Table 3.

The mean and standard deviation of Dice ratios of the combined WM and GM for inter‐subject registration, by aligning 2‐week‐old, 3‐, 6‐, and 9‐month‐old images to the 12‐month‐old image via different methods. The best Dice ratio for each column is shown in bold

Method	2‐Week to 12‐month	3‐Month to 12‐month	6‐Month to 12‐month	9‐Month to 12‐month
CC‐based	0.643 ± 0.030	0.618 ± 0.025	0.684 ± 0.024	0.722 ± 0.020
MI‐based	0.614 ± 0.025	0.602 ± 0.022	0.675 ± 0.030	0.717 ± 0.022
3D‐HAMMER	0.662 ± 0.023	0.642 ± 0.026	0.688 ± 0.025	0.715 ± 0.023
SR‐based	0.673 ± 0.016	0.665 ± 0.017	0.695 ± 0.015	0.718 ± 0.018
Our proposed method 1	0.623 ± 0.029	0.633 ± 0.026	0.661 ± 0.050	0.676 ± 0.039
Our proposed method 2	0.692 ± 0.035	0.684 ± 0.037	0.726 ± 0.069	0.766 ± 0.033