Digital templates and brain atlas dataset for the mouse lemur primate

• DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.10.067
• Publication Date: 2018-10-25T03:25:41Z
• Authors: Nachiket A. Nadkarni; Salma Bougacha; Clément Garin; Marc Dhenain; Jean-Luc Picq
• Keywords: Science (General); Comparative anatomy; Template; [SDV.NEU.NB]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Neurobiology; Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics; R858-859.7; Cerebral atrophy; Q1-390; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; [SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology; Mouse lemur; Atlas; MRI; Neuroscience

We present a dataset made of 3D digital brain templates and of an atlas of the gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus), a small prosimian primate of growing interest for studies of primate biology and evolution. A template image was constructed from in vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data of 34 animals. This template was then manually segmented into 40 cortical, 74 subcortical and 6 cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) regions. Additionally, the dataset contains probability maps of gray matter, white matter and CSF. The template, manual segmentation and probability maps can be downloaded in NIfTI-1 format at https://www.nitrc.org/projects/mouselemuratlas. Further construction and validation details are given in "A 3D population-based brain atlas of the mouse lemur primate with examples of applications in aging studies and comparative anatomy" (Nadkarni et al., 2018) [1], which also presents applications of the atlas such as automatic assessment of regional age-associated cerebral atrophy and comparative neuroanatomy studies.