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8.2.5. nilearn.datasets.fetch_atlas_msdl

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

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_dirpathlib.Path or str, optional

Path where data should be downloaded. By default, files are downloaded in home directory.

urlstr, optional

URL of file to download. Override download URL. Used for test only (or if you setup a mirror of the data). Default=None.

resumebool, optional

Whether to resume 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

Spatially constrained parcellation. https://team.inria.fr/parietal/files/2015/01/MSDL_rois.zip. Accessed: 2021-05-19.

2

Gael Varoquaux, Alexandre Gramfort, Fabian Pedregosa, Vincent Michel, and Bertrand Thirion. Multi-subject dictionary learning to segment an atlas of brain spontaneous activity. In Information Processing in Medical Imaging, 562–573. Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

3

Gaël Varoquaux and R. Cameron Craddock. Learning and comparing functional connectomes across subjects. NeuroImage, 80:405–415, 2013. Mapping the Connectome. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811913003340, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.04.007.