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A cross-validated cytoarchitectonic atlas of the human ventral visual stream

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Rosenke, Mona, Weiner, Kevin S., Barnett, Michael A., Zilles, Karl, Amunts, Katrin, Goebel, Rainer, Grill-Spector, Kalanit·2018·NeuroImage

Abstract

The human ventral visual stream consists of several areas that are considered processing stages essential for perception and recognition. A fundamental microanatomical feature differentiating areas is cytoarchitecture, which refers to the distribution, size, and density of cells across cortical layers. Because cytoarchitectonic structure is measured in 20-micron-thick histological slices of postmortem tissue, it is difficult to assess (a) how anatomically consistent these areas are across brains and (b) how they relate to brain parcellations obtained with prevalent neuroimaging methods, acquired at the millimeter and centimeter scale. Therefore, the goal of this study was to (a) generate a cross-validated cytoarchitectonic atlas of the human ventral visual stream on a whole brain template that is commonly used in neuroimaging studies and (b) to compare this atlas to a recently published retinotopic parcellation of visual cortex (Wang et al., 2014). To achieve this goal, we generated an atlas of eight cytoarchitectonic areas: four areas in the occipital lobe (hOc1-hOc4v) and four in the fusiform gyrus (FG1-FG4), then we tested how the different alignment techniques affect the accuracy of the resulting atlas. Results show that both cortex-based alignment (CBA) and nonlinear volumetric alignment (NVA) generate an atlas with better cross-validation performance than affine volumetric alignment (AVA). Additionally, CBA outperformed NVA in 6/8 of the cytoarchitectonic areas. Finally, the comparison of the cytoarchitectonic atlas to a retinotopic atlas shows a clear correspondence between cytoarchitectonic and retinotopic areas in the ventral visual stream. The successful performance of CBA suggests a coupling between cytoarchitectonic areas and macroanatomical landmarks in the human ventral visual stream, and furthermore, that this coupling can be utilized for generating an accurate group atlas. In addition, the coupling between cytoarchitecture and retinotopy highlights the potential use of this atlas in understanding how anatomical features contribute to brain function. We make this cytoarchitectonic atlas freely available in both BrainVoyager and FreeSurfer formats (http://vpnl.stanford.edu/vcAtlas). The availability of this atlas will enable future studies to link cytoarchitectonic organization to other parcellations of the human ventral visual stream with potential to advance the understanding of this pathway in typical and atypical populations.

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Authors
Rosenke, M., Weiner, K. S., Barnett, M. A., Zilles, K., Amunts, K., Goebel, R., & Grill-Spector, K.
Affiliations
  • Stanford University (US)
  • Forschungszentrum Jülich (DE)
  • Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NL)
Corresponding author
Rosenke, Mona
Venue
NeuroImage
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-04
Volume
170
Pages
257-270
ISSN
1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2588870173
Cited by
97
References
97
Citations by year
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FWCI
5.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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Funders
Seventh Framework Programme
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Keywords
ventral stream, cytoarchitecture, visual cortex, fusiform gyrus, brain parcellation, cross-validation, occipital lobe
MeSH terms
Adult, Atlases as Topic, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Occipital Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Visual Perception, Neuroimaging

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