Abstract #2499

Quantitative Morphometry Analysis of the Fetal Brain using Clinical MR Imaging

Meritxell Bach Cuadra¹, Gabriele Bonanno¹, Laurent Guibaud², Stephan Eliez³, Jean-Philippe Thiran¹, Marie Schaer^1,3

¹Signal Processing Laboratories (LTS5), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; ²Universit Claude Bernard Lyon I, France; ³Psychiatry Department, University of Geneva School of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

We present a preliminary quantitative morphometry analysis of the fetal brain using clinical MR imaging. Our segmentation's and reconstruction's pipeline do not use any anatomical prior from atlases, thus our method can potentially answer clinically relevant question such as the true developmental age of the fetus without being biased by its biological age.