Construction of a whole-brain segmentation pipeline for 0.35T neonatal MRI
Sun, Z.; Huang, J.; Zuo, X.-N.; He, H.; Yu, G.
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Background: Whole-brain segmentation of neonatal low-field MRI is needed for regional volumetric analysis, but established segmentation systems are designed around different field strengths, contrasts, and age ranges. Methods: We first applied complete end-to-end pipelines, including FreeSurfer, FSL-based processing, Infant FreeSurfer, FastSurfer, BrainSuite, SPM12/CAT12, iBEAT v2, the dHCP structural pipeline, and M-CRIB-S, directly to 0.35T neonatal T2-weighted images. Because those systems did not produce a complete 47-region output, we next tested released end-to-end AI segmentation models, including SynthSeg, FastSurfer, FastSurferVINN, and QuickNAT. These were highly sensitive to input format, contrast, voxel geometry, and the high-field training domain. We then decomposed the task into skull stripping, registration, super-resolution, atlas propagation, and tissue refinement and tested the available components individually. Results: No complete end-to-end pipeline or released AI model delivered a usable 47-region segmentation in direct application. Stage-wise testing showed that preprocessing, reconstruction, registration, atlas propagation, and expectation-maximization each solved only part of the problem. Their final assembly produced complete 47-region outputs across the neonatal cohort. Conclusions: Direct application of established pipelines was insufficient for 0.35T neonatal T2-weighted MRI. A stage-wise combination of compatible components provided the workable solution.
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