Yara Asi, David Mills, P Gregg Greenough, Dennis Kunichoff, Saira Khan, Jamon Van Den Hoek, Corey Scher, Saleem Halabi, Sawsan Abdulrahim, Nadine Bahour, A Kayum Ahmed, Bram Wispelwey, Weeam Hammoudeh
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accurate processing analysis nonhuman primate nhp brain magnetic resonance imaging mri serves indispensable role understanding brain evolution development aging diseases despite accumulation diverse nhp brain mri datasets various developmental stages various imaging sitesscanners existing computational tools designed human mri typically perform poor nhp data due huge differences brain sizes morphologies imaging appearances across species sites ages highlighting imperative nhpspecialized mri processing tools address issue paper present robust generic fully automated computational pipeline called nonhuman primates brain extraction segmentation toolbox nbest whose main functionality includes brain extraction noncerebrum removal tissue segmentation building cuttingedge deep learning techniques employing lifelong learning flexibly integrate data diverse nhp populations innovatively constructing 3d unext architecture nbest well handle structural nhp brain mr images multispecies multisite multidevelopmentalstage neonates elderly extensively validated nbest based knowledge largest assemblage dataset nhp brain studies encompassing 1469 scans 11 species eg rhesus macaques cynomolgus macaques chimpanzees marmosets squirrel monkeys etc 23 independent datasets compared alternative tools nbest outperforms precision applicability robustness comprehensiveness generalizability greatly benefiting downstream longitudinal crosssectional crossspecies quantitative analyses made nbest opensource toolbox httpsgithubcomtaozhong11nbest committed continual refinement lifelong learning incoming data greatly contribute research field