Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2001. CBMS 2001. Proceedings. 14th IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Bethesda, MD
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1004-3
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.2001.941694
