A detailed spatiotemporal atlas of the white matter tracts for the fetal brain

C Calixto, M Dorigatti Soldatelli, C Jaimes… - Proceedings of the …, 2025 - pnas.org
This study presents the construction of a comprehensive spatiotemporal atlas of white matter
tracts in the fetal brain for every gestational week between 23 and 36 wk using diffusion MRI …

[HTML][HTML] BOUNTI: Brain vOlumetry and aUtomated parcellatioN for 3D feTal MRI

AU Uus, V Kyriakopoulou, A Makropoulos… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Fetal MRI is widely used for quantitative brain volumetry studies. However, currently, there is
a lack of universally accepted protocols for fetal brain parcellation and segmentation …

CINA: Conditional Implicit Neural Atlas for Spatio-Temporal Representation of Fetal Brains

M Dannecker, V Kyriakopoulou… - … Conference on Medical …, 2024 - Springer
We introduce a conditional implicit neural atlas (CINA) for spatio-temporal atlas generation
from Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) of the neurotypical and pathological fetal brain, that …

In utero diffusion MRI: challenges, advances, and applications

D Christiaens, PJ Slator… - Topics in Magnetic …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
In utero diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides unique opportunities to
noninvasively study the microstructure of tissue during fetal development. A wide range of …

Spatiotemporal tissue maturation of thalamocortical pathways in the human fetal brain

S Wilson, M Pietsch, L Cordero-Grande, D Christiaens… - elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
The development of connectivity between the thalamus and maturing cortex is a
fundamental process in the second half of human gestation, establishing the neural circuits …

Maturational networks of human fetal brain activity reveal emerging connectivity patterns prior to ex-utero exposure

VR Karolis, SP Fitzgibbon, L Cordero-Grande… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
A key feature of the fetal period is the rapid emergence of organised patterns of
spontaneous brain activity. However, characterising this process in utero using functional …

Spatio-temporal atlas of normal fetal craniofacial feature development and CNN-based ocular biometry for motion-corrected fetal MRI

A Uus, J Matthew, I Grigorescu, S Jupp… - Uncertainty for Safe …, 2021 - Springer
Motion-corrected fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely employed in large-scale
fetal brain studies. However, the current processing pipelines and spatio-temporal atlases …

A deep learning approach to segmentation of the develo** cortex in fetal brain MRI with minimal manual labeling

AE Fetit, A Alansary… - … Imaging with Deep …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
We developed an automated system based on deep neural networks for fast and sensitive
3D image segmentation of cortical gray matter from fetal brain MRI. The lack of …

Gradient organisation of functional connectivity within resting state networks is present from 25 weeks gestation in the human fetal brain

JW Moore, S Wilson, M Oldehinkel, L Cordero-Grande… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
During the third trimester of human gestation, the structure and function of the fetal brain is
develo** rapidly, laying the foundation for its connectivity framework across the lifespan …

Weakly Supervised Learning of Cortical Surface Reconstruction from Segmentations

Q Ma, L Li, EC Robinson, B Kainz… - … Conference on Medical …, 2024 - Springer
Existing learning-based cortical surface reconstruction approaches heavily rely on the
supervision of pseudo ground truth (pGT) cortical surfaces for training. Such pGT surfaces …