AUTHOR=Mai Jürgen K. , Majtanik Milan TITLE=Toward a Common Terminology for the Thalamus JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neuroanatomy VOLUME=12 YEAR=2019 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroanatomy/articles/10.3389/fnana.2018.00114 DOI=10.3389/fnana.2018.00114 ISSN=1662-5129 ABSTRACT=
The wealth of competing parcellations with limited cross-correspondence between atlases of the human thalamus raises problems in a time when the usefulness of neuroanatomical methods is increasingly appreciated for modern computational analyses of the brain. An unequivocal nomenclature is, however, compulsory for the understanding of the organization of the thalamus. This situation cannot be improved by renewed discussion but with implementation of neuroinformatics tools. We adopted a new volumetric approach to characterize the significant subdivisions and determined the relationships between the parcellation schemes of nine most influential atlases of the human thalamus. The volumes of each atlas were 3d-reconstructed and spatially registered to the standard MNI/ICBM2009b reference volume of the Human Brain Atlas in the MNI (Montreal Neurological Institute) space (Mai and Majtanik,