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Comprehensive Segmentation of Deep Grey Nuclei From Structural MRI Data

Saranathan, Manojkumar
Cogliandro, Giuseppina
Hicks, Thomas
Patterson, Dianne
Vachha, Behroze
Hader, Asma
Shazeeb, Mohammed Salman
Cacciola, Alberto
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2025-10-01
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There is a lack of tools for comprehensive and complete segmentation of deep grey nuclei using a single software for reproducibility and repeatability. We present a fast, accurate, and robust method for segmentation of deep grey nuclei (thalamic nuclei, basal ganglia, amygdala, claustrum, and red nucleus) from structural T MRI data at conventional field strengths. We leveraged the improved contrast of white-matter-nulled imaging by using the recently proposed Histogram-based Polynomial Synthesis (HIPS) to synthesize white-matter nulled images from standard T and then use a multi-atlas segmentation with joint label fusion to segment deep grey nuclei. The method worked robustly on all field strengths (1.5/3/7T) and Dice coefficients ≥ 0.7 were achieved for all structures compared against manual segmentation ground truth. In conclusion, this method facilitates careful investigation of deep grey nuclei by enabling the use of conventional T data from large public databases, which has not been possible hitherto due to lack of robust reproducible segmentation tools.

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Saranathan M, Cogliandro G, Hicks T, Patterson D, Vachha B, Hader A, Shazeeb MS, Cacciola A. Comprehensive Segmentation of Deep Grey Nuclei From Structural MRI Data. Hum Brain Mapp. 2025 Oct 1;46(14):e70350. doi: 10.1002/hbm.70350. PMID: 40985796; PMCID: PMC12455863.

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10.1002/hbm.70350
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This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. © 2025 The Author(s). Human Brain Mapping published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.