FreeSurfer image processing pipeline for infant clinical MRI images

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The targeted age group, 0-2 years, has been underserved with respect to specialized computational tools that can robustly and accurately analyze brain MRI images. Several segmentation solutions exist for specific ages within this range, for example, for newborns (Prastawa, Gilmore et al. 2005, Wang, Shi et al. 2011, Gui, Lisowski et al. 2012, Gousias, Hammers et al. 2013, Wang, Gao et al. 2015), for 1-year olds (Wang, Gao et al. 2015), and for 2-year olds(Gousias, Rueckert et al. 2008),), some relying on access to longitudinal time points from the same subject to handle segmentation of the more challenging ages (Wang, Shi et al. 2011), but none can handle this relatively wide age range exclusively on clinical T1-weighted images.