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    • Neuroimaging and Computational Anatomy
    • Differential Geometry and Surface Analysis
    • Medical Image Processing

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    • Cortical surface analysis offers richer insights than volumetric analysis for neuroimaging data.
    • Existing methods often neglect the intrinsic geometry of the cortical surface, using ambient space metrics instead.
    • Accurate surface-based analysis requires computations respecting the surface's true metric.

    Discussion:

    • This work presents parameterization-based numerical methods for isotropic and anisotropic filtering on triangulated cortical surfaces.
    • The novel approach utilizes p-harmonic mappings to create a computational domain that intrinsically accounts for the surface metric.
    • Unlike existing Finite Element Method (FEM)-based techniques, this method correctly incorporates the surface's intrinsic geometry.

    Key Insights:

    • Developed parameterization-based numerical methods for accurate surface filtering on triangulated geometries.
    • Demonstrated the importance of using intrinsic surface geometry over ambient space metrics in neuroimaging analysis.
    • Validated the method by comparing numerical results with analytical solutions for diffusion on a sphere.

    Outlook:

    • Future applications include advanced smoothing of mean curvature maps for improved gyrification analysis.
    • The methods can enhance the registration of surface-based maps across different subjects.
    • Potential for broader application in analyzing complex biological surfaces beyond the cortex.