A PIPELINE FOR PEDIATRIC NEUROIMAGE PROCESSING
By Leanne Rokos
This week marks our return in-person to the Society for Neuroscience meeting. Over the next few days, we’re giving you a sneak peek of what we’ll be presenting in San Diego.
In today’s sneak peek, I’ll be covering my poster titled “An automated multimodal pipeline for pediatric neuroimaging data to generate robust model inputs for TheVirtualBrain” on Tuesday November 15th at 9-10am (Poster #YY44).
I will also be presenting a demonstration of the pipeline at TheVirtualBrain’s Exhibitor Booth (#3116; Date/Time TBD).
TheVirtualBrain (TVB) is a neuroinformatics platform that is able to create individualized brain network models based on neuroimaging data.
Maybe you have neuroimaging data.
Maybe your neuroimaging data is collected from children.
Maybe you want to use TVB to model brain network dynamics in children.
Look no further than the TVB-UKBiobank pipeline, an automated and open-source multimodal magnetic resonance imaging processing pipeline, that was developed to generate the model inputs required by TVB (Frazier-Logue et al., 2022).
Notable challenges in pediatric neuroimage processing include small brain size and excess head motion. We tested the pipeline’s functionality for processing data from children. The pipeline generates detailed quality control reports to evaluate processing robustness and to evaluate the newly added capability for user-specified, age-specific templates for brain extraction and registration.
In addition to previously tested healthy aging and clinical adult populations, this work extends the pipeline’s scope to support pediatric populations and offers greater accessibility to model brain network dynamics in early development.
Maybe you want to learn more.