The planarian brain has an inverted-U shaped structure with functional regionalization. To investigate how each region in the brain connects to each other, we traced neural projections by microinjection of fluorescence dye tracers. We found that external light and olfactory/taste signals received in the head region are conveyed in the main lobes (sponge region) of the brain. Chemosensory neuron...

Introduction Brain region extraction is to segment brain region from nonbrain regions in magnetic resonance (MR) images. The segmented brain is usually used for measuring individual cortex thickness and brain volume, monitoring the development of the brain, and surface-based analysis. Brain region extraction is, therefore, an important step for various applications above mentioned. We present a...