Exploring early human brain development with structural and physiological neuroimaging

L Vasung, EA Turk, SL Ferradal, J Sutin, JN Stout… - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
Early brain development, from the embryonic period to infancy, is characterized by rapid
structural and functional changes. These changes can be studied using structural and …

Development of cortical folds in the human brain: An attempt to review biological hypotheses, early neuroimaging investigations and functional correlates

H de Vareilles, D Rivière, JF Mangin… - Developmental cognitive …, 2023 - Elsevier
The folding of the human brain mostly takes place in utero, making it challenging to study.
After a few pioneer studies looking into it in post-mortem foetal specimen, modern …

A deep attentive convolutional neural network for automatic cortical plate segmentation in fetal MRI

H Dou, D Karimi, CK Rollins, CM Ortinau… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fetal cortical plate segmentation is essential in quantitative analysis of fetal brain maturation
and cortical folding. Manual segmentation of the cortical plate, or manual refinement of …

Mechanical hierarchy in the formation and modulation of cortical folding patterns

P Chavoshnejad, L Vallejo, S Zhang, Y Guo, W Dai… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The important mechanical parameters and their hierarchy in the growth and folding of the
human brain have not been thoroughly understood. In this study, we developed a multiscale …

Sulcal pits and patterns in developing human brains

K Im, PE Grant - NeuroImage, 2019 - Elsevier
Spatial distribution and specific geometric and topological patterning of early sulcal folds
have been hypothesized to be under stronger genetic control and are more associated with …

Early-emerging sulcal patterns are atypical in fetuses with congenital heart disease

CM Ortinau, CK Rollins, A Gholipour, HJ Yun… - Cerebral …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Fetuses with congenital heart disease (CHD) have third trimester alterations in cortical
development on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, the intersulcal …

[HTML][HTML] Quantification of sulcal emergence timing and its variability in early fetal life: hemispheric asymmetry and sex difference

HJ Yun, HJ Lee, JY Lee, T Tarui, CK Rollins… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Human fetal brains show regionally different temporal patterns of sulcal emergence
following a regular timeline, which may be associated with spatiotemporal patterns of gene …

Association between placental oxygen transport and fetal brain cortical development: a study in monochorionic diamniotic twins

E Abaci Turk, HJ Yun, HA Feldman, JY Lee… - Cerebral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Normal cortical growth and the resulting folding patterns are crucial for normal brain
function. Although cortical development is largely influenced by genetic factors …

Fetal cortical plate segmentation using fully convolutional networks with multiple plane aggregation

J Hong, HJ Yun, G Park, S Kim, CT Laurentys… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has the potential to advance our understanding of
human brain development by providing quantitative information of cortical plate (CP) …

Fetal brain biometric measurements on 3D super-resolution reconstructed T2-weighted MRI: an intra-and inter-observer agreement study

M Khawam, P De Dumast, P Deman, H Kebiri… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We present the comparison of two-dimensional (2D) fetal brain biometry on magnetic
resonance (MR) images using orthogonal 2D T2-weighted sequences (T2WSs) vs. one 3D …