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8.2.4. nilearn.datasets.fetch_atlas_msdl

nilearn.datasets.fetch_atlas_msdl(data_dir=None, url=None, resume=True, verbose=1)

Download and load the MSDL brain atlas.

It can be downloaded at [1], and cited using [2]. See also [3] for more information.

Parameters
data_dirstring, optional

Path of the data directory. Used to force data storage in a specified location. Default: None

urlstring, optional

Override download URL. Used for test only (or if you setup a mirror of the data).

resumebool, optional

Whether to resumed download of a partly-downloaded file. Default=True.

verboseint, optional

Verbosity level (0 means no message). Default=1.

Returns
datasklearn.datasets.base.Bunch

Dictionary-like object, the interest attributes are :

  • ‘maps’: str, path to nifti file containing regions definition.

  • ‘labels’: string list containing the labels of the regions.

  • ‘region_coords’: tuple list (x, y, z) containing coordinates of each region in MNI space.

  • ‘networks’: string list containing names of the networks.

  • ‘description’: description about the atlas.

References

1

https://team.inria.fr/parietal/files/2015/01/MSDL_rois.zip

2

Multi-subject dictionary learning to segment an atlas of brain spontaneous activity Gael Varoquaux, Alexandre Gramfort, Fabian Pedregosa, Vincent Michel, Bertrand Thirion. Information Processing in Medical Imaging, 2011, pp. 562-573, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

3

Learning and comparing functional connectomes across subjects. Gael Varoquaux, R.C. Craddock NeuroImage, 2013.