To investigate functional brain networks, many graph-theoretical studies have defined nodes in a graph using an anatomical atlas with about a hundred partitions. Although use of anatomical node definition is popular due to its convenience, functional inhomogeneity within each node may lead to bias or systematic errors in the graph analysis. The current study was aimed to show functional inhomog...

PURPOSE Radiotherapy planning requires accurate delineations of the tumor and of the critical structures. Atlas-based segmentation has been shown to be very efficient to automatically delineate brain critical structures. We therefore propose to construct an anatomical atlas of the head and neck region. METHODS AND MATERIALS Due to the high anatomical variability of this region, an atlas built...

We developed a novel brain atlas template to facilitate computational brain studies of Chinese subjects and populations using high quality magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and well-validated image analysis techniques. To explore the ethnicity-based structural brain differences, we used the MRI scans of 35 Chinese male subjects (24.03+/-2.06 years) and compared them to an age-matched cohort of 3...

We study the problem of resource discovery in the Semantic Grid. We show how to solve this problem by utilizing Atlas, a P2P system for the distributed storage and retrieval of RDF(S) data. Atlas is currently under development in project OntoGrid funded by FP6. Atlas is built on top of the distributed hash table Bamboo and supports pull and push querying scenarios. It inherits all the nice feat...

We present a new standard atlas of the human brain based on magnetic resonance images. The atlas was generated using unbiased population registration from high-resolution images obtained by multichannel-coil acquisition at 3T in a group of 24 normal subjects. The final atlas comprises three anatomical channels (T(1)-weighted, early and late spin echo), three diffusion-related channels (fraction...

An assessment of potential groundwater areas in the Ifni basin, located western Anti-Atlas range Morocco, was conducted based on a multicriteria analytical approach that integrated set geomorphological and hydroclimatic factors influencing availability this resource. This involved use geographic information systems (GIS) hierarchical process (AHP) models. Different were classified weighted acco...

A need exists for mapping the protein profiles in the human brain both during normal and disease conditions. Here we studied 800 antibodies generated toward human proteins as part of a Human Protein Atlas program and investigated their suitability for detailed analysis of various levels of a rat brain using immuno-based methods. In this way, the parallel, rather limited analysis of the human br...