Fig. 2. An overview of the proposed framework for learning dynamic cortical surface growth (training stage).
We estimate a smooth temporal trajectory for each of the baseline cortical shapes in the training dataset. Here we overlay the ground truth shapes (transparent gray) with the estimated ones. A spatiotemporal atlas is built at the most commonly shared acquisition timepoints in the training subjects. We also include the estimated cortical surface if it is ±1–month distant from the ground truth in the atlas building process.