# Brain mask for human brain registration
**URL:** https://discourse.itk.org/t/brain-mask-for-human-brain-registration/2534
**Category:** Algorithms
**Tags:** registration
**Created:** [December 17, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/brain-mask-for-human-brain-registration/2534 "2019-12-17T17:00:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@fangc](https://discourse.itk.org/u/fangc)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/brain-mask-for-human-brain-registration/2534/1 "2019-12-17T17:00:17Z")
Hello,
I am currently working on a project of within subject registration of T1 and T2 images on human brains, and I want to add a brain mask to the registration. Does ITK have a class for automated brain extraction? Any suggestions? Thanks!
Best regards,
Fang
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### Author:  [@blowekamp](https://discourse.itk.org/u/blowekamp)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/brain-mask-for-human-brain-registration/2534/2 "2019-12-17T17:54:11Z")
Hello,
You may want to look into the Skull Stripping remote module:
[https://itk.org/Doxygen/html/classitk\_1\_1StripTsImageFilter.html](https://itk.org/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1StripTsImageFilter.html)
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### Author:  [@fangc](https://discourse.itk.org/u/fangc)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/brain-mask-for-human-brain-registration/2534/3 "2019-12-17T21:31:21Z")
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@lassoan](https://discourse.itk.org/u/lassoan)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/brain-mask-for-human-brain-registration/2534/4 "2019-12-19T20:46:06Z")
You can give this filter a try in 3D Slicer (it comes with a GUI, so you don’t need to do any scripting or compilation): [https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Modules/SwissSkullStripper](https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Modules/SwissSkullStripper)