brainCOLOR Atlas

brainCOLOR Cortical Atlas

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Overview

The brainCOLOR atlas is a manually labeled human neuroanatomical parcellation scheme in which expert raters delineated hundreds of cortical and subcortical structures on high-resolution MRI scans, assigning consistent, color-coded labels to gray- and white-matter regions across the whole brain. It was constructed through detailed, slice-by-slice manual segmentation based on established neuroanatomical landmarks, with a standardized labeling protocol to ensure reproducibility across raters and subjects; the resulting labels are often distributed in MNI or subject-specific spaces and are designed to integrate with common neuroimaging workflows. The atlas is used for automated or semi-automated segmentation, region-of-interest definition, structural and functional MRI analyses, and as a reference standard for validating new parcellation algorithms and multimodal imaging methods in both research and clinical contexts. There is no direct link to the website.

Overview generated by GPT-4o (2026).


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ID Acronym Region
1 Accumbens-Area accumbens-area_right
2 Accumbens-Area accumbens-area_left
3 Amygdala amygdala_right
4 Amygdala amygdala_left
5 Caudate caudate_right
6 Caudate caudate_left
7 Cerebellum-Exterior cerebellum-exterior_right
8 Cerebellum-Exterior cerebellum-exterior_left
9 Hippocampus hippocampus_right
10 Hippocampus hippocampus_left
11 Pallidum pallidum_right
12 Pallidum pallidum_left
13 Putamen putamen_right
14 Putamen putamen_left
15 Thalamus-Proper thalamus-proper_right
16 Thalamus-Proper thalamus-proper_left
17 Ventral-DC ventral-dc_right
18 Ventral-DC ventral-dc_left
19 Cerebellar-Vermal-Lobules-I-V cerebellar-vermal-lobules-i-v_midline
20 Cerebellar-Vermal-Lobules-VI-VII cerebellar-vermal-lobules-vi-vii_midline
21 Cerebellar-Vermal-Lobules-VIII-X cerebellar-vermal-lobules-viii-x_midline
22 Basal-Forebrain basal-forebrain_left
23 Basal-Forebrain basal-forebrain_right
24 ACgG anterior-cingulate-gyrus_right
25 ACgG anterior-cingulate-gyrus_left
26 AIns anterior-insula_right
27 AIns anterior-insula_left
28 AOrG anterior-orbital-gyrus_right
29 AOrG anterior-orbital-gyrus_left
30 AnG angular-gyrus_right
31 AnG ang_left
32 Calc calcarine-cortex_right
33 Calc calcarine-cortex_left
34 CO central-operculum_right
35 CO central-operculum_left
36 Cun cuneus_right
37 Cun cuneus_left
38 ent entorhinal-area_right
39 ent entorhinal-area_left
40 FO frontal-operculum_right
41 FO frontal-operculum_left
42 FRP frontal-pole_right
43 FRP frontal-pole_left
44 FuG fusiform-gyrus_right
45 FuG fusiform-gyrus_left
46 GRe gyrus-rectus_right
47 GRe gyrus-rectus_left
48 IOG inferior-occipital-gyrus_right
49 IOG inferior-occipital-gyrus_left
50 ITG inferior-temporal-gyrus_right
51 ITG inferior-temporal-gyrus_left
52 LiG lingual-gyrus_right
53 LiG lingual-gyrus_left
54 LOrG lateral-orbital-gyrus_right
55 LOrG lateral-orbital-gyrus_left
56 MCgG middle-cingulate-gyrus_right
57 MCgG middle-cingulate-gyrus_left
58 MFC medial-frontal-cortex_right
59 MFC medial-frontal-cortex_left
60 MFG middle-frontal-gyrus_right
61 MFG middle-frontal-gyrus_left
62 MOG middle-occipital-gyrus_right
63 MOG middle-occipital-gyrus_left
64 MOrG medial-orbital-gyrus_right
65 MOrG medial-orbital-gyrus_left
66 MPoG postcentral-gyrus-medial-segment_right
67 MPoG postcentral-gyrus-medial-segment_left
68 MPrG precentral-gyrus-medial-segment_right
69 MPrG precentral-gyrus-medial-segment_left
70 MSFG superior-frontal-gyrus-medial-segment_right
71 MSFG superior-frontal-gyrus-medial-segment_left
72 MTG middle-temporal-gyrus_right
73 MTG middle-temporal-gyrus_left
74 OCP occipital-pole_right
75 OCP occipital-pole_left
76 OFuG occipital-fusiform-gyrus_right
77 OFuG occipital-fusiform-gyrus_left
78 OpIFG opercular-part-of-the-ifg_right
79 OpIFG opercular-part-of-the-ifg_left
80 OrIFG orbital-part-of-the-ifg_right
81 OrIFG orbital-part-of-the-ifg_left
82 PCgG posterior-cingulate-gyrus_right
83 PCgG posterior-cingulate-gyrus_left
84 PCu precuneus_right
85 PCu precuneus_left
86 PHG parahippocampal-gyrus_right
87 PHG parahippocampal-gyrus_left
88 PIns posterior-insula_right
89 PIns posterior-insula_left
90 PO parietal-operculum_right
91 PO parietal-operculum_left
92 PoG postcentral-gyrus_right
93 PoG postcentral-gyrus_left
94 POrG posterior-orbital-gyrus_right
95 POrG posterior-orbital-gyrus_left
96 PP planum-polare_right
97 PP planum-polare_left
98 PrG precentral-gyrus_right
99 PrG precentral-gyrus_left
100 PT planum-temporal_right
101 PT planum-temporal_left
102 SCA subcallosal-area_right
103 SCA subcallosal-area_left
104 SFG superior-frontal-gyrus_right
105 SFG superior-frontal-gyrus_left
106 SMC supplementary-motor-cortex_right
107 SMC supplementary-motor-cortex_left
108 SMG supramarginal-gyrus_right
109 SMG supramarginal-gyrus_left
110 SOG superior-occipital-gyrus_right
111 SOG superior-occipital-gyrus_left
112 SPL superior-parietal-lobule_right
113 SPL superior-parietal-lobule_left
114 STG superior-temporal-gyrus_right
115 STG superior-temporal-gyrus_left
116 TMP temporal-pole_right
117 TMP temporal-pole_left
118 TrIFG triangular-part-of-the-ifg_right
119 TrIFG triangular-part-of-the-ifg_left
120 TTG transverse-temporal-gyrus_right
121 TTG transverse-temporal-gyrus_left

Citation

Wali Sidiqyar*, Gaurav Rudravaram*, Elyssa M. McMaster, Trent M. Schwartz, Adam M. Saunders, Kurt G. Schilling, Bennett A. Landman "Introducing SPINS: A Shared Public Visualization Library of Neuroanatomical Structures." Medical Imaging with Deep Learning- short paper

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