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Choi KH, Heo YJ, Baek HJ, Kim JH, Jang JY. Comparison of Inter-Method Agreement and Reliability for Automatic Brain Volumetry Using Three Different Clinically Available Software Packages. MEDICINA (KAUNAS, LITHUANIA) 2024; 60:727. [PMID: 38792912 PMCID: PMC11122718 DOI: 10.3390/medicina60050727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2024] [Revised: 04/21/2024] [Accepted: 04/25/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024]
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Background and Objectives: No comparative study has evaluated the inter-method agreement and reliability between Heuron AD and other clinically available brain volumetric software packages. Hence, we aimed to investigate the inter-method agreement and reliability of three clinically available brain volumetric software packages: FreeSurfer (FS), NeuroQuant® (NQ), and Heuron AD (HAD). Materials and Methods: In this study, we retrospectively included 78 patients who underwent conventional three-dimensional (3D) T1-weighed imaging (T1WI) to evaluate their memory impairment, including 21 with normal objective cognitive function, 24 with mild cognitive impairment, and 33 with Alzheimer's disease (AD). All 3D T1WI scans were analyzed using three different volumetric software packages. Repeated-measures analysis of variance, intraclass correlation coefficient, effect size measurements, and Bland-Altman analysis were used to evaluate the inter-method agreement and reliability. Results: The measured volumes demonstrated substantial to almost perfect agreement for most brain regions bilaterally, except for the bilateral globi pallidi. However, the volumes measured using the three software packages showed significant mean differences for most brain regions, with consistent systematic biases and wide limits of agreement in the Bland-Altman analyses. The pallidum showed the largest effect size in the comparisons between NQ and FS (5.20-6.93) and between NQ and HAD (2.01-6.17), while the cortical gray matter showed the largest effect size in the comparisons between FS and HAD (0.79-1.91). These differences and variations between the software packages were also observed in the subset analyses of 45 patients without AD and 33 patients with AD. Conclusions: Despite their favorable reliability, the software-based brain volume measurements showed significant differences and systematic biases in most regions. Thus, these volumetric measurements should be interpreted based on the type of volumetric software used, particularly for smaller structures. Moreover, users should consider the replaceability-related limitations when using these packages in real-world practice.
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- Kwang Ho Choi
- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Research Institute for Convergence of Biomedical Science and Technology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine, 20 Geumo-ro, Mulgeum-eup, Yangsan-si 50612, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Busan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, 75, Bokji-ro, Busanjin-gu, Busan 47392, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine and Gyeongsang National University Changwon Hospital, 11 Samjeongja-ro, Seongsan-gu, Changwon 51472, Republic of Korea
- Miracle Radiology Clinic, 201 Songpa-daero, Songpa-gu, Seoul 05854, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine and Gyeongsang National University Changwon Hospital, 11 Samjeongja-ro, Seongsan-gu, Changwon 51472, Republic of Korea
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Pirici D, Mogoanta L, Ion DA, Kumar-Singh S. Fractal Analysis in Neurodegenerative Diseases. ADVANCES IN NEUROBIOLOGY 2024; 36:365-384. [PMID: 38468042 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47606-8_18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/13/2024]
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Neurodegenerative diseases are defined by progressive nervous system dysfunction and death of neurons. The abnormal conformation and assembly of proteins is suggested to be the most probable cause for many of these neurodegenerative disorders, leading to the accumulation of abnormally aggregated proteins, for example, amyloid β (Aβ) (Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia), tau protein (Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration), α-synuclein (Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia), polyglutamine expansion diseases (Huntington disease), or prion proteins (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease). An aberrant gain-of-function mechanism toward excessive intraparenchymal accumulation thus represents a common pathogenic denominator in all these proteinopathies. Moreover, depending upon the predominant brain area involvement, these different neurodegenerative diseases lead to either movement disorders or dementia syndromes, although the underlying mechanism(s) can sometimes be very similar, and on other occasions, clinically similar syndromes can have quite distinct pathologies. Non-Euclidean image analysis approaches such as fractal dimension (FD) analysis have been applied extensively in quantifying highly variable morphopathological patterns, as well as many other connected biological processes; however, their application to understand and link abnormal proteinaceous depositions to other clinical and pathological features composing these syndromes is yet to be clarified. Thus, this short review aims to present the most important applications of FD in investigating the clinical-pathological spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases.
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- Daniel Pirici
- Department of Histology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
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- Department of Histology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
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- Department of Physiopathology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, Bucharest, Romania
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- Molecular Pathology Group, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Cell Biology & Histology and Translational Neuroscience Department, University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
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Yang Q, Cai S, Chen G, Yu X, Cattell RF, Raviv TR, Huang C, Zhang N, Gao Y. Fine scale hippocampus morphology variation cross 552 healthy subjects from age 20 to 80. Front Neurosci 2023; 17:1162096. [PMID: 37719158 PMCID: PMC10501455 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1162096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 07/26/2023] [Indexed: 09/19/2023] Open
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The cerebral cortex varies over the course of a person's life span: at birth, the surface is smooth, before becoming more bumpy (deeper sulci and thicker gyri) in middle age, and thinner in senior years. In this work, a similar phenomenon was observed on the hippocampus. It was previously believed the fine-scale morphology of the hippocampus could only be extracted only with high field scanners (7T, 9.4T); however, recent studies show that regular 3T MR scanners can be sufficient for this purpose. This finding opens the door for the study of fine hippocampal morphometry for a large amount of clinical data. In particular, a characteristic bumpy and subtle feature on the inferior aspect of the hippocampus, which we refer to as hippocampal dentation, presents a dramatic degree of variability between individuals from very smooth to highly dentated. In this report, we propose a combined method joining deep learning and sub-pixel level set evolution to efficiently obtain fine-scale hippocampal segmentation on 552 healthy subjects. Through non-linear dentation extraction and fitting, we reveal that the bumpiness of the inferior surface of the human hippocampus has a clear temporal trend. It is bumpiest between 40 and 50 years old. This observation should be aligned with neurodevelopmental and aging stages.
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- Qinzhu Yang
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
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- The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
- Department of Radiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine for Hematological Malignancies, Shenzhen, China
- Marshall Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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Song H, Lee SA, Jo SW, Chang SK, Lim Y, Yoo YS, Kim JH, Choi SH, Sohn CH. Agreement and Reliability between Clinically Available Software Programs in Measuring Volumes and Normative Percentiles of Segmented Brain Regions. Korean J Radiol 2022; 23:959-975. [PMID: 36175000 PMCID: PMC9523231 DOI: 10.3348/kjr.2022.0067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2022] [Revised: 07/15/2022] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the agreement and reliability of estimating the volumes and normative percentiles (N%) of segmented brain regions among NeuroQuant (NQ), DeepBrain (DB), and FreeSurfer (FS) software programs, focusing on the comparison between NQ and DB. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three-dimensional T1-weighted images of 145 participants (48 healthy participants, 50 patients with mild cognitive impairment, and 47 patients with Alzheimer's disease) from a single medical center (SMC) dataset and 130 participants from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset were included in this retrospective study. All images were analyzed with DB, NQ, and FS software to obtain volume estimates and N% of various segmented brain regions. We used Bland-Altman analysis, repeated measures ANOVA, reproducibility coefficient, effect size, and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) to evaluate inter-method agreement and reliability. RESULTS Among the three software programs, the Bland-Altman plot showed a substantial bias, the ICC showed a broad range of reliability (0.004-0.97), and repeated-measures ANOVA revealed significant mean volume differences in all brain regions. Similarly, the volume differences of the three software programs had large effect sizes in most regions (0.73-5.51). The effect size was largest in the pallidum in both datasets and smallest in the thalamus and cerebral white matter in the SMC and ADNI datasets, respectively. N% of NQ and DB showed an unacceptably broad Bland-Altman limit of agreement in all brain regions and a very wide range of ICC values (-0.142-0.844) in most brain regions. CONCLUSION NQ and DB showed significant differences in the measured volume and N%, with limited agreement and reliability for most brain regions. Therefore, users should be aware of the lack of interchangeability between these software programs when they are applied in clinical practice.
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- Huijin Song
- Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University Medical Center, Hwaseong, Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University Medical Center, Hwaseong, Korea.
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- Department of Radiology, Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University Medical Center, Hwaseong, Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University Medical Center, Hwaseong, Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University Medical Center, Hwaseong, Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University Medical Center, Hwaseong, Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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Qu C, Zou Y, Dai Q, Ma Y, He J, Liu Q, Kuang W, Jia Z, Chen T, Gong Q. Advancing diagnostic performance and clinical applicability of deep learning-driven generative adversarial networks for Alzheimer's disease. PSYCHORADIOLOGY 2021; 1:225-248. [PMID: 38666217 PMCID: PMC10917234 DOI: 10.1093/psyrad/kkab017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2021] [Revised: 11/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/25/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that severely affects the activities of daily living in aged individuals, which typically needs to be diagnosed at an early stage. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) provide a new deep learning method that show good performance in image processing, while it remains to be verified whether a GAN brings benefit in AD diagnosis. The purpose of this research is to systematically review psychoradiological studies on the application of a GAN in the diagnosis of AD from the aspects of classification of AD state and AD-related image processing compared with other methods. In addition, we evaluated the research methodology and provided suggestions from the perspective of clinical application. Compared with other methods, a GAN has higher accuracy in the classification of AD state and better performance in AD-related image processing (e.g. image denoising and segmentation). Most studies used data from public databases but lacked clinical validation, and the process of quantitative assessment and comparison in these studies lacked clinicians' participation, which may have an impact on the improvement of generation effect and generalization ability of the GAN model. The application value of GANs in the classification of AD state and AD-related image processing has been confirmed in reviewed studies. Improvement methods toward better GAN architecture were also discussed in this paper. In sum, the present study demonstrated advancing diagnostic performance and clinical applicability of GAN for AD, and suggested that the future researchers should consider recruiting clinicians to compare the algorithm with clinician manual methods and evaluate the clinical effect of the algorithm.
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- Changxing Qu
- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610044, China
- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610044, China
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- West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610044, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610044, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610044, China
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- School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610044, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610044, China
- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, P.R. China
- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Provience, Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, P.R. China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610044, China
- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, P.R. China
- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Provience, Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, P.R. China
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Saeed U, Desmarais P, Masellis M. The APOE ε4 variant and hippocampal atrophy in Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia: a systematic review of magnetic resonance imaging studies and therapeutic relevance. Expert Rev Neurother 2021; 21:851-870. [PMID: 34311631 DOI: 10.1080/14737175.2021.1956904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Introduction: The apolipoprotein E ɛ4-allele (APOE-ɛ4) increases the risk not only for Alzheimer's disease (AD) but also for Parkinson's disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies (collectively, Lewy body dementia [LBD]). Hippocampal volume is an important neuroimaging biomarker for AD and LBD, although its association with APOE-ɛ4 is inconsistently reported. We investigated the association of APOE-ε4 with hippocampal atrophy quantified using magnetic resonance imaging in AD and LBD.Areas covered: Databases were searched for volumetric and voxel-based morphometric studies published up until December 31st, 2020. Thirty-nine studies (25 cross-sectional, 14 longitudinal) were included. We observed that (1) APOE-ε4 was associated with greater rate of hippocampal atrophy in longitudinal studies in AD and in those who progressed from mild cognitive impairment to AD, (2) association of APOE-ε4 with hippocampal atrophy in cross-sectional studies was inconsistent, (3) APOE-ɛ4 may influence hippocampal atrophy in dementia with Lewy bodies, although longitudinal investigations are needed. We comprehensively discussed methodological aspects, APOE-based therapeutic approaches, and the association of APOE-ε4 with hippocampal sub-regions and cognitive performance.Expert opinion: The role of APOE-ɛ4 in modulating hippocampal phenotypes may be further clarified through more homogenous, well-powered, and pathology-proven, longitudinal investigations. Understanding the underlying mechanisms will facilitate the development of prevention strategies targeting APOE-ɛ4.
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- Usman Saeed
- Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada.,Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
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- Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada.,Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
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- Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada.,Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada.,Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,Cognitive and Movement Disorders Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
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Barber P, Nestor SM, Wang M, Wu P, Ursenbach J, Munir A, Gupta R, Tariq SS, Smith E, Frayne R, Black SE, Sajobi T, Coutts S. Hippocampal atrophy and cognitive function in transient ischemic attack and minor stroke patients over three years. CEREBRAL CIRCULATION - COGNITION AND BEHAVIOR 2021; 2:100019. [PMID: 36324718 PMCID: PMC9616379 DOI: 10.1016/j.cccb.2021.100019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2021] [Revised: 06/17/2021] [Accepted: 06/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Introduction Transient ischemic attack (TIA) and minor ischemic stroke (IS) is associated with a increased risk of late life dementia. In this study we aim to study the extent to which the rates of hippocampal atrophy in TIA/IS differ from healthy controls, and how they are correlated to neuropsychological measurements. Methods TIA or minor stroke patients were tested with a neuropsychological battery including tests of executive function, and verbal and non-verbal memory at three time points out to 3 years. Annualized rates of hippocampal atrophy in TIA/IS patients were compared to controls. A linear-mixed regression model was used to assess the difference in rates of hippocampal atrophy after adjusting for time and demographic characteristics. Results TIA/IS patients demonstrated a higher hippocampal atrophy rate than healthy controls over a 3-year interval: the annual percentage change of the left hippocampal volume was 2.5% (78 mm3 per year (SD 60)) for TIA/IS patients compared to 0.9% (29 mm3 per year (SD 32)) for controls (p < 0.01); and the annual percentage change of the right hippocampal volume was 2.5% (80 mm3 per year (SD 46)) for TIA/IS patients compared to 0.5% (17 mm3 per year (SD 33)) for controls (P < 0.01). Patients with higher annual hippocampal atrophy were more likely to report higher TMT B times, but lower ROC total score, lower California Verbal Learning Test-II total recall, and lower ROC Figure recall scores longitudinally. Conclusion TIA/IS patients experience a higher rate of hippocampal atrophy independent of TIA/IS recurrence that are associated with changes in episodic memory and executive function over 3 years.
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- Philip Barber
- Calgary Stroke Program, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary AB, Canada
- Cumming School of Medicine, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary AB, Canada
- Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, 3280 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Canada
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- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, 3280 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Canada
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- Calgary Stroke Program, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary AB, Canada
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- Calgary Stroke Program, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary AB, Canada
- Seaman Family MR Center, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary AB, Canada
- Cumming School of Medicine, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary AB, Canada
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- Calgary Stroke Program, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary AB, Canada
- Seaman Family MR Center, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary AB, Canada
- Cumming School of Medicine, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary AB, Canada
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- Calgary Stroke Program, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary AB, Canada
- Seaman Family MR Center, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary AB, Canada
- Cumming School of Medicine, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary AB, Canada
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- Calgary Stroke Program, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary AB, Canada
- Cumming School of Medicine, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary AB, Canada
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- Calgary Stroke Program, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary AB, Canada
- Cumming School of Medicine, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary AB, Canada
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- Seaman Family MR Center, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary AB, Canada
- Cumming School of Medicine, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary AB, Canada
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary, Canada
- Department of Radiology, University of Calgary, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary, Canada
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- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Calgary Stroke Program, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary AB, Canada
- Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, 3280 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Canada
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- Calgary Stroke Program, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary AB, Canada
- Cumming School of Medicine, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary AB, Canada
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Nobakht S, Schaeffer M, Forkert ND, Nestor S, E. Black S, Barber P. Combined Atlas and Convolutional Neural Network-Based Segmentation of the Hippocampus from MRI According to the ADNI Harmonized Protocol. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 21:2427. [PMID: 33915960 PMCID: PMC8036492 DOI: 10.3390/s21072427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2020] [Revised: 03/21/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Hippocampus atrophy is an early structural feature that can be measured from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to improve the diagnosis of neurological diseases. An accurate and robust standardized hippocampus segmentation method is required for reliable atrophy assessment. The aim of this work was to develop and evaluate an automatic segmentation tool (DeepHarp) for hippocampus delineation according to the ADNI harmonized hippocampal protocol (HarP). DeepHarp utilizes a two-step process. First, the approximate location of the hippocampus is identified in T1-weighted MRI datasets using an atlas-based approach, which is used to crop the images to a region-of-interest (ROI) containing the hippocampus. In the second step, a convolutional neural network trained using datasets with corresponding manual hippocampus annotations is used to segment the hippocampus from the cropped ROI. The proposed method was developed and validated using 107 datasets with manually segmented hippocampi according to the ADNI-HarP standard as well as 114 multi-center datasets of patients with Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, cerebrovascular disease, and healthy controls. Twenty-three independent datasets manually segmented according to the ADNI-HarP protocol were used for testing to assess the accuracy, while an independent test-retest dataset was used to assess precision. The proposed DeepHarp method achieved a mean Dice similarity score of 0.88, which was significantly better than four other established hippocampus segmentation methods used for comparison. At the same time, the proposed method also achieved a high test-retest precision (mean Dice score: 0.95). In conclusion, DeepHarp can automatically segment the hippocampus from T1-weighted MRI datasets according to the ADNI-HarP protocol with high accuracy and robustness, which can aid atrophy measurements in a variety of pathologies.
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- Samaneh Nobakht
- Medical Sciences Graduate Program, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada; (M.S.); (N.D.F.); (P.B.)
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada; (M.S.); (N.D.F.); (P.B.)
- Department of Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S, Canada; (S.N.); (S.E.B.)
- Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S, Canada; (S.N.); (S.E.B.)
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada; (M.S.); (N.D.F.); (P.B.)
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Lee JY, Park JE, Chung MS, Oh SW, Moon WJ. Expert Opinions and Recommendations for the Clinical Use of Quantitative Analysis Software for MRI-Based Brain Volumetry. JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF RADIOLOGY 2021; 82:1124-1139. [PMID: 36238415 PMCID: PMC9432367 DOI: 10.3348/jksr.2020.0174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2020] [Revised: 12/31/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
치매를 비롯한 퇴행성 신경 질환의 초기 진단에 자기공명영상을 이용한 뇌 위축 평가와 정량적 용적 분석이 중요하다. 뇌 위축의 시각적 평가는 주관적으로 평가자에 따라 다른 결과를 보여주기 때문에, 객관적인 결과를 제공하면서 임상 적용도 가능한 소프트웨어의 수요와 개발이 늘어나고 있다. 이러한 임상용 소프트웨어의 실제 임상 적용은 영상 검사의 표준화가 선행되어야 하고, 개발된 소프트웨어의 검증이 반드시 필요하다. 따라서 대한신경두경부영상의학회는 뇌용적 분석 임상용 소프트웨어의 임상적 활용에 대한 의견을 제시하기 위해 전문위원회를 구성하고 현재까지 발표된 연구를 정리하였다. 그리고, 정량화 분석을 위한 영상 검사의 표준화 및 소프트웨어의 임상 적용에 대한 전문가 의견을 제시하기 위하여 공동 작업을 수행하였다. 본 종설에서는 뇌 자기공명영상의 정량화 분석의 필요성 및 배경, 정량화 분석을 위한 임상용 소프트웨어의 소개 및 기존의 표준품(reference standard)과의 진단능 비교, 영상 획득의 표준화, 분석 및 평가의 표준화, 소프트웨어의 임상 적용에 대한 전문가 의견, 제한점 및 대처 방법 등 대한신경두경부영상의학회의 전문가 권고안을 소개하는 것이 목적이다.
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- Ji Young Lee
- Department of Radiology, Hanyang University Medical Center, Hanyang University Medical College, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Konkuk University Medical Center, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Payoux P, Ranjeva JP. Contributions of PET and MRI imaging in the evaluation of CNS drugs in human neurodegenerative diseases. Therapie 2020; 76:121-126. [PMID: 33563477 DOI: 10.1016/j.therap.2020.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2020] [Accepted: 09/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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This manuscript reviews the contributions of the neuroimaging methods including PET, conventional and advanced MRI methods to monitor the effect of new disease modifying drugs in neurodegenerative diseases. It now seems obvious that in many pathologies these two techniques are more and more complementary.
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- Pierre Payoux
- Inserm, UPS, ToNIC, Nuclear Medicine Department, Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, University Hospital of Toulouse France, Université de Toulouse, 31000 Toulouse, France.
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- CNRS, CRMBM, Aix-Marseille University, 13385 Marseille, France; CEMEREM, AP-HM, University Hospital Timone, 13385 Marseille, France
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Lee JY, Oh SW, Chung MS, Park JE, Moon Y, Jeon HJ, Moon WJ. Clinically Available Software for Automatic Brain Volumetry: Comparisons of Volume Measurements and Validation of Intermethod Reliability. Korean J Radiol 2020; 22:405-414. [PMID: 33236539 PMCID: PMC7909859 DOI: 10.3348/kjr.2020.0518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2020] [Revised: 06/08/2020] [Accepted: 06/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE To compare two clinically available MR volumetry software, NeuroQuant® (NQ) and Inbrain® (IB), and examine the inter-method reliabilities and differences between them. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study included 172 subjects (age range, 55-88 years; mean age, 71.2 years), comprising 45 normal healthy subjects, 85 patients with mild cognitive impairment, and 42 patients with Alzheimer's disease. Magnetic resonance imaging scans were analyzed with IB and NQ. Mean differences were compared with the paired t test. Inter-method reliability was evaluated with Pearson's correlation coefficients and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs). Effect sizes were also obtained to document the standardized mean differences. RESULTS The paired t test showed significant volume differences in most regions except for the amygdala between the two methods. Nevertheless, inter-method measurements between IB and NQ showed good to excellent reliability (0.72 < r < 0.96, 0.83 < ICC < 0.98) except for the pallidum, which showed poor reliability (left: r = 0.03, ICC = 0.06; right: r = -0.05, ICC = -0.09). For the measurements of effect size, volume differences were large in most regions (0.05 < r < 6.15). The effect size was the largest in the pallidum and smallest in the cerebellum. CONCLUSION Comparisons between IB and NQ showed significantly different volume measurements with large effect sizes. However, they showed good to excellent inter-method reliability in volumetric measurements for all brain regions, with the exception of the pallidum. Clinicians using these commercial software should take into consideration that different volume measurements could be obtained depending on the software used.
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- Ji Young Lee
- Department of Radiology, Hanyang University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Konkuk University Medical Center, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Konkuk University Medical Center, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Konkuk University Medical Center, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
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Ramirez J, Holmes MF, Scott CJM, Ozzoude M, Adamo S, Szilagyi GM, Goubran M, Gao F, Arnott SR, Lawrence-Dewar JM, Beaton D, Strother SC, Munoz DP, Masellis M, Swartz RH, Bartha R, Symons S, Black SE. Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI): Structural MRI Methods and Outcome Measures. Front Neurol 2020; 11:847. [PMID: 32849254 PMCID: PMC7431907 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2020] [Accepted: 07/07/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The Ontario Neurodegenerative Research Initiative (ONDRI) is a 3 years multi-site prospective cohort study that has acquired comprehensive multiple assessment platform data, including 3T structural MRI, from neurodegenerative patients with Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia, and cerebrovascular disease. This heterogeneous cross-section of patients with complex neurodegenerative and neurovascular pathologies pose significant challenges for standard neuroimaging tools. To effectively quantify regional measures of normal and pathological brain tissue volumes, the ONDRI neuroimaging platform implemented a semi-automated MRI processing pipeline that was able to address many of the challenges resulting from this heterogeneity. The purpose of this paper is to serve as a reference and conceptual overview of the comprehensive neuroimaging pipeline used to generate regional brain tissue volumes and neurovascular marker data that will be made publicly available online.
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- Joel Ramirez
- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Medicine (Neurology), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Medicine (Neurology), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Medicine (Neurology), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Ardekani BA, Izadi NO, Hadid SA, Meftah AM, Bachman AH. Effects of sex, age, and apolipoprotein E genotype on hippocampal parenchymal fraction in cognitively normal older adults. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2020; 301:111107. [PMID: 32416384 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2020.111107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2020] [Revised: 03/24/2020] [Accepted: 04/15/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Early detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is important for timely interventions and developing new treatments. Hippocampus atrophy is an early biomarker of AD. The hippocampal parenchymal fraction (HPF) is a promising measure of hippocampal structural integrity computed from structural MRI. It is important to characterize the dependence of HPF on covariates such as age and sex in the normal population to enhance its utility as a disease biomarker. We measured the HPF in 4239 structural MRI scans from 340 cognitively normal (CN) subjects aged 59-89 years from the AD Neuroimaging Initiative database, and studied its dependence on age, sex, apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype, brain hemisphere, intracranial volume (ICV), and education using a linear mixed-effects model. In this CN cohort, HPF was inversely associated with ICV; was greater on the right hemisphere compared to left in both sexes with the degree of right > left asymmetry being slightly more pronounced in men; declined quadratically with age and faster in APOE ϵ4 carriers compared to non-carriers; and was significantly associated with cognitive ability. Consideration of HPF as an AD biomarker should be in conjunction with other subject attributes that are shown in this research to influence HPF levels in CN older individuals.
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- Babak A Ardekani
- Center for Brain Imaging and Neuromodulation, The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA; Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
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- Center for Brain Imaging and Neuromodulation, The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
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- Center for Brain Imaging and Neuromodulation, The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
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- Center for Brain Imaging and Neuromodulation, The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
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- Center for Brain Imaging and Neuromodulation, The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
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Goubran M, Ntiri EE, Akhavein H, Holmes M, Nestor S, Ramirez J, Adamo S, Ozzoude M, Scott C, Gao F, Martel A, Swardfager W, Masellis M, Swartz R, MacIntosh B, Black SE. Hippocampal segmentation for brains with extensive atrophy using three-dimensional convolutional neural networks. Hum Brain Mapp 2020; 41:291-308. [PMID: 31609046 PMCID: PMC7267905 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2019] [Revised: 09/09/2019] [Accepted: 09/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Hippocampal volumetry is a critical biomarker of aging and dementia, and it is widely used as a predictor of cognitive performance; however, automated hippocampal segmentation methods are limited because the algorithms are (a) not publicly available, (b) subject to error with significant brain atrophy, cerebrovascular disease and lesions, and/or (c) computationally expensive or require parameter tuning. In this study, we trained a 3D convolutional neural network using 259 bilateral manually delineated segmentations collected from three studies, acquired at multiple sites on different scanners with variable protocols. Our training dataset consisted of elderly cases difficult to segment due to extensive atrophy, vascular disease, and lesions. Our algorithm, (HippMapp3r), was validated against four other publicly available state-of-the-art techniques (HippoDeep, FreeSurfer, SBHV, volBrain, and FIRST). HippMapp3r outperformed the other techniques on all three metrics, generating an average Dice of 0.89 and a correlation coefficient of 0.95. It was two orders of magnitude faster than some of the tested techniques. Further validation was performed on 200 subjects from two other disease populations (frontotemporal dementia and vascular cognitive impairment), highlighting our method's low outlier rate. We finally tested the methods on real and simulated "clinical adversarial" cases to study their robustness to corrupt, low-quality scans. The pipeline and models are available at: https://hippmapp3r.readthedocs.ioto facilitate the study of the hippocampus in large multisite studies.
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- Maged Goubran
- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology UnitHurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
- Canadian Partnership for Stroke RecoveryHeart and Stroke FoundationTorontoOntarioCanada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology UnitHurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
- Canadian Partnership for Stroke RecoveryHeart and Stroke FoundationTorontoOntarioCanada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology UnitHurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
- Canadian Partnership for Stroke RecoveryHeart and Stroke FoundationTorontoOntarioCanada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology UnitHurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
- Canadian Partnership for Stroke RecoveryHeart and Stroke FoundationTorontoOntarioCanada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology UnitHurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology UnitHurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
- Canadian Partnership for Stroke RecoveryHeart and Stroke FoundationTorontoOntarioCanada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology UnitHurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
- Canadian Partnership for Stroke RecoveryHeart and Stroke FoundationTorontoOntarioCanada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology UnitHurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
- Canadian Partnership for Stroke RecoveryHeart and Stroke FoundationTorontoOntarioCanada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology UnitHurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
- Canadian Partnership for Stroke RecoveryHeart and Stroke FoundationTorontoOntarioCanada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology UnitHurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
- Canadian Partnership for Stroke RecoveryHeart and Stroke FoundationTorontoOntarioCanada
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- Department of Medical BiophysicsUniversity of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
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- Canadian Partnership for Stroke RecoveryHeart and Stroke FoundationTorontoOntarioCanada
- Department of Pharmacology and ToxicologyUniversity of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
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- Canadian Partnership for Stroke RecoveryHeart and Stroke FoundationTorontoOntarioCanada
- Department of Medicine (Neurology division)University of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology UnitHurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
- Canadian Partnership for Stroke RecoveryHeart and Stroke FoundationTorontoOntarioCanada
- Department of Medicine (Neurology division)University of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
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- Canadian Partnership for Stroke RecoveryHeart and Stroke FoundationTorontoOntarioCanada
- Department of Medical BiophysicsUniversity of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology UnitHurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
- Canadian Partnership for Stroke RecoveryHeart and Stroke FoundationTorontoOntarioCanada
- Department of Medical ImagingUniversity of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
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Hippocampal atrophy measures from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are powerful tools for monitoring Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression. In this paper, we introduce a longitudinal image analysis framework based on robust registration and simultaneous hippocampal segmentation and longitudinal marker classification of brain MRI of an arbitrary number of time points. The framework comprises two innovative parts: a longitudinal segmentation and a longitudinal classification step. The results show that both steps of the longitudinal pipeline improved the reliability and the accuracy of the discrimination between clinical groups. We introduce a novel approach to the joint segmentation of the hippocampus across multiple time points; this approach is based on graph cuts of longitudinal MRI scans with constraints on hippocampal atrophy and supported by atlases. Furthermore, we use linear mixed effect (LME) modeling for differential diagnosis between clinical groups. The classifiers are trained from the average residue between the longitudinal marker of the subjects and the LME model. In our experiments, we analyzed MRI-derived longitudinal hippocampal markers from two publicly available datasets (Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, ADNI and Minimal Interval Resonance Imaging in Alzheimer's Disease, MIRIAD). In test/retest reliability experiments, the proposed method yielded lower volume errors and significantly higher dice overlaps than the cross-sectional approach (volume errors: 1.55% vs 0.8%; dice overlaps: 0.945 vs 0.975). To diagnose AD, the discrimination ability of our proposal gave an area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) [Formula: see text] 0.947 for the control vs AD, AUC [Formula: see text] 0.720 for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) vs AD, and AUC [Formula: see text] 0.805 for the control vs MCI.
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Wang C, Zhao L, Luo Y, Liu J, Miao P, Wei S, Shi L, Cheng J. Structural covariance in subcortical stroke patients measured by automated MRI-based volumetry. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2019; 22:101682. [PMID: 30710874 PMCID: PMC6357849 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2018] [Revised: 12/27/2018] [Accepted: 01/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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A network-level investigation of the volumetric changes of subcortical stroke patients is still lacking. Here, we explored the alterations of structural covariance caused by subcortical stroke with automated brain volumetry. T1-weighed brain MRI scans were obtained from 63 normal controls (NC), 46 stroke patients with infarct in left internal capsule (CI_L), 33 stroke patients with infarct in right internal capsule (CI_R). We performed automatic anatomical segmentation of the T1-weighted brain images with AccuBrain. Volumetric structural covariance analyses were first performed within the basal ganglia structures that were both identified by voxel-based morphometry with AAL atlas and AccuBrain. Subsequently, we additionally included the infratentorial regions that were particularly quantified by AccuBrain for the structural covariance analyses and investigated the alterations of anatomical connections within these subcortical regions in CI_L and CI_R compared with NC. The association between the regional brain volumetry and motor function was also evaluated in stroke groups. There were significant and extensive volumetric differences in stroke patients. These significant regions were generally symmetric for CI_L and CI_R group depending on the side of stroke, involving both regions close to lesions and remote regions. The structural covariance analyses revealed the synergy volume alteration in subcortical regions both in CI_L and CI_R group. In addition, the alterations of volumetric structural covariance were more extensive in CI_L group than CI_R group. Moreover, we found that the subcortical regions with atrophy contributed to the deficits of motor function in CI_R group but not CI_L group, indicating a lesion-side effect of brain volumetric changes after stroke. These findings indicated that the chronic subcortical stroke patients have extensive disordered anatomical connections involving the whole-brain level network, and the connections patterns depend on the lesion-side. Chronic subcortical stroke patients show extensive brain volumetric atrophy. Subcortical stroke patients show disordered structural covariance network pattern. Brain volumetric and connections patterns change depend on the lesion-side.
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- Caihong Wang
- Department of MRI, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- BrainNow Research Institute, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
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- BrainNow Research Institute, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Department of MRI, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- BrainNow Research Institute, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China; Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.
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- Department of MRI, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
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Shi Y, Cheng K, Liu Z. Hippocampal subfields segmentation in brain MR images using generative adversarial networks. Biomed Eng Online 2019; 18:5. [PMID: 30665408 PMCID: PMC6341719 DOI: 10.1186/s12938-019-0623-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2018] [Accepted: 01/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background Segmenting the hippocampal subfields accurately from brain magnetic resonance (MR) images is a challenging task in medical image analysis. Due to the small structural size and the morphological complexity of the hippocampal subfields, the traditional segmentation methods are hard to obtain the ideal segmentation result. Methods In this paper, we proposed a hippocampal subfields segmentation method using generative adversarial networks. The proposed method can achieve the pixel-level classification of brain MR images by building an UG-net model and an adversarial model and training the two models against each other alternately. UG-net extracts local information and retains the interrelationship features between pixels. Moreover, the adversarial training implements spatial consistency among the generated class labels and smoothens the edges of class labels on segmented region. Results The evaluation has performed on the dataset obtained from center for imaging of neurodegenerative diseases (CIND) for CA1, CA2, DG, CA3, Head, Tail, SUB, ERC and PHG in hippocampal subfields, resulting in the dice similarity coefficient (DSC) of 0.919, 0.648, 0.903, 0.673, 0.929, 0.913, 0.906, 0.884 and 0.889 respectively. For the large subfields, such as Head and CA1 of hippocampus, the DSC was increased by 3.9% and 9.03% than state-of-the-art approaches, while for the smaller subfields, such as ERC and PHG, the segmentation accuracy was significantly increased 20.93% and 16.30% respectively. Conclusion The results show the improvement in performance of the proposed method, compared with other methods, which include approaches based on multi-atlas, hierarchical multi-atlas, dictionary learning and sparse representation and CNN. In implementation, the proposed method provides better results in hippocampal subfields segmentation.
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- Yonggang Shi
- Beijing Institute of Technology, Institute of Signal and Image Processing, School of Information and Electronics, Haidian District, Beijing, 100081, China.
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- Beijing Institute of Technology, Institute of Signal and Image Processing, School of Information and Electronics, Haidian District, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Beijing Institute of Technology, Institute of Signal and Image Processing, School of Information and Electronics, Haidian District, Beijing, 100081, China
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Herten A, Konrad K, Krinzinger H, Seitz J, von Polier GG. Accuracy and bias of automatic hippocampal segmentation in children and adolescents. Brain Struct Funct 2018; 224:795-810. [DOI: 10.1007/s00429-018-1802-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2018] [Accepted: 11/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Saeed U, Mirza SS, MacIntosh BJ, Herrmann N, Keith J, Ramirez J, Nestor SM, Yu Q, Knight J, Swardfager W, Potkin SG, Rogaeva E, St George-Hyslop P, Black SE, Masellis M. APOE-ε4 associates with hippocampal volume, learning, and memory across the spectrum of Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. Alzheimers Dement 2018; 14:1137-1147. [PMID: 29782824 DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2018.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2017] [Revised: 04/02/2018] [Accepted: 04/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Although the apolipoprotein E ε4-allele (APOE-ε4) is a susceptibility factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), its relationship with imaging and cognitive measures across the AD/DLB spectrum remains unexplored. METHODS We studied 298 patients (AD = 250, DLB = 48; 38 autopsy-confirmed; NCT01800214) using neuropsychological testing, volumetric magnetic resonance imaging, and APOE genotyping to investigate the association of APOE-ε4 with hippocampal volume and learning/memory phenotypes, irrespective of diagnosis. RESULTS Across the AD/DLB spectrum: (1) hippocampal volumes were smaller with increasing APOE-ε4 dosage (no genotype × diagnosis interaction observed), (2) learning performance as assessed by total recall scores was associated with hippocampal volumes only among APOE-ε4 carriers, and (3) APOE-ε4 carriers performed worse on long-delay free word recall. DISCUSSION These findings provide evidence that APOE-ε4 is linked to hippocampal atrophy and learning/memory phenotypes across the AD/DLB spectrum, which could be useful as biomarkers of disease progression in therapeutic trials of mixed disease.
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- Usman Saeed
- Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Anatomical Pathology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Data Science Institute and Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Reduced substantia innominata volume mediates contributions of microvascular and macrovascular disease to cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol Aging 2018; 66:23-31. [PMID: 29505952 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.01.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2017] [Revised: 01/29/2018] [Accepted: 01/31/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The relationships between cholinergic system damage and cerebrovascular disease are not entirely understood. Here, we investigate associations between atrophy of the substantia innominata (SI; the origin of cortical cholinergic projections) and measures of large and small vessel disease; specifically, elongation of the juxtaposed internal carotid artery termination and Cholinergic Pathways Hyperintensity scores (CHIPS). The study (n = 105) consisted of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and/or subcortical ischemic vasculopathy, and elderly controls. AD and subcortical ischemic vasculopathy groups showed greater impingement of the carotid termination on the SI and smaller SI volumes. Both carotid termination elongation and CHIPS were associated independently with smaller SI volumes in those with and without AD. Atrophy of the SI mediated effects of carotid termination elongation on language and memory functions and the effect of CHIPS on attention/working memory. In conclusion, SI atrophy was related to cerebrovascular disease of the large and small vessels and to cognitive deficits in people with and without AD.
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Mirzaei G, Adeli A, Adeli H. Imaging and machine learning techniques for diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Rev Neurosci 2018; 27:857-870. [PMID: 27518905 DOI: 10.1515/revneuro-2016-0029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2016] [Accepted: 06/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common health problem in elderly people. There has been considerable research toward the diagnosis and early detection of this disease in the past decade. The sensitivity of biomarkers and the accuracy of the detection techniques have been defined to be the key to an accurate diagnosis. This paper presents a state-of-the-art review of the research performed on the diagnosis of AD based on imaging and machine learning techniques. Different segmentation and machine learning techniques used for the diagnosis of AD are reviewed including thresholding, supervised and unsupervised learning, probabilistic techniques, Atlas-based approaches, and fusion of different image modalities. More recent and powerful classification techniques such as the enhanced probabilistic neural network of Ahmadlou and Adeli should be investigated with the goal of improving the diagnosis accuracy. A combination of different image modalities can help improve the diagnosis accuracy rate. Research is needed on the combination of modalities to discover multi-modal biomarkers.
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Chang C, Huang C, Zhou N, Li SX, Ver Hoef L, Gao Y. The bumps under the hippocampus. Hum Brain Mapp 2017; 39:472-490. [PMID: 29058349 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2017] [Revised: 10/09/2017] [Accepted: 10/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Shown in every neuroanatomy textbook, a key morphological feature is the bumpy ridges, which we refer to as hippocampal dentation, on the inferior aspect of the hippocampus. Like the folding of the cerebral cortex, hippocampal dentation allows for greater surface area in a confined space. However, examining numerous approaches to hippocampal segmentation and morphology analysis, virtually all published 3D renderings of the hippocampus show the inferior surface to be quite smooth or mildly irregular; we have rarely seen the characteristic bumpy structure on reconstructed 3D surfaces. The only exception is a 9.4T postmortem study (Yushkevich et al. [2009]: NeuroImage 44:385-398). An apparent question is, does this indicate that this specific morphological signature can only be captured using ultra high-resolution techniques? Or, is such information buried in the data we commonly acquire, awaiting a computation technique that can extract and render it clearly? In this study, we propose an automatic and robust super-resolution technique that captures the fine scale morphometric features of the hippocampus based on common 3T MR images. The method is validated on 9.4T ultra-high field images and then applied on 3T data sets. This method opens possibilities of future research on the hippocampus and other sub-cortical structural morphometry correlating the degree of dentation with a range of diseases including epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, and schizophrenia. Hum Brain Mapp 39:472-490, 2018. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Cheng Chang
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 11794
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- Department of Radiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 11794.,Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 11794
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 11794
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- Department of Neurology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, CIRC 312, Birmingham, Alabama, 35294.,Epilepsy center, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, CIRC 312, Birmingham, Alabama, 35294
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China.,Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Shenzhen, 518060, China.,Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 11794
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Edwards JD, Ramirez J, Callahan BL, Tobe SW, Oh P, Berezuk C, Lanctôt K, Swardfager W, Nestor S, Kiss A, Strother S, Black SE. Antihypertensive Treatment is associated with MRI-Derived Markers of Neurodegeneration and Impaired Cognition: A Propensity-Weighted Cohort Study. J Alzheimers Dis 2017; 59:1113-1122. [DOI: 10.3233/jad-170238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- Jodi D. Edwards
- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute>, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Heart & Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Site, Toronto, Canada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute>, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Heart & Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Site, Toronto, Canada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute>, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, Canada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute>, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Heart & Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Site, Toronto, Canada
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- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute>, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Geriatric Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute>, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Heart & Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Site, Toronto, Canada
- Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Rotman Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute>, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Heart & Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Site, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Medicine (Neurology), Sunnybrook Health Sciences and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Sankar T, Park MTM, Jawa T, Patel R, Bhagwat N, Voineskos AN, Lozano AM, Chakravarty MM. Your algorithm might think the hippocampus grows in Alzheimer's disease: Caveats of longitudinal automated hippocampal volumetry. Hum Brain Mapp 2017; 38:2875-2896. [PMID: 28295799 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2015] [Revised: 01/31/2017] [Accepted: 02/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Hippocampal atrophy rate-measured using automated techniques applied to structural MRI scans-is considered a sensitive marker of disease progression in Alzheimer's disease, frequently used as an outcome measure in clinical trials. Using publicly accessible data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), we examined 1-year hippocampal atrophy rates generated by each of five automated or semiautomated hippocampal segmentation algorithms in patients with Alzheimer's disease, subjects with mild cognitive impairment, or elderly controls. We analyzed MRI data from 398 and 62 subjects available at baseline and at 1 year at MRI field strengths of 1.5 T and 3 T, respectively. We observed a high rate of hippocampal segmentation failures across all algorithms and diagnostic categories, with only 50.8% of subjects at 1.5 T and 58.1% of subjects at 3 T passing stringent segmentation quality control. We also found that all algorithms identified several subjects (between 2.94% and 48.68%) across all diagnostic categories showing increases in hippocampal volume over 1 year. For any given algorithm, hippocampal "growth" could not entirely be explained by excluding patients with flawed hippocampal segmentations, scan-rescan variability, or MRI field strength. Furthermore, different algorithms did not uniformly identify the same subjects as hippocampal "growers," and showed very poor concordance in estimates of magnitude of hippocampal volume change over time (intraclass correlation coefficient 0.319 at 1.5 T and 0.149 at 3 T). This precluded a meaningful analysis of whether hippocampal "growth" represents a true biological phenomenon. Taken together, our findings suggest that longitudinal hippocampal volume change should be interpreted with considerable caution as a biomarker. Hum Brain Mapp 38:2875-2896, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Tejas Sankar
- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
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- Cerebral Imaging Centre, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Cerebral Imaging Centre, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Biological and Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Cerebral Imaging Centre, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Kimel Family Translational Imaging Genetics Research Laboratory, Campbell Family Mental Health Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Biological and Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Kimel Family Translational Imaging Genetics Research Laboratory, Campbell Family Mental Health Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Cerebral Imaging Centre, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Biological and Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Wolf D, Bocchetta M, Preboske GM, Boccardi M, Grothe MJ. Reference standard space hippocampus labels according to the European Alzheimer's Disease Consortium-Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative harmonized protocol: Utility in automated volumetry. Alzheimers Dement 2017; 13:893-902. [PMID: 28238738 DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2017.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Revised: 11/14/2016] [Accepted: 01/02/2017] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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INTRODUCTION A harmonized protocol (HarP) for manual hippocampal segmentation on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has recently been developed by an international European Alzheimer's Disease Consortium-Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative project. We aimed at providing consensual certified HarP hippocampal labels in Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) standard space to serve as reference in automated image analyses. METHODS Manual HarP tracings on the high-resolution MNI152 standard space template of four expert certified HarP tracers were combined to obtain consensual bilateral hippocampus labels. Utility and validity of these reference labels is demonstrated in a simple atlas-based morphometry approach for automated calculation of HarP-compliant hippocampal volumes within SPM software. RESULTS Individual tracings showed very high agreement among the four expert tracers (pairwise Jaccard indices 0.82-0.87). Automatically calculated hippocampal volumes were highly correlated (rL/R = 0.89/0.91) with gold standard volumes in the HarP benchmark data set (N = 135 MRIs), with a mean volume difference of 9% (standard deviation 7%). CONCLUSION The consensual HarP hippocampus labels in the MNI152 template can serve as a reference standard for automated image analyses involving MNI standard space normalization.
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- Dominik Wolf
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
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- Laboratory of Alzheimer's Neuroimaging and Epidemiology, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy; Dementia Research Centre, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Laboratory of Alzheimer's Neuroimaging and Epidemiology, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy; LANVIE-Laboratory of Neuroimaging of Aging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Clinical Dementia Research Group, Rostock, Germany.
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Platero C, Tobar MC. Combining a Patch-based Approach with a Non-rigid Registration-based Label Fusion Method for the Hippocampal Segmentation in Alzheimer’s Disease. Neuroinformatics 2017; 15:165-183. [DOI: 10.1007/s12021-017-9323-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Nestor SM, Mišić B, Ramirez J, Zhao J, Graham SJ, Verhoeff NPLG, Stuss DT, Masellis M, Black SE. Small vessel disease is linked to disrupted structural network covariance in Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement 2017; 13:749-760. [PMID: 28137552 DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2016.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2016] [Revised: 12/13/2016] [Accepted: 12/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is thought to contribute to Alzheimer's disease (AD) through abnormalities in white matter networks. Gray matter (GM) hub covariance networks share only partial overlap with white matter connectivity, and their relationship with SVD has not been examined in AD. METHODS We developed a multivariate analytical pipeline to elucidate the cortical GM thickness systems that covary with major network hubs and assessed whether SVD and neurodegenerative pathologic markers were associated with attenuated covariance network integrity in mild AD and normal elderly control subjects. RESULTS SVD burden was associated with reduced posterior cingulate corticocortical GM network integrity and subneocorticocortical hub network integrity in AD. DISCUSSION These findings provide evidence that SVD is linked to the selective disruption of cortical hub GM networks in AD brains and point to the need to consider GM hub covariance networks when assessing network disruption in mixed disease.
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- Sean M Nestor
- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Ontario, Canada; Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Ontario, Canada; Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; MD/PhD Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, IN, USA
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Ontario, Canada; Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Ontario, Canada; Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Ontario, Canada; Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Ontario, Canada
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- Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Ontario, Canada; Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Baycrest Health Sciences Centre and University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences Centre, Ontario, Canada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Ontario, Canada; Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Ontario, Canada; Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medicine, Neurology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Ontario, Canada; Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Ontario, Canada; Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences Centre, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medicine, Neurology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Ontario Brain Institute, Ontario, Canada
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AbstractBecause individuals develop dementia as a manifestation of neurodegenerative or neurovascular disorder, there is a need to develop reliable approaches to their identification. We are undertaking an observational study (Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative [ONDRI]) that includes genomics, neuroimaging, and assessments of cognition as well as language, speech, gait, retinal imaging, and eye tracking. Disorders studied include Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and vascular cognitive impairment. Data from ONDRI will be collected into the Brain-CODE database to facilitate correlative analysis. ONDRI will provide a repertoire of endophenotyped individuals that will be a unique, publicly available resource.
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Lam B, Khan A, Keith J, Rogaeva E, Bilbao J, St. George‐Hyslop P, Ghani M, Freedman M, Stuss DT, Chow T, Black SE, Masellis M. Characterizing familial corticobasal syndrome due to Alzheimer's disease pathology and
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mutations. Alzheimers Dement 2016; 13:520-530. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2016.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2016] [Revised: 08/08/2016] [Accepted: 08/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Benjamin Lam
- L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre University of Toronto Toronto Ontario 33
- Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Ziauddin University Karachi Pakistan
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- Department of Anatomical Pathology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Department of Anatomical Pathology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease Toronto Ontario Canada
- Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Department of Clinical Neurosciences University of Cambridge Cambridge UK
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- Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Sam and Ida Ross Memory Clinic Baycrest Toronto Ontario Canada
- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Toronto Dementia Research Alliance Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Department of Psychology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Ontario Brain Institute Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Sam and Ida Ross Memory Clinic Baycrest Toronto Ontario Canada
- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre University of Toronto Toronto Ontario 33
- Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Toronto Dementia Research Alliance Toronto Ontario Canada
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- L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre University of Toronto Toronto Ontario 33
- Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Toronto Dementia Research Alliance Toronto Ontario Canada
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Hosseini MP, Nazem-Zadeh MR, Pompili D, Jafari-Khouzani K, Elisevich K, Soltanian-Zadeh H. Comparative performance evaluation of automated segmentation methods of hippocampus from magnetic resonance images of temporal lobe epilepsy patients. Med Phys 2016; 43:538. [PMID: 26745947 DOI: 10.1118/1.4938411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Segmentation of the hippocampus from magnetic resonance (MR) images is a key task in the evaluation of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE) patients. Several automated algorithms have been proposed although manual segmentation remains the benchmark. Choosing a reliable algorithm is problematic since structural definition pertaining to multiple edges, missing and fuzzy boundaries, and shape changes varies among mTLE subjects. Lack of statistical references and guidance for quantifying the reliability and reproducibility of automated techniques has further detracted from automated approaches. The purpose of this study was to develop a systematic and statistical approach using a large dataset for the evaluation of automated methods and establish a method that would achieve results better approximating those attained by manual tracing in the epileptogenic hippocampus. METHODS A template database of 195 (81 males, 114 females; age range 32-67 yr, mean 49.16 yr) MR images of mTLE patients was used in this study. Hippocampal segmentation was accomplished manually and by two well-known tools (FreeSurfer and hammer) and two previously published methods developed at their institution [Automatic brain structure segmentation (ABSS) and LocalInfo]. To establish which method was better performing for mTLE cases, several voxel-based, distance-based, and volume-based performance metrics were considered. Statistical validations of the results using automated techniques were compared with the results of benchmark manual segmentation. Extracted metrics were analyzed to find the method that provided a more similar result relative to the benchmark. RESULTS Among the four automated methods, ABSS generated the most accurate results. For this method, the Dice coefficient was 5.13%, 14.10%, and 16.67% higher, Hausdorff was 22.65%, 86.73%, and 69.58% lower, precision was 4.94%, -4.94%, and 12.35% higher, and the root mean square (RMS) was 19.05%, 61.90%, and 65.08% lower than LocalInfo, FreeSurfer, and hammer, respectively. The Bland-Altman similarity analysis revealed a low bias for the ABSS and LocalInfo techniques compared to the others. CONCLUSIONS The ABSS method for automated hippocampal segmentation outperformed other methods, best approximating what could be achieved by manual tracing. This study also shows that four categories of input data can cause automated segmentation methods to fail. They include incomplete studies, artifact, low signal-to-noise ratio, and inhomogeneity. Different scanner platforms and pulse sequences were considered as means by which to improve reliability of the automated methods. Other modifications were specially devised to enhance a particular method assessed in this study.
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- Mohammad-Parsa Hosseini
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08854 and Medical Image Analysis Laboratory, Departments of Radiology and Research Administration, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan 48202
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- Medical Image Analysis Laboratory, Departments of Radiology and Research Administration, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan 48202
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08854
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02129
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Spectrum Health System, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503 and Division of Neurosurgery, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503
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- Medical Image Analysis Laboratory, Departments of Radiology and Research Administration, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan 48202; Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence (CIPCE), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran 1439957131, Iran; and School of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran 1954856316, Iran
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A fast approach for hippocampal segmentation from T1-MRI for predicting progression in Alzheimer's disease from elderly controls. J Neurosci Methods 2016; 270:61-75. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2016.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2016] [Revised: 06/14/2016] [Accepted: 06/15/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Pini L, Pievani M, Bocchetta M, Altomare D, Bosco P, Cavedo E, Galluzzi S, Marizzoni M, Frisoni GB. Brain atrophy in Alzheimer's Disease and aging. Ageing Res Rev 2016; 30:25-48. [PMID: 26827786 DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2016.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 438] [Impact Index Per Article: 54.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2015] [Revised: 01/15/2016] [Accepted: 01/20/2016] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Thanks to its safety and accessibility, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is extensively used in clinical routine and research field, largely contributing to our understanding of the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the main findings in AD and normal aging over the past twenty years, focusing on the patterns of gray and white matter changes assessed in vivo using MRI. Major progresses in the field concern the segmentation of the hippocampus with novel manual and automatic segmentation approaches, which might soon enable to assess also hippocampal subfields. Advancements in quantification of hippocampal volumetry might pave the way to its broader use as outcome marker in AD clinical trials. Patterns of cortical atrophy have been shown to accurately track disease progression and seem promising in distinguishing among AD subtypes. Disease progression has also been associated with changes in white matter tracts. Recent studies have investigated two areas often overlooked in AD, such as the striatum and basal forebrain, reporting significant atrophy, although the impact of these changes on cognition is still unclear. Future integration of different MRI modalities may further advance the field by providing more powerful biomarkers of disease onset and progression.
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- Lorenzo Pini
- Laboratory Alzheimer's Neuroimaging & Epidemiology, IRCCS Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy; Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Laboratory Alzheimer's Neuroimaging & Epidemiology, IRCCS Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy
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- Laboratory Alzheimer's Neuroimaging & Epidemiology, IRCCS Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy; Dementia Research Centre, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Laboratory Alzheimer's Neuroimaging & Epidemiology, IRCCS Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy; Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Laboratory Alzheimer's Neuroimaging & Epidemiology, IRCCS Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy
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- Laboratory Alzheimer's Neuroimaging & Epidemiology, IRCCS Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy; Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 06, Institut de la Mémoire et de la Maladie d'Alzheimer (IM2A) Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpétrière & Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), UMR S 1127, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpétrière Paris & CATI Multicenter Neuroimaging Platform, France
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- Laboratory Alzheimer's Neuroimaging & Epidemiology, IRCCS Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy
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- Laboratory Alzheimer's Neuroimaging & Epidemiology, IRCCS Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy
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- Laboratory Alzheimer's Neuroimaging & Epidemiology, IRCCS Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy; Memory Clinic and LANVIE-Laboratory of Neuroimaging of Aging, University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Feng Y, Kawrakow I, Olsen J, Parikh PJ, Noel C, Wooten O, Du D, Mutic S, Hu Y. A comparative study of automatic image segmentation algorithms for target tracking in MR-IGRT. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2016; 17:441-460. [PMID: 27074465 PMCID: PMC5875567 DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v17i2.5820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2015] [Revised: 11/18/2015] [Accepted: 11/11/2015] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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On-board magnetic resonance (MR) image guidance during radiation therapy offers the potential for more accurate treatment delivery. To utilize the real-time image information, a crucial prerequisite is the ability to successfully segment and track regions of interest (ROI). The purpose of this work is to evaluate the performance of different segmentation algorithms using motion images (4 frames per second) acquired using a MR image-guided radiotherapy (MR-IGRT) system. Manual con-tours of the kidney, bladder, duodenum, and a liver tumor by an experienced radiation oncologist were used as the ground truth for performance evaluation. Besides the manual segmentation, images were automatically segmented using thresholding, fuzzy k-means (FKM), k-harmonic means (KHM), and reaction-diffusion level set evolution (RD-LSE) algorithms, as well as the tissue tracking algorithm provided by the ViewRay treatment planning and delivery system (VR-TPDS). The performance of the five algorithms was evaluated quantitatively by comparing with the manual segmentation using the Dice coefficient and target registration error (TRE) measured as the distance between the centroid of the manual ROI and the centroid of the automatically segmented ROI. All methods were able to successfully segment the bladder and the kidney, but only FKM, KHM, and VR-TPDS were able to segment the liver tumor and the duodenum. The performance of the thresholding, FKM, KHM, and RD-LSE algorithms degraded as the local image contrast decreased, whereas the performance of the VP-TPDS method was nearly independent of local image contrast due to the reference registration algorithm. For segmenting high-contrast images (i.e., kidney), the thresholding method provided the best speed (< 1 ms) with a satisfying accuracy (Dice = 0.95). When the image contrast was low, the VR-TPDS method had the best automatic contour. Results suggest an image quality determination procedure before segmentation and a combination of different methods for optimal segmentation with the on-board MR-IGRT system.
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- Yuan Feng
- Soochow University; Washington University School of Medicine; University of Texas at Austin.
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Ardekani BA, Convit A, Bachman AH. Analysis of the MIRIAD Data Shows Sex Differences in Hippocampal Atrophy Progression. J Alzheimers Dis 2016; 50:847-57. [DOI: 10.3233/jad-150780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- Babak A. Ardekani
- The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
- Departments of Psychiatry, Medicine and Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
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Callahan BL, Ramirez J, Berezuk C, Duchesne S, Black SE. Predicting Alzheimer's disease development: a comparison of cognitive criteria and associated neuroimaging biomarkers. ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH & THERAPY 2015; 7:68. [PMID: 26537709 PMCID: PMC4634913 DOI: 10.1186/s13195-015-0152-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2015] [Accepted: 09/30/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Introduction The definition of “objective cognitive impairment” in current criteria for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) varies considerably between research groups and clinics. This study aims to compare different methods of defining memory impairment to improve prediction models for the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) from baseline to 24 months. Methods The sensitivity and specificity of six methods of defining episodic memory impairment (< −1, −1.5 or −2 standard deviations [SD] on one or two memory tests) were compared in 494 non-demented seniors from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative using the area under the curve (AUC) for receiver operating characteristic analysis. The added value of non-memory measures (language and executive function) and biomarkers (hippocampal and white-matter hyperintensity volume, brain parenchymal fraction [BPF], and APOEε4 status) was investigated using logistic regression. Results Baseline scores < −1 SD on two memory tests predicted AD with 75.91 % accuracy (AUC = 0.80). Only APOE ε4 status further improved prediction (B = 1.10, SE = 0.45, p = .016). A < −1.5 SD cut-off on one test had 66.60 % accuracy (AUC = 0.77). Prediction was further improved using Trails B/A ratio (B = 0.27, SE = 0.13, p = .033), BPF (B = −15.97, SE = 7.58, p = .035), and APOEε4 status (B = 1.08, SE = 0.45, p = .017). A cut-off of < −2 SD on one memory test (AUC = 0.77, SE = 0.03, 95 % CI 0.72-0.82) had 76.52 % accuracy in predicting AD. Trails B/A ratio (B = 0.31, SE = 0.13, p = .017) and APOE ε4 status (B = 1.07, SE = 0.46, p = .019) improved predictive accuracy. Conclusions Episodic memory impairment in MCI should be defined as scores < −1 SD below normative references on at least two measures. Clinicians or researchers who administer a single test should opt for a more stringent cut-off and collect and analyze whole-brain volume. When feasible, ascertaining APOE ε4 status can further improve prediction.
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- Brandy L Callahan
- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Rm A4 21, Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3 M5, Canada. .,Heart & Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership in Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada. .,Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada. .,Université Laval, Faculté de médecine (Radiologie), Québec, Canada. .,Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Québec, Québec, Canada.
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Rm A4 21, Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3 M5, Canada. .,Heart & Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership in Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada. .,Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada.
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Rm A4 21, Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3 M5, Canada. .,Heart & Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership in Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada. .,Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada.
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- Université Laval, Faculté de médecine (Radiologie), Québec, Canada. .,Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Québec, Québec, Canada.
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- LC Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Rm A4 21, Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3 M5, Canada. .,Heart & Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership in Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada. .,Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada. .,Department of Medicine (Neurology), University of Toronto, Institute of Medical Science, Québec, Canada.
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Amoroso N, Errico R, Bruno S, Chincarini A, Garuccio E, Sensi F, Tangaro S, Tateo A, Bellotti R. Hippocampal unified multi-atlas network (HUMAN): protocol and scale validation of a novel segmentation tool. Phys Med Biol 2015; 60:8851-67. [PMID: 26531765 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/60/22/8851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Weiner MW, Veitch DP, Aisen PS, Beckett LA, Cairns NJ, Cedarbaum J, Green RC, Harvey D, Jack CR, Jagust W, Luthman J, Morris JC, Petersen RC, Saykin AJ, Shaw L, Shen L, Schwarz A, Toga AW, Trojanowski JQ. 2014 Update of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: A review of papers published since its inception. Alzheimers Dement 2015; 11:e1-120. [PMID: 26073027 PMCID: PMC5469297 DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2014.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 203] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 04/18/2013] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is an ongoing, longitudinal, multicenter study designed to develop clinical, imaging, genetic, and biochemical biomarkers for the early detection and tracking of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The initial study, ADNI-1, enrolled 400 subjects with early mild cognitive impairment (MCI), 200 with early AD, and 200 cognitively normal elderly controls. ADNI-1 was extended by a 2-year Grand Opportunities grant in 2009 and by a competitive renewal, ADNI-2, which enrolled an additional 550 participants and will run until 2015. This article reviews all papers published since the inception of the initiative and summarizes the results to the end of 2013. The major accomplishments of ADNI have been as follows: (1) the development of standardized methods for clinical tests, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers in a multicenter setting; (2) elucidation of the patterns and rates of change of imaging and CSF biomarker measurements in control subjects, MCI patients, and AD patients. CSF biomarkers are largely consistent with disease trajectories predicted by β-amyloid cascade (Hardy, J Alzheimer's Dis 2006;9(Suppl 3):151-3) and tau-mediated neurodegeneration hypotheses for AD, whereas brain atrophy and hypometabolism levels show predicted patterns but exhibit differing rates of change depending on region and disease severity; (3) the assessment of alternative methods of diagnostic categorization. Currently, the best classifiers select and combine optimum features from multiple modalities, including MRI, [(18)F]-fluorodeoxyglucose-PET, amyloid PET, CSF biomarkers, and clinical tests; (4) the development of blood biomarkers for AD as potentially noninvasive and low-cost alternatives to CSF biomarkers for AD diagnosis and the assessment of α-syn as an additional biomarker; (5) the development of methods for the early detection of AD. CSF biomarkers, β-amyloid 42 and tau, as well as amyloid PET may reflect the earliest steps in AD pathology in mildly symptomatic or even nonsymptomatic subjects and are leading candidates for the detection of AD in its preclinical stages; (6) the improvement of clinical trial efficiency through the identification of subjects most likely to undergo imminent future clinical decline and the use of more sensitive outcome measures to reduce sample sizes. Multimodal methods incorporating APOE status and longitudinal MRI proved most highly predictive of future decline. Refinements of clinical tests used as outcome measures such as clinical dementia rating-sum of boxes further reduced sample sizes; (7) the pioneering of genome-wide association studies that leverage quantitative imaging and biomarker phenotypes, including longitudinal data, to confirm recently identified loci, CR1, CLU, and PICALM and to identify novel AD risk loci; (8) worldwide impact through the establishment of ADNI-like programs in Japan, Australia, Argentina, Taiwan, China, Korea, Europe, and Italy; (9) understanding the biology and pathobiology of normal aging, MCI, and AD through integration of ADNI biomarker and clinical data to stimulate research that will resolve controversies about competing hypotheses on the etiopathogenesis of AD, thereby advancing efforts to find disease-modifying drugs for AD; and (10) the establishment of infrastructure to allow sharing of all raw and processed data without embargo to interested scientific investigators throughout the world.
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- Michael W Weiner
- Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, San Francisco, CA, USA; Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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- Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA; Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA
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- Neurology Early Clinical Development, Biogen Idec, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Neuroscience Clinical Development, Neuroscience & General Medicine Product Creation Unit, Eisai Inc., Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Tailored Therapeutics, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Laboratory of Neuroimaging, Institute of Neuroimaging and Informatics, Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Institute on Aging, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Alzheimer's Disease Core Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Udall Parkinson's Research Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Center for Neurodegenerative Research, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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A label fusion method using conditional random fields with higher-order potentials: Application to hippocampal segmentation. Artif Intell Med 2015; 64:117-29. [DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2015.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2014] [Revised: 01/21/2015] [Accepted: 04/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Hill DLG, Schwarz AJ, Isaac M, Pani L, Vamvakas S, Hemmings R, Carrillo MC, Yu P, Sun J, Beckett L, Boccardi M, Brewer J, Brumfield M, Cantillon M, Cole PE, Fox N, Frisoni GB, Jack C, Kelleher T, Luo F, Novak G, Maguire P, Meibach R, Patterson P, Bain L, Sampaio C, Raunig D, Soares H, Suhy J, Wang H, Wolz R, Stephenson D. Coalition Against Major Diseases/European Medicines Agency biomarker qualification of hippocampal volume for enrichment of clinical trials in predementia stages of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement 2015; 10:421-429.e3. [PMID: 24985687 DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2013.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2013] [Revised: 06/26/2013] [Accepted: 07/23/2013] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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BACKGROUND Regulatory qualification of a biomarker for a defined context of use provides scientifically robust assurances to sponsors and regulators that accelerate appropriate adoption of biomarkers into drug development. METHODS The Coalition Against Major Diseases submitted a dossier to the Scientific Advice Working Party of the European Medicines Agency requesting a qualification opinion on the use of hippocampal volume as a biomarker for enriching clinical trials in subjects with mild cognitive impairment, incorporating a scientific rationale, a literature review and a de novo analysis of Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative data. RESULTS The literature review and de novo analysis were consistent with the proposed context of use, and the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use released an opinion in November 2011. CONCLUSIONS We summarize the scientific rationale and the data that supported the first qualification of an imaging biomarker by the European Medicines Agency.
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- European Medicines Agency, London, UK
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- Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA; The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, USA
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- Coalition Against Major Diseases, Critical Path Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Bristol Myers Squibb, Wallingford, CT, USA
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- Janssen Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Titusville, NJ, USA
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- Independent science writer, Elverson, PA, USA
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- IXICO Ltd., London, UK; Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Coalition Against Major Diseases, Critical Path Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA.
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Maruszak A, Thuret S. Why looking at the whole hippocampus is not enough-a critical role for anteroposterior axis, subfield and activation analyses to enhance predictive value of hippocampal changes for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. Front Cell Neurosci 2014; 8:95. [PMID: 24744700 PMCID: PMC3978283 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2013] [Accepted: 03/13/2014] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The hippocampus is one of the earliest affected brain regions in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its dysfunction is believed to underlie the core feature of the disease-memory impairment. Given that hippocampal volume is one of the best AD biomarkers, our review focuses on distinct subfields within the hippocampus, pinpointing regions that might enhance the predictive value of current diagnostic methods. Our review presents how changes in hippocampal volume, shape, symmetry and activation are reflected by cognitive impairment and how they are linked with neurogenesis alterations. Moreover, we revisit the functional differentiation along the anteroposterior longitudinal axis of the hippocampus and discuss its relevance for AD diagnosis. Finally, we indicate that apart from hippocampal subfield volumetry, the characteristic pattern of hippocampal hyperactivation associated with seizures and neurogenesis changes is another promising candidate for an early AD biomarker that could become also a target for early interventions.
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- Aleksandra Maruszak
- Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour, Department of Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College LondonLondon, UK
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- Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour, Department of Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College LondonLondon, UK
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Ma D, Cardoso MJ, Modat M, Powell N, Wells J, Holmes H, Wiseman F, Tybulewicz V, Fisher E, Lythgoe MF, Ourselin S. Automatic structural parcellation of mouse brain MRI using multi-atlas label fusion. PLoS One 2014; 9:e86576. [PMID: 24475148 PMCID: PMC3903537 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2013] [Accepted: 12/13/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Multi-atlas segmentation propagation has evolved quickly in recent years, becoming a state-of-the-art methodology for automatic parcellation of structural images. However, few studies have applied these methods to preclinical research. In this study, we present a fully automatic framework for mouse brain MRI structural parcellation using multi-atlas segmentation propagation. The framework adopts the similarity and truth estimation for propagated segmentations (STEPS) algorithm, which utilises a locally normalised cross correlation similarity metric for atlas selection and an extended simultaneous truth and performance level estimation (STAPLE) framework for multi-label fusion. The segmentation accuracy of the multi-atlas framework was evaluated using publicly available mouse brain atlas databases with pre-segmented manually labelled anatomical structures as the gold standard, and optimised parameters were obtained for the STEPS algorithm in the label fusion to achieve the best segmentation accuracy. We showed that our multi-atlas framework resulted in significantly higher segmentation accuracy compared to single-atlas based segmentation, as well as to the original STAPLE framework.
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- Da Ma
- Centre for Medical Imaging Computing, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
- Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Medical Imaging Computing, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Medical Imaging Computing, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Medical Imaging Computing, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
- Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
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- Division of Immune Cell Biology, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, England, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Medical Imaging Computing, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
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Gao FQ, Pettersen JA, Bocti C, Nestor SM, Kiss A, Black SE. Is encroachment of the carotid termination into the substantia innominata associated with its atrophy and cognition in Alzheimer's disease? Neurobiol Aging 2013; 34:1807-14. [PMID: 23414670 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2013.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2012] [Revised: 01/16/2013] [Accepted: 01/20/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
Abstract
The internal carotid artery termination (CAT) ends in a T-shaped bifurcation just below the substantia innominata (SI), which contains cognitively strategic cholinergic neurons and undergoes atrophy in Alzheimer's disease (AD). This study investigated whether an elongated CAT with possible resulting encroachment into the SI would correlate with SI atrophy and with cognitive dysfunction in AD. We rated the degree of CAT encroachment upon the SI and measured SI volume on magnetic resonance imaging in 30 AD patients, 30 AD patients with subcortical small vessel disease, and 30 age-matched controls. CAT encroachment significantly correlated with SI volume after adjusting for age within the overall group and the groups with dementia. AD patients with higher CAT encroachment scores had lower SI volumes and lower attention, memory, and executive test scores. These data suggest that CAT encroachment may mechanically injure the SI, exacerbating cholinergic damage and contributing to cognitive impairment. This process may represent a possible previously underappreciated mechanism for interaction between large-vessel cerebrovascular disease and AD.
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Affiliation(s)
- Fu-qiang Gao
- Linda C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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