Fig. 3.

An illustration of the proposed method for consistent parcellation of longitudinal infant cortical surfaces. All longitudinal cortical surfaces of the same infant (enclosed by the blue dashed circle) are consistently and simultaneously labeled based on: 1) the subject-atlas similarities of their local cortical folding (represented by the surface patches enclosed by small red dashed circles) in a search range (represented by the dark dashed circles on atlas surfaces) for labeling accuracy; 2) the within-subject temporal similarities of local cortical folding for temporal labeling consistency; and 3) the local cortical folding geometry for adaptive spatial labeling smoothness, as will be illustrated in Fig. 4.