Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, which is the most common cause of...
Animal Atlases
There are various animal atlases that are available from the BIC in the MINC format....
Augmented Reality
In image-guided surgery the surgeon must map pre-operative patient images from the navigation system to...
Augmented Reality for Brain Tumour Surgery
Augmented reality (AR) visualization in image-guided neurosurgery (IGNS) allows a surgeon to see rendered preoperative...
Augmented Reality in Neurovascular Surgery
In neurovascular surgery, and in particular surgery for arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), the surgeon must map...
Augmented Reality Vessel Visualization
We explored a number of different volume rendering methods for AR visualization of vessel topology...
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a set of neurological disorders characterized by impaired social communication and...
BITE: Brain Images of Tumors for Evaluation database
Overview The goal of this database is to share in vivo medical images of patients...
Brain extraction
Accurate delineation of brain tissue on MRI scan is important step in many image processing pipelines....
Brain Shift
Since the introduction of the first intraoperative frameless stereotactic navigation device, image guided neurosurgery has become...
Cerebellum and its lobules segmentation
The human cerebellum has the highest growth rate of all brain structures during the late fetal...
CerebrA
CerebrA atlas Accurate anatomical atlases are recognized as important tools in brain-imaging research. They are...
Colin 27 Average Brain 1998
Stereotaxic Registration Model, original 1998 version This is a stereotaxic average of 27 T1-weighted MRI...
Colin 27 Average Brain 2008
Colin 27 Average Brain, Stereotaxic Registration Model, high-resolution version 2008 The anatomical phantom is derived...
DAWM and FWML Seperation
Histopathology and MRI studies differentiate between focal white matter lesions (FWML) and diffuse abnormal white...
Epilepsy
In some patients with refractory epilepsy that are candidates for surgery, intracranial EEG is recorded...
HIV Neurodegeneration
HIV enters the brain soon after seroconversion and potentially causes cognitive impairment. Although the incidence of...
ICBM 152 Nonlinear atlases (2009)
A number of unbiased non-linear averages of the MNI152 database have been generated that combines...
Image processing pipelines
Large-scale MRI studies of brain development or disease progression require processing of large amount of...
Infant Atlases 0-4.5 years
We present an unbiased magnetic resonance imaging template brain volume for pediatric data from birth...
Linear ICBM Average Brain (ICBM152) Stereotaxic Registration Model
This is a version of the ICBM Average Brain - an average of 152 T1-weighted...
Medial Temporal Lobe (MTL) Segmentation
Our group has developed multiple accurate segmentation methods during years. Our nonlinear patch-based method with...
MNI Average Brain (305 MRI)
MNI Average Brain (305 MRI) Stereotaxic Registration Model This is a version of the MNI...
MNI ICBM152 non-linear
MNI ICBM 152 non-linear 6th Generation Symmetric Average Brain Stereotaxic Registration Model This is a version...
MNI-FTD Templates
MNI-FTD Templates: Unbiased Average Templates of Frontotemporal Dementia Variants Standard anatomical templates are widely used...
Multi-contrast PD126 and CTRL17 templates
Extending the work from the PD25 template (Xiao et al. 2015, 2017), new population-based multi-contrast...
Multi-contrast PD25 atlas
This set of multi-contrast population-averaged PD brain atlas contains 5 different image contrasts: T1w...
Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease that predominately affects young adults. Inflammatory mechanisms were...
Normal Aging
Over the past several years we have collaborated with several individuals to study normal aging....
Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, after Alzheimer's disease, worldwide. At...
Pediatric atlases (4.5–18.5y)
We present an unbiased standard magnetic resonance imaging template brain volume for pediatric data from...
Schizophrenia
The NIST Lab has collaborated with the Utrecht group headed by Dr. H. Hulshoff Pol for the...
Segmentation
Since manual segmentation techniques are difficult, error-prone and time consuming, accurate and robust automatic segmentation...
Spinal Surgery
Each year more than 20,000 Canadians are treated surgically for lower back pain. Image guided...
Stereotaxic surgery for movement disorders
We have recently developed techniques [1] used to create a lower resolution 3D atlas, based...
Tissue Classification
Accurate differentiation of brain tissue types from MR images is necessary in many neuroscience and clinical...
Ultrasound and Augmented Reality
For intraoperative use, neuronavigation systems must relate the physical location of a patient with the...
Ultrasound-guided spinal navigation
Spinal fusion surgery is a common procedure to treat spinal instability when medication and physical...
VentRa
Lateral ventricles are reliable and sensitive indicators of brain atrophy and disease progression in behavioral...
Visualization
At the NIST we work on a number of different medical image visualization problems, to...
Visualizing Blood Flow
Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are a type of vascular anomaly consisting of large intertwined vascular...
Visualizing Vascular Volumes
Cerebral vascular images obtained through angiography are used by neurosurgeons for diagnosis, surgical planning and...
White Matter Hyperintensities
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) commonly coexist with cerebrovascular disease in the elderly...
