Automated Anatomical Labeling (AAL) (or ''Anatomical Automatic Labeling'') is a software package and digital atlas of the

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. It is typically used in

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-based research to obtain neuroanatomical labels for the locations in 3-dimensional space where the measurements of some aspect of brain function were captured. In other words, it projects the divisions in the brain atlas onto brain-shaped volumes of functional data. It is developed by a French research group based in

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and described further in the following

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: * The AAL program is dependent upon the

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and SPM programs, but the digital human brain atlas itself can also be found elsewhere—within the MRIcron program, for example.

External links

Automated Anatomical Labeling
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