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Human beings are highly diverse. The ability to statistically and visually compare brain-image data from multiple individuals is essential for the understanding of normal variability within a particular population as well as for the diVerentiation of normal populations from diseased. This chapter introduces the use of brain atlases to describe specific subpopulations, measure their variability, and characterize the structural diVerences between them. We describe extensions to the atlas concept to enable comparisons with other data, to act as a framework for other studies, and to provide database-like features. Utilizing data from structural MRIs, we have built atlases with defined coordinate systems, creating a framework to map data from functional, histological, and other studies of the same population. This paper describes the basic approach to the calculation of atlases and the underlying mathematical constructs that enable it. We include examples of atlas results from various normal and diseased populations. ## I. Introduction The concept of atlases in neuroscience is an old one (see Toga and Mazziotta, 1996 for a historical survey). Cartographic approaches have been used for c

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Author

Arthur W. Toga; Paul M. Thompson

Publisher

Academic Press, Elsevier

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780123668684

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Science, Technology