Using brain atlases to localize regions of interest is a requirement for making neuroscientifically valid statistical inferences. These atlases, represented in volumetric or surface coordinate spaces, can describe brain topology from a variety of perspectives. Although many human brain atlases have circulated the field over the past fifty years, limited effort has been devoted to their standardization. Standardization can facilitate consistency and transparency with respect to orientation, resolution, labeling scheme, file storage format, and coordinate space designation. Our group has worked to consolidate an extensive selection of popular human brain atlases into a single, curated, open-source library, where they are stored following a standardized protocol with accompanying metadata, which can serve as the basis for future atlases. The repository containing the atlases, the specification, as well as relevant transformation functions is available in the neuroparc OSF registered repository or https://github.com/neurodata/neuroparc.

使用大脑图谱来定位感兴趣的区域是进行神经科学上有效的统计推断的必要条件。这些以体积或表面坐标空间表示的图谱可以从各种角度描述大脑拓扑结构。尽管在过去的 50 年中，许多人脑图谱在该领域流传开来，但对其标准化所做的努力却很有限。标准化可以促进在方向、分辨率、标签方案、文件存储格式和坐标空间指定方面的一致性和透明度。我们的团队致力于将广泛选择的流行人脑图谱整合到一个单一的、精选的开源库中，并按照标准化协议和随附的元数据存储在其中，这些元数据可以作为未来图谱的基础。