Structural brain imaging in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment: biomarker analysis and shared morphometry database
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Author(s)
Ledig, C
Schuh, A
Guerrero
Heckemann, RA
Rueckert, D
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is a powerful technique for non-invasive in-vivo imaging of the human brain. We employed a recently validated method for robust cross-sectional and longitudinal segmentation of MR brain images from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) cohort. Specifically, we segmented 5074 MR brain images into 138 anatomical regions and extracted time-point specific structural volumes and volume change during follow-up intervals of 12 or 24 months. We assessed the extracted biomarkers by determining their power to predict diagnostic classification and by comparing atrophy rates to published meta-studies. The approach enables comprehensive analysis of structural changes within the whole brain. The discriminative power of individual biomarkers (volumes/atrophy rates) is on par with results published by other groups. We publish all quality-checked brain masks, structural segmentations, and extracted biomarkers along with this article. We further share the methodology for brain extraction (pincram) and segmentation (MALPEM, MALPEM4D) as open source projects with the community. The identified biomarkers hold great potential for deeper analysis, and the validated methodology can readily be applied to other imaging cohorts.
Date Issued
2018-07-26
Date Acceptance
2018-07-06
Citation
Scientific Reports, 2018, 8
ISSN
2045-2322
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
Journal / Book Title
Scientific Reports
Volume
8
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Grant Number
611005
Subjects
Science & Technology
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Science & Technology - Other Topics
MAGNETIC-RESONANCE IMAGES
HIPPOCAMPAL ATROPHY
MR-IMAGES
SEGMENTATION APPLICATION
CLASSIFICATION
DEMENTIA
PREDICTION
ADNI
TIME
DIAGNOSIS
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
11258