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The quantitative assessment of the developing human brain in utero is crucial to fully understand neurodevelopment. Thus, automated multi-tissue fetal brain segmentation algorithms are being developed, which in turn require annotated data…

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Fetal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is used in prenatal diagnosis and to assess early brain development. Accurate segmentation of the different brain tissues is a vital step in several brain analysis tasks, such as cortical surface…

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Automatic segmentation of the fetal brain is still challenging due to the health state of fetal development, motion artifacts, and variability across gestational ages, since existing methods rely on high-quality datasets of healthy fetuses.…

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