CIVET-Chimp: An automated pipeline for MRI-based cortical surface extraction in chimpanzees
Claude Lepage, Erika Nolan, Trisanna Sprung-Much, Gabriel A. Devenyi, Michael Petrides, Alan C. Evans · 2026
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Lepage and colleagues introduce CIVET-Chimp, a software pipeline that maps the surface of the chimpanzee cortex from MRI scans. Their 2026 journal article adapts a human brain tool for chimps. The cortex is the folded outer layer of the brain.
The team built the pipeline on the existing CIVET system. They tuned it for chimpanzee brain size and shape. Testing used a 3-tesla MRI data set from the National Chimpanzee Brain Resource. Automated surface extraction replaces slow manual tracing. Reliable surfaces let researchers compare brain folding across primates. The authors present the tool as a resource for neuroscience. It may support studies of brain evolution and cognition.
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| CREATOR | Claude Lepage, Erika Nolan, Trisanna Sprung-Much, Gabriel A. Devenyi, Michael Petrides, Alan C. Evans |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49024 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |