Brodmann areas in MNI space in .nii format

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Hello,

Do you know any webpage where I can download the Brodmann areas in MNI space? So far, I’ve only found this webpage but it’s in Tailarach space. I want to use them as a mask for my fMRI data on MATLAB.

Actually, this is a topic related to a question that I asked a few days ago, but unfortunately didn’t have any reply.

Thank you,
Arnau.

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MRIcron includes a Brodmann atlas. The atlas is roughly in MNI space (it matches SPM’s templates which are an average sized brain, the actual MNI templates are a bit larger than average, you can see this nicely in Figure 1 of Horn et al. (2018)). This atlas is described here, and I would beware of the caveats mentioned.

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The Brodmann areas are one of my favorite rants… I posted a response on the AFNI messageboard here and referred users to the Brodmann atlas from Mai and Matajnik, now in a beta version, and I’m waiting for an update.

https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/afni/community/board/read.php?1,164503,164505#msg-164505

Also Rory Pinjenburg presented at OHBM 2020 on a set of new classic atlases he is preparing, that includes the Brodmann areas.

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These atlases look very nice. Please publicize these when release versions are available.

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hi, i am very intersted in the brodmann atlas of Mai and Matajnik. do you know how i can find the released version?

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I’m sorry I don’t have any updates from Mai and Matajnik, so the previous link is all that I have available from them. The Pijnenburg atlases were somewhat recently published though. I think the MNI N27 version seems to be mostly okay, but the MNI 2009a symmetric version may need a bit more attention. I’m waiting to hear back from them about some of these tweaks.

http://www.dutchconnectomelab.nl/#:~:text=Supplementary%20information%2C%20tables%20and%20collection%20of%20volume%2Dbased%20and%20surface%2Dbased%20digital%20reconstructions%20of%20the%20cortical%20atlases%20of%20Brodmann%2C%20Campbell%2C%20Flechsig%2C%20Kleist%2C%20Smith%20and%20Von%20Economo

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Is there a documentation of this dataset ? Brodmann_MM

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If you are interested in Brodmann areas, I would recommend the Pijnenburg version now , which is described in the link above and distributed now with AFNI. The version you linked may be provided in this book in paper form and described there

https://shop.elsevier.com/books/human-brain-in-standard-mni-space/k-mai/978-0-12-811275-5

There may also be more information here:

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@dglen the link above for Pijnenburg version does not work. It gives me an error… Thanks for the other links.

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@dglen I have an other question: why do you recommend the Pijnenburg version now ? What are the drawbacks of the Brodmann atlas from Mai and Matajnik?

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The MM atlas seems good but sometimes doesn’t follow the folding of the cortex well. This may be caused by the method they used to transform their single subject data to MNI.

The links from ohbm are no longer live for the Pijnenburg Brodmann poster, but the journal article is available here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811921005504