Intrinsic Patch-Based Cortical Anatomical Parcellation Using Graph Convolutional Neural Network on Surface Manifold

Zhengwang Wu, Fenqiang Zhao, Jing Xia, Li Wang, Weili Lin, John H. Gilmore, Gang Li, Dinggang Shen

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Abstract

Automatic parcellation of cortical surfaces into anatomically meaningful regions of interest (ROIs) is of great importance in brain analysis. Due to the complex shape of the convoluted cerebral cortex, conventional methods generally require three steps to obtain the parcellations. First, the original cortical surface is iteratively inflated and mapped onto a spherical surface with minimal metric distortion, for providing a simpler shape for analysis. Then, a registration or learning-based labeling method is adopted to parcellate ROIs on the mapped spherical surface. Finally, parcellation labels on the spherical surface are mapped back to the original cortical surface. Despite great success, spherical mapping of the original cortical surface is inherently sensitive to topological noise and cannot deal with the impaired brains that violate spherical topology. To address these issues, in this paper, we propose to directly parcellate the cerebral cortex on the original cortical surface manifold without requiring spherical mapping, by leveraging the strong learning ability of the graph convolutional neural networks. Also, we extend the convolution to the surface manifold using the kernel strategy, which enables us to overcome the notorious shape difference issue (e.g., different vertex number and connections) across different subjects. Our method aims to learn the highly nonlinear mapping between cortical attribute patterns (on local intrinsic surface patches) and parcellation labels. We have validated our method on a normal cortical surface dataset and a synthetic dataset with impaired brains, which shows that our method achieves comparable accuracy to the methods using spherical mapping, and works well on cortical surfaces violating the spherical topology.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2019 - 22nd International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsDinggang Shen, Pew-Thian Yap, Tianming Liu, Terry M. Peters, Ali Khan, Lawrence H. Staib, Caroline Essert, Sean Zhou
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages492-500
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030322472
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 2019 Oct 132019 Oct 17

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11766 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period19/10/1319/10/17

Keywords

  • Cortical surface parcellation
  • Graph CNN

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science(all)
  • Theoretical Computer Science

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