Researchers have introduced CINeMA, a novel framework for creating high-resolution, spatio-temporal, multimodal brain atlases suitable for low-data settings.
CINeMA operates in latent space, avoiding the need for compute-intensive image registration and reducing atlas construction times from days to minutes.
The framework allows flexible conditioning on anatomical features like gestational age, birth age, and brain pathologies such as ventriculomegaly and agenesis of the corpus callosum.
CINeMA supports tasks like tissue segmentation, age prediction, synthetic data creation, and anatomically informed data augmentation.
The framework surpasses existing methods in accuracy, efficiency, and versatility, making it a valuable tool for advancing brain research.
The code and atlases for CINeMA are available at https://github.com/m-dannecker/CINeMA.