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LCN Cortical Lobes Dataset

The LCN-CortLobes dataset is a collection of manually-inspected cortical lobe labels created from FreeSurfer-processing the T1w MR images of 35 subjects, ages 64 - 96, originating from the ADNI and OASIS datasets. The set is intended to supplement the Mindboggle-101 dataset of cortical labels Klien and Tourville, 2012, which lack image data of subjects over the age of 61, and lack image data acquired on GE scanners. Unlike the Mindboggle set, only the cortical lobes (frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital) have been manually inspected. The lobe labels are composed from the freesurfer-generated cortical regions, following the DKT labeling protocol, as described in the appendix of the Klein and Tourville paper. The DKT cortical regions in the LCN-CortLobes dataset have not been manually inspected.

The set is freely available for download (see Data Download below). All image-processing and visual inspection efforts were conducted at the Laboratory for Computational Neuroimaging (LCN).

Methods

Data

To address two shortcomings in the Mindboggle dataset, images from publicly available datasets were identified following this criteria:

34 subjects were identified in the ADNI dataset, and 1 subject from the OASIS. The selected T1-weighted images were free of image artifacts. The demographic and scanner information is shown in the table below (included in the dataset distribution). Note that several subjects were diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and late-stage MCI (LMCI). The remaining were cognitively normal (CN).

subject_id

age

sex

manufacturer

field_strength

diagnosis

source

002_S_0295_13722

84.9041

M

GE

1.5

CN

ADNI

002_S_0413_14437

76.3863

F

GE

1.5

CN

ADNI

002_S_0685_18211

89.737

F

GE

1.5

CN

ADNI

002_S_0685_MR1

93

F

GE

1.5

CN

ADNI

002_S_0782_20519

81.7068

M

GE

1.5

MCI

ADNI

002_S_0816_49010

71.4849

M

GE

1.5

AD

ADNI

002_S_0954_108600

71.0795

F

GE

1.5

MCI

ADNI

003_S_0907_MR1

95

F

Siemens

1.5

CN

ADNI

003_S_1074_MR1

91

F

Siemens

1.5

MCI

ADNI

005_S_0221_11604

67.5315

M

GE

1.5

AD

ADNI

005_S_0222_11299

85.9918

M

GE

1.5

MCI

ADNI

005_S_0602_66117

72.0685

M

GE

3

CN

ADNI

005_S_1341_43188

71.6521

F

GE

1.5

AD

ADNI

006_S_0322_17197

65.6658

M

GE

1.5

MCI

ADNI

006_S_6441_MR1

89

M

Philips

3

MCI

ADNI

007_S_0101_9602

73.6712

M

GE

1.5

LMCI

ADNI

007_S_0128_10007

64.1699

F

GE

1.5

MCI

ADNI

009_S_0842_24339

73.7315

M

GE

1.5

CN

ADNI

009_S_0862_25128

73.5041

F

GE

1.5

CN

ADNI

009_S_1030_28514

67.5507

M

GE

1.5

LMCI

ADNI

029_S_1073_30359

65.7699

F

GE

1.5

MCI

ADNI

032_S_6293_MR1

88

F

Siemens

3

CN

ADNI

094_S_1293_98699

78.2466

M

GE

3

MCI

ADNI

098_S_0172_11398

70.6904

F

GE

1.5

CN

ADNI

126_S_0606_37834

69.1397

F

GE

3

AD

ADNI

126_S_0784_25775

76.0055

F

GE

1.5

AD

ADNI

127_S_0259_11888

70.663

M

GE

1.5

CN

ADNI

127_S_0260_28530

79.3945

F

GE

3

CN

ADNI

127_S_0393_30421

86.8466

F

GE

3

MCI

ADNI

127_S_0754_23787

67.7178

F

GE

1.5

AD

ADNI

127_S_0844_29229

85.4603

F

GE

3

AD

ADNI

131_S_0384_14252

79.9616

M

GE

3

LMCI

ADNI

131_S_1389_78461

76.8192

M

GE

3

LMCI

ADNI

133_S_0525_16133

70.1425

F

GE

1.5

CN

ADNI

OAS1_0278_MR1

96

F

Siemens

1.5

HC

OASIS

Processing

The standard processing stream ("recon-all -all") of FreeSurfer v7.1.0 was used to create subcortical and cortical segmentations and parcellations. All images completed processing without errors. FreeSurfer automatically creates cortical parcellations following the DKT labeling protocol (described in the appendix of the Klein and Tourville paper). The FreeSurfer utility "mri_annotation2label --lobesStrict ?h.DKTlobes.annot --annotation ?h.aparc.DKTatlas.annot" was used to create the cortical lobe surface label files (l/rh.DKTlobes.annot). "mri_annotation2label --lobesStrict" implements the region-to-lobe mapping described in the Appendix of this publication. See also CorticalParcellation.

Inspection

Bruce Fischl (BF), Ph.D., Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School, Neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital, conducted a visual inspection of image snapshots of the cortical lobe labels. Inspection involved verifying the cortical lobe boundaries created by the process described in Klein and Tourville. For each subject, and for each hemisphere, a snapshot of the lateral and medial surfaces, both 'pial' and 'inflated' surfaces, were generated by the FreeSurfer utility "freeview". An example of the set of snapshots generated for each subject is shown below. The frontal lobe is red, the temporal lobe is blue, the parietal lobe is green and the occipital lobe is brown. Note: the insula is yellow and cingulate is purple.

lh.lateral.pial.OAS1_0278_MR1.lobes.jpg

rh.lateral.pial.OAS1_0278_MR1.lobes.jpg

lh.medial.pial.OAS1_0278_MR1.lobes.jpg

rh.medial.pial.OAS1_0278_MR1.lobes.jpg

lh.lateral.OAS1_0278_MR1.lobes.jpg

rh.lateral.OAS1_0278_MR1.lobes.jpg

lh.medial.OAS1_0278_MR1.lobes.jpg

rh.medial.OAS1_0278_MR1.lobes.jpg

Results

The visual inspections conducted by BF of the cortical lobe snapshots found no discernable problems with the lobe labels (as stored in the files l/r.DKTlobes.annot) in the 35 subjects.

Data Download

Click this link to download the tarball: LCN-CortLobes.tgz

Uncompress it with the command 'tar zxvf LCN-CortLobes.tgz'.

The set includes the following files:

Conflict of Interest Statement

BF has a financial interest in CorticoMetrics, a company whose medical pursuits focus on brain imaging and measurement technologies. BF's interests were reviewed and are managed by Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners HealthCare in accordance with their conflict of interest policies.

Contributions

Nick Schmansky (NS) of CorticoMetrics LLC originated the idea for the creation of this dataset, as a means to fulfill FDA 510(K) software validation requirements. NS identified and collected the image set and provided the data to engineers at the Laboratory for Computational Neuroimaging (BF is the Lab Director), where the data was processed by FreeSurfer and inspected by BF. NS created this wiki page, and BF contributed to its contents.

FreeSurferWiki/LCN-CortLobes (last edited 2020-09-23 10:44:50 by NickSchmansky)