Table 1.
Different characteristic features (e.g., number of subjects, registration procedure involved, type of spatial transformation used, coverage area, cortical detail etc.) used to construct the existing human brain templates
| Feature | Talairach Tournoiix(TT) (1988) |
MNI-305 (1995) |
Colin-27 (1998) |
MM-152 (2001) |
ICBM-452 (2003) |
Korean (2005) |
French (2009) |
Chinese-56 (2010) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of subjects | 1 F-l |
305 M-239, F-66 |
1 M-l |
152 NA |
452 NA |
78 M-49, F-29 |
1 M-1 |
56 M-56 |
| Age (years) | 60 | 23.4 ± 4.1 | NA | NA | NA | 44.6 ± 19.4 | 45 | 24.49 ± 1.76 |
| Image type | 2D | 3D | 3D | 3D | 3D | 3D | 3D | 3D |
| Population specific | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Type of atlas | Non-digital | Digital | Digital | Digital | Digital | Digital | Digital | Digital |
| Registration procedure | Manual (Intra-subject) | Linear (Inter-subject) | Linear & non-Linear (Intra-subject) | Linear & non-Linear (Inter-subject) | Linear & non-Linear (Inter-subject) | Linear & non-Linear (Inter-subject) | Linear & non-Linear (Inter-subject) | Linear & non-Linear (Inter-subject) |
| Spatial transformation | NA | 9-parameter Linear | Affine | 9-parameter Affine | 12-parameter Affine | Affine | Affine | 12-parameter Affine |
| Coverage | Excludes brain stem & cerebellum | Does not fully cover top of head & cerebellum | Full head & cerebellum | Full head & cerebellum | Full head & cerebellum | Full head & cerebellum | Deep brain regions | Full head & cerebellum |
| Cortical detail information | Lack of cortical detail | Lack of cortical detail | Improved cortical details | Lack of cortical detail | Improved cortical detail | Improved cortical detail | Improved cortical detail | Improved cortical detail |
| Contrast between gray and white matter | Less Significant | Significant | Significant | Significant | Significant | Significant | Significant | Significant |
| Size (Length, width & height of brain) | Smaller than other brain templates | Larger than Talairach Tournoux | Same as MNI-305 | Same as MNI-305 | Same as MNI-305 | Height is shorter than IT and MNI-305 but width is same | Voxel size reduced | Length and height are shorter than MNI-152 but width is more |