Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6036546 | NeuroImage | 2010 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
Measurement of brain change due to neurodegenerative disease and treatment is one of the fundamental tasks of neuroimaging. Deformation-based morphometry (DBM) has been long recognized as an effective and sensitive tool for estimating the change in the volume of brain regions over time. This paper demonstrates that a straightforward application of DBM to estimate the change in the volume of the hippocampus can result in substantial bias, i.e., an overestimation of the rate of change in hippocampal volume. In ADNI data, this bias is manifested as a non-zero intercept of the regression line fitted to the 6 and 12 month rates of hippocampal atrophy. The bias is further confirmed by applying DBM to repeat scans of subjects acquired on the same day. This bias appears to be the result of asymmetry in the interpolation of baseline and followup images during longitudinal image registration. Correcting this asymmetry leads to bias-free atrophy estimation.
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Authors
Paul A. Yushkevich, Brian B. Avants, Sandhitsu R. Das, John Pluta, Murat Altinay, Caryne Craige, the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative,