Dictionary

Acronym Name Definition
SABRE Semi-automatic Brain Region Extraction A comprehensive semi-automatic pipeline that yields an individualized volumetric profile of regionalized tissue and lesion classes (see Dade et al., 2004)
LE Lesion Explorer Semi-automatic lesion analysis using PD/T2 (see Ramirez et al., 2011)
FLEX Fluzzy Lesion EXtractor Semi-automatic lesion analysis using FLAIR (see Gibson et al., 2010)
ST-TIV Supra-Tentorial Total Intracranial Vault Sum of all classes (NAWM+NAGM+vCSF+sCSF+SH+BH)
TIV-E Total Intracranial Vault Extraction Semi-automatic skull stripping process that provides an accurate measure of all sub-arachnoid parenchyma and CSF
  Parenchyma NAWM+NAGM+SH
BPF Brain Parenchyma Fraction Parenchyma/ST-TIV

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SABRE regions

Region Lobe Acronym Name
3 Left Frontal LSF L Superior Frontal
4 Left Frontal LMF L Middle Frontal
5 Left Frontal LIF L Inferior Frontal
6 Left Frontal LMIF L Medial Inferior Frontal
7 Left Parietal LSP L Superior Parietal
8 Left Parietal LIP L Inferior Parietal
9 Left Occipital LO L Occipital
10 Left Temporal LAT L Anterior Temporal
11 Left Temporal LPT L Posterior Temporal
12 Left BG/Thal LABGT L Anterior BG/Thal
13 Left BG/Thal LPBGT L Posterior BG/Thal
14 Left Frontal LMSF L Medial Superior Frontal
15 Left Frontal LMMF L Medial Middle Frontal
16 Right Frontal RSF R Superior Frontal
17 Right Frontal RMF R Middle Frontal
18 Right Frontal RIF R Inferior Frontal
19 Right Frontal RMIF R Medial Inferior Frontal
20 Right Parietal RSP R Superior Parietal
21 Right Parietal RIP R Inferior Parietal
22 Right Occipital RO R Occipital
23 Right Temporal RAT R Anterior Temporal
24 Right Temporal RPT R Posterior Temporal
25 Right BG/Thal RABGT R Anterior BG/Thal
26 Right BG/Thal RPBG TR Posterior BG/Thal
27 Right Frontal RMSF R Medial Superior Frontal
28 Right Frontal RMMF R Medial Middle Frontal

Tissue classes

Label Acronym Name
3 NAWM Normal Appearing White Matter
4 NAGM Normal Appearing Grey Matter
5 sCSF sulcal CerebroSpinal Fluid
7 vCSF ventricular CerebroSpinal Fluid

Lesion classes

Label Acronym Name
1 dwSH deep white Subcortical Hyperintensities
2 dwBH deep white Black Holes
3 pvSH periventricular Subcortical Hyperintensities
4 pvBH periventricular Black Holes

Landmarking

2D SABRE landmarking

Acronym Definition
AC Anterior Commissure
PC Posterior Commissure
PE Posterior Edge
CA Central canal
M Mid-sagittal plane
LPRON Left PRe-Occipital Notch
RPRON Right PRe-Occipital Notch
RSC Right Superior Central sulcus
ROP Right Occipito-Parietal sulcus
LSC Left Superior Central sulcus
LOP Left Occipito-Parietal sulcus

3D SABRE landmarking

Acronym Definition
LSF Left Sylvian Fissure
LC Left Central sulcus
RSF Right Sylvian Fissure
RC Right Central sulcus

File names

Filename Description
{session}_T1 T1 MRI in native space
{session}_PD PD MRI in native space
{session}_T2 T2 MRI in native space
{session}_FL FLAIR MRI in native space
{session}_PD_inT1_IHCpre PD MRI coregistered and resliced to T1 acquisition space and corrected for inhomogeneity using N4 to create TIVauto mask (intermediate file)
{session}_T2_inT1_IHCpre T2 MRI coregistered and resliced to T1 acquisition space and corrected for inhomogeneity using N4 to create TIVauto mask (intermediate file)
{session}_FL_inT1_IHCpre FLAIR MRI coregistered and resliced to T1 acquisition space and corrected for inhomogeneity using N4 to create TIVauto mask (intermediate file)
{session}_PD_inT1_IHC PD MRI in T1 space and corrected for inhomogeneity using N4
{session}_T2_inT1_IHC T2 MRI in T1 space and corrected for inhomogeneity using N4
{session}_FL_inT1_IHC FLAIR MRI in T1 space and corrected for inhomogeneity using N4
{session}_TIVauto Total Intracranial Vault (TIV-E) mask
{session}_TIVedit Total Intracranial Vault (TIV-E) mask with manual intervention
{session}_T1_IHCpre_iso Isotropic T1
{session}_T1_IHCpre_toACPC.mat T1-to-ACPC rotation matrix
{session}_T1_to_ACPC.air T1-to-ACPC air file
{session}_ACPC_to_T1.air ACPC-to-T1 air file
{session}_T1_IHC T1 MRI with TIVedit mask N4 inhomogeneity correction
{session}_T1_IHC_TIV Final inhomogeneity corrected T1 MRI with skull and non-brain tissue masked out using {session}_TIVedit
{session}_seg Tissue segmentation in T1 acquisition space
{session}_seg_vcsf Tissue segmentation with ventricles manually reassigned
{session}_seg_vcsf_st Tissue segmentation with ventricles manually reassigned and subtentorial tissue removed leaving only TIV-supratentorial (st) voxels
{session}_T1_IHC_inACPC T1 MRI aligned to the plane defined by the anterior and posterior commissure and resliced to isotropic voxels
{session}_T1_IHC_erode_inACPC 3D eroded T1 MRI in ACPC space
{session}_T1_IHC_erode 3D eroded T1 MRI in T1 native space
{session}_LEauto Automatically generated LE lesion mask file
{session}_LEjux Automatically generated LE lesion mask file (greater false positive rate), useful to inform decisions about juxtacortical or missed lesions
{session}_LEedit LE lesion mask after manual intervention / quality check
{session}_FLEXauto Automatically generated FLEX lesion mask file
{session}_FLEXedit FLEX lesion mask after manual intervention / quality check
{session}_T1_IHC_inACPC_lobgrid.txt 2D landmarking grid file
{session}_T1_IHC_erode_inACPC_lobtrace.obj 3D landmarking file
{session}_T1_IHC_inACPC_parcelgrid.txt 2D landmarking grid file after transformation
{session}_T1_IHC_erode_inACPC_parcel.obj 3D landmarking file after transformation
{session}_SABREparcel_inACPC SABRE parcellation in ACPC space
{session}_SABREparcel SABRE parcellation in T1 native space
{session}_lesions FLEX and LE output; includes four lesion classes (pvSH, pvBH, dwSH, dwBH)
{session}_SABREseg Tissue class segmentation integrated with lesions

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