159 fetuses with typically developing brains using a diffeomorphic deformable registration framework integrated with kernel regression on age. CRL-2025 uniquely includes detailed tissue segmentations, transient white matter compartments, and parcellation into 126 anatomical regions. It offers significantly enhanced anatomical details over the CRL-2017 atlas and is presented along with a re-release of the CRL diffusion MRI atlas featuring newly created tissue segmentation and labels. We release de-identified, processed subject-level fetal MRI datasets used to generate CRL-2025, providing input-output transparency and reproducibility. We also provide FetalSEG, a deep learning-based multiclass segmentation tool to facilitate automatic fetal brain MRI segmentation. The CRL-2025 atlas and its tools enable scalable fetal brain MRI segmentation, analysis, and neurodevelopmental research for the broader community.
title An MRI Atlas of the Human Fetal Brain: Reference and Segmentation Tools for Fetal Brain MRI Analysis
topic Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15034