RheMAP-Surf v1.0 - Surface Transformations Among Commonly Used Rhesus Macaque Brain Templates

RheMAP-Surf v1.0

RheMAP-Surf provides precomputed deformation spheres for performing surface-based transformations among widely used rhesus macaque brain templates: NMT v2.0 (symmetric & asymmetric), D99, MEBRAINS v2.0, and Yerkes19. Transformations were generated with FSL's MSM (Multimodal Surface Matching).

What's included

• Standardized spherical and anatomical surfaces (surfaces/)
• Precomputed deformation spheres for template-to-template transformations (deformation_spheres/)
• demo/ with usage instructions and example code
• Processing details, quality assessment, and visualization reports (see Documentation below)

Two alignment flavors

• MSM-curv — conventional surface alignment using FreeSurfer-derived mean curvature
• MSM-aprx — MSM alignment driven by RheMAP-projected random features to approximate ANTs-derived volume registrations across surface spaces

Documentation

1. Surface preprocessing & medial wall harmonization
   https://github.com/HumanBrainED/RheMAP-Surf/blob/main/preprocessing.md
2. Surface alignment using mean curvature (MSM-curv)
   https://github.com/HumanBrainED/RheMAP-Surf/blob/main/msm_alignment_with_mean_curvature.md
3. Surface alignment using RheMAP-projected features (MSM-aprx)
   https://github.com/HumanBrainED/RheMAP-Surf/blob/main/msm_alignment_with_projected_features.md
4. Comparison between MSM-curv and MSM-aprx
   https://github.com/HumanBrainED/RheMAP-Surf/blob/main/msm_alignment_difference.md

Quick start

• See demo/ for a minimal end-to-end example and recommended usage patterns:
  https://github.com/HumanBrainED/RheMAP-Surf/tree/main/demo

How to cite

Zhou, Z.-X., & Xu, T. (2025). RheMAP-Surf: Surface Transformations Among Commonly Used Rhesus Macaque Brain Templates (1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15642802