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The thalamus consists of several histologically and functionally distinct nuclei increasingly implicated in brain pathology and important for treatment, motivating the need for development of fast and accurate thalamic segmentation. The contrast between thalamic nuclei as well as between the thalamus and surrounding tissues is poor in T1 and T2 weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), inhibiting efforts to date to segment the thalamus using standard clinical MRI. Automatic segmentation techniques have been developed to leverage thalamic features better captured by advanced MRI methods, including magnetization prepared rapid acquisition gradient echo (MP-RAGE) , diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and resting state functional MRI (fMRI). Despite operating on fundamentally different image features, these methods claim a high degree of agreement with the Morel stereotactic atlas of the thalamus. However, no comparison has been undertaken to compare the results of these disparate segmentation methods. We have implemented state-of-the-art structural, diffusion, and functional imaging-based thalamus segmentation techniques and used them on a single set of subjects. We present the first systematic qualitative and quantitative comparison of these methods. We found that functional connectivity-based parcellation exhibited a close correspondence with structural parcellation on the basis of qualitative concordance with the Morel thalamic atlas as well as the quantitative measures of Dice scores and volumetric similarity index.
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