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Artificial intelligence advances skull stripping across lifespan

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A skull-stripping artificial intelligence model leveraging personalized prior knowledge from brain atlases generates consistent brain extraction across diverse age groups, scanners and protocols.

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Fig. 1: Brain charts on total volumes from LifespanStrip and Bethlehem et al.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Ping Wang, Yin-Shan Wang & Xi-Nian Zuo

  2. Developmental Population Neuroscience Research Center, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Ping Wang, Yin-Shan Wang & Xi-Nian Zuo

  3. National Basic Science Data Center, Beijing, China

    Xi-Nian Zuo

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Wang, P., Wang, YS. & Zuo, XN. Artificial intelligence advances skull stripping across lifespan. Nat. Biomed. Eng 9, 1180–1181 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-025-01458-w

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