INSTAR (Infant Joint Segmentation and Registration) provides a solution of accurate segmentation and registration for infant brain images, especially from birth to 1 year old, which plays an important role in many early brain development studies.
Specifically, infant brain image segmentation or registration often encounters much more challenges than segmentation/registration of adult brain images due to the dynamic appearance change with rapid brain development. Therefore, in this software package, we included out latest joint segmentation and registration framework [1] to tackle the challenges.
This software package was developed in the IDEA group at UNC-Chapel Hill (http://bric.unc.edu/ideagroup).
[1] P. Dong, L. Wang, W. Lin, D. Shen, and G. Wu, "Scalable joint segmentation and registration framework for infant brain images," Neurocomputing, In Press, 2016