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Cui W, Akrami H, Zhao G, Joshi AA, Leahy RM. Meta Transfer of Self-Supervised Knowledge: Foundation Model in Action for Post-Traumatic Epilepsy Prediction. ArXiv 2023:arXiv:2312.14204v1. [PMID: 38196751 PMCID: PMC10775348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2024]
Abstract
Despite the impressive advancements achieved using deep-learning for functional brain activity analysis, the heterogeneity of functional patterns and scarcity of imaging data still pose challenges in tasks such as prediction of future onset of Post-Traumatic Epilepsy (PTE) from data acquired shortly after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Foundation models pre-trained on separate large-scale datasets can improve the performance from scarce and heterogeneous datasets. For functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), while data may be abundantly available from healthy controls, clinical data is often scarce, limiting the ability of foundation models to identify clinically-relevant features. We overcome this limitation by introducing a novel training strategy for our foundation model by integrating meta-learning with self-supervised learning to improve the generalization from normal to clinical features. In this way we enable generalization to other downstream clinical tasks, in our case prediction of PTE. To achieve this, we perform self-supervised training on the control dataset to focus on inherent features that are not limited to a particular supervised task while applying meta-learning, which strongly improves the model's generalizability using bi-level optimization. Through experiments on neurological disorder classification tasks, we demonstrate that the proposed strategy significantly improves task performance on small-scale clinical datasets. To explore the generalizability of the foundation model in downstream applications, we then apply the model to an unseen TBI dataset for prediction of PTE using zero-shot learning. Results further demonstrated the enhanced generalizability of our foundation model.
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Affiliation(s)
- Wenhui Cui
- Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089, United States
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- Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089, United States
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- Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089, United States
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- Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089, United States
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- Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089, United States
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Feng Y, Chandio BQ, Villalón-Reina JE, Thomopoulos SI, Joshi H, Nair G, Joshi AA, Venkatasubramanian G, John JP, Thompson PM. BundleCleaner: Unsupervised Denoising and Subsampling of Diffusion MRI-Derived Tractography Data. bioRxiv 2023:2023.08.19.553990. [PMID: 37662361 PMCID: PMC10473583 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.19.553990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/05/2023]
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We present BundleCleaner, an unsupervised multi-step framework that can filter, denoise and subsample bundles derived from diffusion MRI-based whole-brain tractography. Our approach considers both the global bundle structure and local streamline-wise features. We apply BundleCleaner to bundles generated from single-shell diffusion MRI data in an independent clinical sample of older adults from India using probabilistic tractography and the resulting 'cleaned' bundles can better align with the atlas bundles with reduced overreach. In a downstream tractometry analysis, we show that the cleaned bundles, represented with less than 20% of the original set of points, can robustly localize along-tract microstructural differences between 32 healthy controls and 34 participants with Alzheimer's disease ranging in age from 55 to 84 years old. Our approach can help reduce memory burden and improving computational efficiency when working with tractography data, and shows promise for large-scale multi-site tractometry.
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- Yixue Feng
- Imaging Genetics Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, United States
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, United States
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, United States
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, United States
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- Multimodal Brain Image Analysis Laboratory, Translational Psychiatry Laboratory, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Multimodal Brain Image Analysis Laboratory, Translational Psychiatry Laboratory, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, Ming Hseih dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Multimodal Brain Image Analysis Laboratory, Translational Psychiatry Laboratory, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Multimodal Brain Image Analysis Laboratory, Translational Psychiatry Laboratory, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, United States
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Kim Y, Joshi AA, Choi S, Joshi SH, Bhushan C, Varadarajan D, Haldar JP, Leahy RM, Shattuck DW. BrainSuite BIDS App: Containerized Workflows for MRI Analysis. bioRxiv 2023:2023.03.14.532686. [PMID: 36993283 PMCID: PMC10055125 DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.14.532686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
Abstract
There has been a concerted effort by the neuroimaging community to establish standards for computational methods for data analysis that promote reproducibility and portability. In particular, the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) specifies a standard for storing imaging data, and the related BIDS App methodology provides a standard for implementing containerized processing environments that include all necessary dependencies to process BIDS datasets using image processing workflows. We present the BrainSuite BIDS App, which encapsulates the core MRI processing functionality of BrainSuite within the BIDS App framework. Specifically, the BrainSuite BIDS App implements a participant-level workflow comprising three pipelines and a corresponding set of group-level analysis workflows for processing the participant-level outputs. The BrainSuite Anatomical Pipeline (BAP) extracts cortical surface models from a T1-weighted (T1w) MRI. It then performs surface-constrained volumetric registration to align the T1w MRI to a labeled anatomical atlas, which is used to delineate anatomical regions of interest in the MRI brain volume and on the cortical surface models. The BrainSuite Diffusion Pipeline (BDP) processes diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) data, with steps that include coregistering the DWI data to the T1w scan, correcting for geometric image distortion, and fitting diffusion models to the DWI data. The BrainSuite Functional Pipeline (BFP) performs fMRI processing using a combination of FSL, AFNI, and BrainSuite tools. BFP coregisters the fMRI data to the T1w image, then transforms the data to the anatomical atlas space and to the Human Connectome Project's grayordinate space. Each of these outputs can then be processed during group-level analysis. The outputs of BAP and BDP are analyzed using the BrainSuite Statistics in R (bssr) toolbox, which provides functionality for hypothesis testing and statistical modeling. The outputs of BFP can be analyzed using atlas-based or atlas-free statistical methods during group-level processing. These analyses include the application of BrainSync, which synchronizes the time-series data temporally and enables comparison of resting-state or task-based fMRI data across scans. We also present the BrainSuite Dashboard quality control system, which provides a browser-based interface for reviewing the outputs of individual modules of the participant-level pipelines across a study in real-time as they are generated. BrainSuite Dashboard facilitates rapid review of intermediate results, enabling users to identify processing errors and make adjustments to processing parameters if necessary. The comprehensive functionality included in the BrainSuite BIDS App provides a mechanism for rapidly deploying the BrainSuite workflows into new environments to perform large-scale studies. We demonstrate the capabilities of the BrainSuite BIDS App using structural, diffusion, and functional MRI data from the Amsterdam Open MRI Collection's Population Imaging of Psychology dataset.
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- Yeun Kim
- Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, Department of Electrical Engineering – Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, Department of Electrical Engineering – Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, Department of Electrical Engineering – Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- GE Research, Schenectady, NY, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, Department of Electrical Engineering – Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, Department of Electrical Engineering – Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, Department of Electrical Engineering – Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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González-Zacarías C, Choi S, Vu C, Xu B, Shen J, Joshi AA, Leahy RM, Wood JC. Chronic anemia: The effects on the connectivity of white matter. Front Neurol 2022; 13:894742. [PMID: 35959402 PMCID: PMC9362738 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2022.894742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2022] [Accepted: 06/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
Abstract
Chronic anemia is commonly observed in patients with hemoglobinopathies, mainly represented by disorders of altered hemoglobin (Hb) structure (sickle cell disease, SCD) and impaired Hb synthesis (e.g. thalassemia syndromes, non-SCD anemia). Both hemoglobinopathies have been associated with white matter (WM) alterations. Novel structural MRI research in our laboratory demonstrated that WM volume was diffusely lower in deep, watershed areas proportional to anemia severity. Furthermore, diffusion tensor imaging analysis has provided evidence that WM microstructure is disrupted proportionally to Hb level and oxygen saturation. SCD patients have been widely studied and demonstrate lower fractional anisotropy (FA) in the corticospinal tract and cerebellum across the internal capsule and corpus callosum. In the present study, we compared 19 SCD and 15 non-SCD anemia patients with a wide range of Hb values allowing the characterization of the effects of chronic anemia in isolation of sickle Hb. We performed a tensor analysis to quantify FA changes in WM connectivity in chronic anemic patients. We calculated the volumetric mean of FA along the pathway of tracks connecting two regions of interest defined by BrainSuite's BCI-DNI atlas. In general, we found lower FA values in anemic patients; indicating the loss of coherence in the main diffusion direction that potentially indicates WM injury. We saw a positive correlation between FA and hemoglobin in these same regions, suggesting that decreased WM microstructural integrity FA is highly driven by chronic hypoxia. The only connection that did not follow this pattern was the connectivity within the left middle-inferior temporal gyrus. Interestingly, more reductions in FA were observed in non-SCD patients (mainly along with intrahemispheric WM bundles and watershed areas) than the SCD patients (mainly interhemispheric).
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- Clio González-Zacarías
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States,Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States,Department of Pediatrics and Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States,Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States,Department of Pediatrics and Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics and Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States,Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics and Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States,Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics and Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States,Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States,Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics and Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States,Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States,*Correspondence: John C. Wood
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Joshi AA, Choi S, Liu Y, Chong M, Sonkar G, Gonzalez-Martinez J, Nair D, Wisnowski JL, Haldar JP, Shattuck DW, Damasio H, Leahy RM. A hybrid high-resolution anatomical MRI atlas with sub-parcellation of cortical gyri using resting fMRI. J Neurosci Methods 2022; 374:109566. [PMID: 35306036 PMCID: PMC9302382 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2022.109566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2021] [Revised: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
We present a new high-quality, single-subject atlas with sub-millimeter voxel resolution, high SNR, and excellent gray-white tissue contrast to resolve fine anatomical details. The atlas is labeled into two parcellation schemes: 1) the anatomical BCI-DNI atlas, which is manually labeled based on known morphological and anatomical features, and 2) the hybrid USCBrain atlas, which incorporates functional information to guide the sub-parcellation of cerebral cortex. In both cases, we provide consistent volumetric and cortical surface-based parcellation and labeling. The intended use of the atlas is as a reference template for structural coregistration and labeling of individual brains. A single-subject T1-weighted image was acquired five times at a resolution of 0.547 mm × 0.547 mm × 0.800 mm and averaged. Images were processed by an expert neuroanatomist using semi-automated methods in BrainSuite to extract the brain, classify tissue-types, and render anatomical surfaces. Sixty-six cortical and 29 noncortical regions were manually labeled to generate the BCI-DNI atlas. The cortical regions were further sub-parcellated into 130 cortical regions based on multi-subject connectivity analysis using resting fMRI (rfMRI) data from the Human Connectome Project (HCP) database to produce the USCBrain atlas. In addition, we provide a delineation between sulcal valleys and gyral crowns, which offer an additional set of 26 sulcal subregions per hemisphere. Lastly, a probabilistic map is provided to give users a quantitative measure of reliability for each gyral subdivision. Utility of the atlas was assessed by computing Adjusted Rand Indices (ARIs) between individual sub-parcellations obtained through structural-only coregistration to the USCBrain atlas and sub-parcellations obtained directly from each subject's resting fMRI data. Both atlas parcellations can be used with the BrainSuite, FreeSurfer, and FSL software packages.
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Affiliation(s)
- Anand A. Joshi
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA,Correspondence to: Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, 3740 McClintock Avenue, EEB 426, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2560. (A.A. Joshi)
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA,Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Dept. of Computer Science, National Institute of Technology Warangal, India
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- Epilepsy Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center, University of Southern California, Los Angles, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center, University of Southern California, Los Angles, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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The presence of outliers can severely degrade learned representations and performance of deep learning methods and hence disproportionately affect the training process, leading to incorrect conclusions about the data. For example, anomaly detection using deep generative models is typically only possible when similar anomalies (or outliers) are not present in the training data. Here we focus on variational autoencoders (VAEs). While the VAE is a popular framework for anomaly detection tasks, we observe that the VAE is unable to detect outliers when the training data contains anomalies that have the same distribution as those in test data. In this paper we focus on robustness to outliers in training data in VAE settings using concepts from robust statistics. We propose a variational lower bound that leads to a robust VAE model that has the same computational complexity as the standard VAE and contains a single automatically-adjusted tuning parameter to control the degree of robustness. We present mathematical formulations for robust variational autoencoders (RVAEs) for Bernoulli, Gaussian and categorical variables. The RVAE model is based on beta-divergence rather than the standard Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. We demonstrate the performance of our proposed β-divergence-based autoencoder for a variety of image and categorical datasets showing improved robustness to outliers both qualitatively and quantitatively. We also illustrate the use of our robust VAE for detection of lesions in brain images, formulated as an anomaly detection task. Finally, we suggest a method to tune the hyperparameter of RVAE which makes our model completely unsupervised.
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Affiliation(s)
- Haleh Akrami
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Corresponding author. (H. Akrami)
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
- Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Akrami H, Joshi AA, Aydöre S, Leahy RM. Deep Quantile Regression for Uncertainty Estimation in Unsupervised and Supervised Lesion Detection. J Mach Learn Biomed Imaging 2022; 1:008. [PMID: 36712144 PMCID: PMC9881592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
Abstract
Despite impressive state-of-the-art performance on a wide variety of machine learning tasks in multiple applications, deep learning methods can produce over-confident predictions, particularly with limited training data. Therefore, quantifying uncertainty is particularly important in critical applications such as lesion detection and clinical diagnosis, where a realistic assessment of uncertainty is essential in determining surgical margins, disease status and appropriate treatment. In this work, we propose a novel approach that uses quantile regression for quantifying aleatoric uncertainty in both supervised and unsupervised lesion detection problems. The resulting confidence intervals can be used for lesion detection and segmentation. In the unsupervised setting, we combine quantile regression with the Variational AutoEncoder (VAE). The VAE is trained on lesion-free data, so when presented with an image with a lesion, it tends to reconstruct a lesion-free version of the image. To detect the lesion, we then compare the input (lesion) and output (lesion-free) images. Here we address the problem of quantifying uncertainty in the images that are reconstructed by the VAE as the basis for principled outlier or lesion detection. The VAE models the output as a conditionally independent Gaussian characterized by its mean and variance. Unfortunately, joint optimization of both mean and variance in the VAE leads to the well-known problem of shrinkage or underestimation of variance. Here we describe an alternative Quantile-Regression VAE (QR-VAE) that avoids this variance shrinkage problem by directly estimating conditional quantiles for the input image. Using the estimated quantiles, we compute the conditional mean and variance for the input image from which we then detect outliers by thresholding at a false-discovery-rate corrected p-value. In the supervised setting, we develop binary quantile regression (BQR) for the supervised lesion segmentation task. We show how BQR can be used to capture uncertainty in lesion boundaries in a manner that characterizes expert disagreement.
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- Haleh Akrami
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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Zhao Y, Joshi AA, Aldrich JV, Murray TF. Quantification of kappa opioid receptor ligand potency, efficacy and desensitization using a real-time membrane potential assay. Biomed Pharmacother 2021; 143:112173. [PMID: 34536757 PMCID: PMC8516733 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2021.112173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2021] [Revised: 09/02/2021] [Accepted: 09/05/2021] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
Abstract
We explored the utility of the real-time FLIPR Membrane Potential (FMP) assay as a method to assess kappa opioid receptor (KOR)-induced hyperpolarization. The FMP Blue dye was used to measure fluorescent signals reflecting changes in membrane potential in KOR expressing CHO (CHO-KOR) cells. Treatment of CHO-KOR cells with kappa agonists U50,488 or dynorphin [Dyn (1-13)NH2] produced rapid and concentration-dependent decreases in FMP Blue fluorescence reflecting membrane hyperpolarization. Both the nonselective opioid antagonist naloxone and the κ-selective antagonists nor-binaltorphimine (nor-BNI) and zyklophin produced rightward shifts in the U50,488 concentration-response curves, consistent with competitive antagonism of the KOR mediated response. The decrease in fluorescent emission produced by U50,488 was blocked by overnight pertussis toxin pretreatment, indicating the requirement for PTX-sensitive G proteins in the KOR mediated response. We directly compared the potency of U50,488 and Dyn (1-13)NH2 in the FMP and [35S]GTPγS binding assays, and found that both were approximately 10 times more potent in the cellular fluorescence assay. The maximum responses of both U50,488 and Dyn (1-13)NH2 declined following repeated additions, reflecting receptor desensitization. We assessed the efficacy and potency of structurally distinct KOR small molecule and peptide ligands. The FMP assay reliably detected both partial agonists and stereoselectivity. Using KOR-selective peptides with varying efficacies, we found that the FMP assay allowed high throughput quantification of peptide efficacy. These data demonstrate that the FMP assay is a sensitive method for assessing κ-opioid receptor induced hyperpolarization, and represents a useful approach for quantification of potency, efficacy and desensitization of KOR ligands.
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- Yuanzi Zhao
- Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA; Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA
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Taylor KN, Joshi AA, Hirfanoglu T, Grinenko O, Liu P, Wang X, Gonzalez‐Martinez JA, Leahy RM, Mosher JC, Nair DR. Validation of semi-automated anatomically labeled SEEG contacts in a brain atlas for mapping connectivity in focal epilepsy. Epilepsia Open 2021; 6:493-503. [PMID: 34033267 PMCID: PMC8408609 DOI: 10.1002/epi4.12499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2021] [Revised: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 04/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Stereotactic electroencephalography (SEEG) has been widely used to explore the epileptic network and localize the epileptic zone in patients with medically intractable epilepsy. Accurate anatomical labeling of SEEG electrode contacts is critically important for correctly interpreting epileptic activity. We present a method for automatically assigning anatomical labels to SEEG electrode contacts using a 3D-segmented cortex and coregistered postoperative CT images. METHOD Stereotactic electroencephalography electrode contacts were spatially localized relative to the brain volume using a standard clinical procedure. Each contact was then assigned an anatomical label by clinical epilepsy fellows. Separately, each contact was automatically labeled by coregistering the subject's MRI to the USCBrain atlas using the BrainSuite software and assigning labels from the atlas based on contact locations. The results of both labeling methods were then compared, and a subsequent vetting of the anatomical labels was performed by expert review. RESULTS Anatomical labeling agreement between the two methods for over 17 000 SEEG contacts was 82%. This agreement was consistent in patients with and without previous surgery (P = .852). Expert review of contacts in disagreement between the two methods resulted in agreement with the atlas based over manual labels in 48% of cases, agreement with manual over atlas-based labels in 36% of cases, and disagreement with both methods in 16% of cases. Labels deemed incorrect by the expert review were then categorized as either in a region directly adjacent to the correct label or as a gross error, revealing a lower likelihood of gross error from the automated method. SIGNIFICANCE The method for semi-automated atlas-based anatomical labeling we describe here demonstrates potential to assist clinical workflow by reducing both analysis time and the likelihood of gross anatomical error. Additionally, it provides a convenient means of intersubject analysis by standardizing the anatomical labels applied to SEEG contact locations across subjects.
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- Department of Electrical EngineeringUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Epilepsy CenterNeurological InstituteCleveland ClinicClevelandOHUSA
- Department of Pediatric NeurologyGazi University School of MedicineAnkaraTurkey
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- Epilepsy CenterNeurological InstituteCleveland ClinicClevelandOHUSA
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- Epilepsy CenterNeurological InstituteCleveland ClinicClevelandOHUSA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery and Epilepsy CenterUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical CenterPittsburghPAUSA
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- Department of Electrical EngineeringUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of NeurologyMcGovern Medical SchoolUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonHoustonTXUSA
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- Epilepsy CenterNeurological InstituteCleveland ClinicClevelandOHUSA
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Li J, Wisnowski JL, Joshi AA, Leahy RM. Robust brain network identification from multi-subject asynchronous fMRI data. Neuroimage 2020; 227:117615. [PMID: 33301936 PMCID: PMC7983296 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2020] [Revised: 11/20/2020] [Accepted: 11/27/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
Abstract
We describe a novel method for robust identification of common brain networks and their corresponding temporal dynamics across subjects from asynchronous functional MRI (fMRI) using tensor decomposition. We first temporally align asynchronous fMRI data using the orthogonal BrainSync transform, allowing us to study common brain networks across sessions and subjects. We then map the synchronized fMRI data into a 3D tensor (vertices × time × subject/session). Finally, we apply Nesterov-accelerated adaptive moment estimation (Nadam) within a scalable and robust sequential Canonical Polyadic (CP) decomposition framework to identify a low rank tensor approximation to the data. As a result of CP tensor decomposition, we successfully identified twelve known brain networks with their corresponding temporal dynamics from 40 subjects using the Human Connectome Project's language task fMRI data without any prior information regarding the specific task designs. Seven of these networks show distinct subjects' responses to the language task with differing temporal dynamics; two show sub-components of the default mode network that exhibit deactivation during the tasks; the remaining three components reflect non-task-related activities. We compare results to those found using group independent component analysis (ICA) and canonical ICA. Bootstrap analysis demonstrates increased robustness of networks found using the CP tensor approach relative to ICA-based methods.
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- Jian Li
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States.
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- Radiology and Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90027, United States; Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
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Akrami H, Joshi AA, Li J, Aydore S, Leahy RM. BRAIN LESION DETECTION USING A ROBUST VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER AND TRANSFER LEARNING. Proc IEEE Int Symp Biomed Imaging 2020; 2020:786-790. [PMID: 33500750 DOI: 10.1109/isbi45749.2020.9098405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Automated brain lesion detection from multi-spectral MR images can assist clinicians by improving sensitivity as well as specificity. Supervised machine learning methods have been successful in lesion detection. However, these methods usually rely on a large number of manually delineated images for specific imaging protocols and parameters and often do not generalize well to other imaging parameters and demographics. Most recently, unsupervised models such as autoencoders have become attractive for lesion detection since they do not need access to manually delineated lesions. Despite the success of unsupervised models, using pre-trained models on an unseen dataset is still a challenge. This difficulty is because the new dataset may use different imaging parameters, demographics, and different pre-processing techniques. Additionally, using a clinical dataset that has anomalies and outliers can make unsupervised learning challenging since the outliers can unduly affect the performance of the learned models. These two difficulties make unsupervised lesion detection a particularly challenging task. The method proposed in this work addresses these issues using a two-prong strategy: (1) we use a robust variational autoencoder model that is based on robust statistics, specifically the β-divergence that can be trained with data that has outliers; (2) we use a transfer-learning method for learning models across datasets with different characteristics. Our results on MRI datasets demonstrate that we can improve the accuracy of lesion detection by adapting robust statistical models and transfer learning for a variational autoencoder model.
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- Haleh Akrami
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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Li J, Joshi AA, Leahy RM. A NETWORK-BASED APPROACH TO STUDY OF ADHD USING TENSOR DECOMPOSITION OF RESTING STATE FMRI DATA. Proc IEEE Int Symp Biomed Imaging 2020; 2020:544-548. [PMID: 33500749 PMCID: PMC7831393 DOI: 10.1109/isbi45749.2020.9098584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Identifying changes in functional connectivity in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can help us understand the neural substrates of this brain disorder. Many studies of ADHD using resting state fMRI (rs-fMRI) data have been conducted in the past decade with either manually crafted features that do not yield satisfactory performance, or automatically learned features that often lack interpretability. In this work, we present a tensor-based approach to identify brain networks and extract features from rs-fMRI data. Results show the identified networks are interpretable and consistent with our current understanding of ADHD conditions. The extracted features are not only predictive of ADHD score but also discriminative for classification of ADHD subjects from typically developed children.
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- Jian Li
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California
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Taylor KN, Joshi AA, Li J, Gonzalez-Martinez JA, Wang X, Leahy RM, Nair DR, Mosher JC. The FAST graph: A novel framework for the anatomically-guided visualization and analysis of cortico-cortical evoked potentials. Epilepsy Res 2020; 161:106264. [PMID: 32086098 PMCID: PMC7206791 DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2020.106264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2019] [Revised: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/01/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Intracerebral electroencephalography (iEEG) using stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) methodology for epilepsy surgery gives rise to complex data sets. The neurophysiological data obtained during the in-patient period includes categorization of the evoked potentials resulting from direct electrical cortical stimulation such as cortico-cortical evoked potentials (CCEPs). These potentials are recorded by hundreds of contacts, making these waveforms difficult to quickly interpret over such high-density arrays that are organized in three dimensional fashion. NEW METHOD The challenge in analyzing CCEPs data arises not just from the density of the array, but also from the stimulation of a number of different intracerebral sites. A systematic methodology for visualization and analysis of these evoked data is lacking. We describe the process of incorporating anatomical information into the visualizations, which are then compared to more traditional plotting techniques to highlight the usefulness of the new framework. RESULTS We describe here an innovative framework for sorting, registering, labeling, ordering, and quantifying the functional CCEPs data, using the anatomical labelling of the brain, to provide an informative visualization and summary statistics which we call the "FAST graph" (Functional-Anatomical STacked area graphs). The FAST graph analysis is used to depict the significant CCEPs responses in patient with focal epilepsy. CONCLUSIONS The novel plotting approach shown here allows us to visualize high-density stimulation data in a single summary plot for subsequent detailed analyses. Improving the visual presentation of complex data sets aides in enhancing the clinical utility of the data.
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- Kenneth N Taylor
- Epilepsy Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA
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- Epilepsy Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Department of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Li J, Choi S, Joshi AA, Wisnowski JL, Leahy RM. Temporal non-local means filtering for studies of intrinsic brain connectivity from individual resting fMRI. Med Image Anal 2020; 61:101635. [PMID: 32007699 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2020.101635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2019] [Revised: 10/17/2019] [Accepted: 01/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Characterizing functional brain connectivity using resting functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is challenging due to the relatively small Blood-Oxygen-Level Dependent contrast and low signal-to-noise ratio. Denoising using surface-based Laplace-Beltrami (LB) or volumetric Gaussian filtering tends to blur boundaries between different functional areas. To overcome this issue, a time-based Non-Local Means (tNLM) filtering method was previously developed to denoise fMRI data while preserving spatial structure. The kernel and parameters that define the tNLM filter need to be optimized for each application. Here we present a novel Global PDF-based tNLM filtering (GPDF) algorithm that uses a data-driven kernel function based on a Bayes factor to optimize filtering for spatial delineation of functional connectivity in resting fMRI data. We demonstrate its performance relative to Gaussian spatial filtering and the original tNLM filtering via simulations. We also compare the effects of GPDF filtering against LB filtering using individual in-vivo resting fMRI datasets. Our results show that LB filtering tends to blur signals across boundaries between adjacent functional regions. In contrast, GPDF filtering enables improved noise reduction without blurring adjacent functional regions. These results indicate that GPDF may be a useful preprocessing tool for analyses of brain connectivity and network topology in individual fMRI recordings.
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- Jian Li
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089 USA.
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089 USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089 USA
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- Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90027 USA; Fetal and Neonatal Institute, CHLA Division of Neonatology, Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033 USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089 USA
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Choi S, O'Neil SH, Joshi AA, Li J, Bush AM, Coates TD, Leahy RM, Wood JC. Anemia predicts lower white matter volume and cognitive performance in sickle and non-sickle cell anemia syndrome. Am J Hematol 2019; 94:1055-1065. [PMID: 31259431 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.25570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2019] [Revised: 06/25/2019] [Accepted: 06/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Severe chronic anemia is an independent predictor of overt stroke, white matter damage, and cognitive dysfunction in the elderly. Severe anemia also predisposes to white matter strokes in young children, independent of the anemia subtype. We previously demonstrated symmetrically decreased white matter (WM) volumes in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). In the current study, we investigated whether patients with non-sickle anemia also have lower WM volumes and cognitive dysfunction. Magnetic Resonance Imaging was performed on 52 clinically asymptomatic SCD patients (age = 21.4 ± 7.7; F = 27, M = 25; hemoglobin = 9.6 ± 1.6 g/dL), 26 non-sickle anemic patients (age = 23.9 ± 7.9; F = 14, M = 12; hemoglobin = 10.8 ± 2.5 g/dL) and 40 control subjects (age = 27.7 ± 11.3; F = 28, M = 12; hemoglobin = 13.4 ± 1.3 g/dL). Voxel-wise changes in WM brain volumes were compared to hemoglobin levels to identify brain regions that are vulnerable to anemia. White matter volume was diffusely lower in deep, watershed areas proportionally to anemia severity. After controlling for age, sex, and hemoglobin level, brain volumes were independent of disease. WM volume loss was associated with lower Full Scale Intelligence Quotient (FSIQ; P = .0048; r2 = .18) and an abnormal burden of silent cerebral infarctions (P = .029) in males, but not in females. Hemoglobin count and cognitive measures were similar between subjects with and without white-matter hyperintensities. The spatial distribution of volume loss suggests chronic hypoxic cerebrovascular injury, despite compensatory hyperemia. Neurocognitive consequences of WM volume changes and silent cerebral infarction were strongly sexually dimorphic. Understanding the possible neurological consequences of chronic anemia may help inform our current clinical practices.
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- Soyoung Choi
- Neuroscience Graduate ProgramUniversity of Southern California Los Angeles California
- Signal and Image Processing InstituteUniversity of Southern California Los Angeles California
- Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow TransplantationChildren's Hospital Los Angeles Los Angeles California
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- The Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles Los Angeles California
- Division of NeurologyChildren's Hospital Los Angeles Los Angeles California
- Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of MedicineUniversity of Southern California Los Angeles California
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- Signal and Image Processing InstituteUniversity of Southern California Los Angeles California
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- Signal and Image Processing InstituteUniversity of Southern California Los Angeles California
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- Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow TransplantationChildren's Hospital Los Angeles Los Angeles California
- Biomedical EngineeringUniversity of Southern California Los Angeles California
- Radiology DepartmentStanford University Stanford California
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- Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow TransplantationChildren's Hospital Los Angeles Los Angeles California
- Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of MedicineUniversity of Southern California Los Angeles California
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- Neuroscience Graduate ProgramUniversity of Southern California Los Angeles California
- Signal and Image Processing InstituteUniversity of Southern California Los Angeles California
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- Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow TransplantationChildren's Hospital Los Angeles Los Angeles California
- Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of MedicineUniversity of Southern California Los Angeles California
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Joshi AA, Li J, Akrami H, Leahy RM. Predicting Cognitive Scores from Resting fMRI Data and Geometric Features of the Brain. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng 2019; 10949. [PMID: 34305256 DOI: 10.1117/12.2512063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Anatomical T1 weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and functional magnetic resonance imaging collected during resting (rfMRI) are promising markers that offer insight into the structure and function of the human brain. The objective of this work is to explore the use of a deep learning neural network to predict cognitive performance scores for a population of normal controls and subjects with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Specifically, we predict verbal and performance IQs and ADHD index from features derived from T1 and rfMRI imaging data. First, we processed the rfMRI and MRI data of subjects using the BrainSuite fMRI Processing (BFP) pipeline to perform anatomical and functional preprocessing. This produces for each subject fMRI and geometric (anatomical) features represented in a standardized grayordinate system. The geometric and functional cortical data corresponding to the two hemispheres were then transformed to 128×128 multichannel images and input to a convolutional component of the neural network. Subcortical data were presented in a standard vector form and inputted to a input layer of the network. The neural network was implemented in Python using the Keras library with a TensorFlow backend. Training was performed on 168 images with 90 images used for testing. We observed a high correlation between predicted and actual values of the indices tested: Performance IQ: 0.47; Verbal IQ: 0.41, ADHD: 0.57. Comparing these values to those from network trained on functional-only and structural-only data, we saw that rfMRI is more informative than MRI, but the two modalities are highly complementary in terms of predicting these indices.
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- Anand A Joshi
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
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Foster BH, Shaw CB, Boutin RD, Joshi AA, Bayne CO, Szabo RM, Chaudhari AJ. A principal component analysis-based framework for statistical modeling of bone displacement during wrist maneuvers. J Biomech 2019; 85:173-181. [PMID: 30738587 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.01.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2018] [Revised: 01/13/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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We present a method for the statistical modeling of the displacements of wrist bones during the performance of coordinated maneuvers, such as radial-ulnar deviation (RUD). In our approach, we decompose bone displacement via a set of basis functions, identified via principal component analysis (PCA). We utilized MRI wrist scans acquired at multiple static positions for deriving these basis functions. We then utilized these basis functions to compare the displacements undergone by the bones of the left versus right wrist in the same individual, and between bones of the wrists of men and women, during the performance of the coordinated RUD maneuver. Our results show that the complex displacements of the wrist bones during RUD can be modeled with high reliability with just 5 basis functions, that captured over 91% of variation across individuals. The basis functions were able to predict intermediate wrist bone poses with an overall high accuracy (mean error of 0.26 mm). Our proposed approach found statistically significant differences between bone displacement trajectories in women versus men, however, did not find significant differences in those of the left versus right wrist in the same individual. Our proposed method has the potential to enable detailed analysis of wrist kinematics for each sex, and provide a robust framework for characterizing the normal and pathologic displacement of the wrist bones, such as in the context of wrist instability.
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- Brent H Foster
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
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Joshi AA, Murray TF, Aldrich JV. Alanine scan of the opioid peptide dynorphin B amide. Biopolymers 2018; 108. [PMID: 28464209 DOI: 10.1002/bip.23026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2017] [Revised: 04/24/2017] [Accepted: 04/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
To date structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies of the dynorphins (Dyn), endogenous peptides for kappa opioid receptors (KOR), have focused almost exclusively on Dyn A with minimal studies on Dyn B. While both Dyn A and Dyn B have identical N-terminal sequences, their C-terminal sequences differ, which could result in differences in pharmacological activity. We performed an alanine scan of the non-glycine residues up through residue 11 of Dyn B amide to explore the roles of these side chains in the activity of Dyn B. The analogs were synthesized by fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl (Fmoc)-based solid phase peptide synthesis and evaluated for their opioid receptor affinities and opioid potency and efficacy at KOR. Similar to Dyn A the N-terminal Tyr1 and Phe4 residues of Dyn B amide are critical for opioid receptor affinity and KOR agonist potency. The basic residues Arg6 and Arg7 contribute to the KOR affinity and agonist potency of Dyn B amide, while Lys10 contributes to the opioid receptor affinity, but not KOR agonist potency, of this peptide. Comparison to the Ala analogs of Dyn A (1-13) suggests that the basic residues in the C-terminus of both peptides contribute to KOR binding, but differences in their relative positions may contribute to the different pharmacological profiles of Dyn A and Dyn B. The other unique C-terminal residues in Dyn B amide also appear to influence the relative affinity of this peptide for KOR versus mu and delta opioid receptors. This SAR information may be applied in the design of new Dyn B analogs that could be useful pharmacological tools.
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- Anand A Joshi
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, 68102
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045.,Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32610
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Joshi AA, Bhushan C, Salloum R, Wisnowski J, Shattuck DW, Leahy RM. Using the Anisotropic Laplace Equation to Compute Cortical Thickness. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018; 11072:549-556. [PMID: 30734031 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00931-1_63] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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Automatic computation of cortical thickness is a critical step when investigating neuroanatomical population differences and changes associated with normal development and aging, as well as in neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Limited spatial resolution and partial volume effects, in which more than one tissue type is represented in each voxel, have a significant impact on the accuracy of thickness estimates, particularly if a hard intensity threshold is used to delineate cortical boundaries. We describe a novel method based on the anisotropic heat equation that explicitly accounts for the presence of partial tissue volumes to more accurately estimate cortical thickness. The anisotropic term uses gray matter fractions to incorporate partial tissue voxels into the thickness calculation, as demonstrated through simulations and experiments. We also show that the proposed method is robust to the effects of finite voxel resolution and blurring. In comparison to methods based on hard intensity thresholds, the heat equation based method yields results with in-vivo data that are more consistent with histological findings reported in the literature. We also performed a test-retest study across scanners that indicated improved consistency and robustness to scanner differences.
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- Anand A Joshi
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Li J, Choi S, Joshi AA, Wisnowski JL, Leahy RM. GLOBAL PDF-BASED TEMPORAL NON-LOCAL MEANS FILTERING REVEALS INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN BRAIN CONNECTIVITY. Proc IEEE Int Symp Biomed Imaging 2018; 2018:15-19. [PMID: 30713593 DOI: 10.1109/isbi.2018.8363513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
Characterizing functional brain connectivity using resting fMRI is challenging due to the relatively small BOLD signal contrast and low SNR. Gaussian filtering tends to undermine the individual differences detected by analysis of BOLD signal by smoothing signals across boundaries of different functional areas. Temporal non-local means (tNLM) filtering denoises fMRI data while preserving spatial structures but the kernel and parameters for tNLM filter need to be chosen carefully in order to achieve optimal results. Global PDF-based tNLM filtering (GPDF) is a new, data-dependent optimized kernel function for tNLM filtering which enables us to perform global filtering with improved noise reduction effects without blurring adjacent functional regions.
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- Jian Li
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 90089
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 90089.,Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 90089
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 90089
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- Radiology and Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 90089
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 90089
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Wu JJ, Joshi AA, Reddy SP, Batech M, Egeberg A, Ahlehoff O, Mehta NN. Anti-inflammatory therapy with tumour necrosis factor inhibitors is associated with reduced risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in psoriasis. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2018; 32:1320-1326. [PMID: 29573294 DOI: 10.1111/jdv.14951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2017] [Accepted: 02/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Psoriasis is a systemic chronic inflammatory condition associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Data demonstrating that decreased skin inflammation reduces cardiovascular events in patients with psoriasis may be generalizable to other chronic inflammatory states with heightened cardiovascular risk. OBJECTIVE To determine whether tumour necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) therapy is associated with decreased major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in patients with psoriasis. METHODS In this retrospective cohort study using the KPSC health plan, patients had at least three ICD-9 codes for psoriasis and no antecedent MACE codes. Propensity score-adjusted multivariable Cox regression assessed hazard ratios (HR) of MACE associated with TNFi use. RESULTS After adjusting for cardiovascular risk factors, the TNFi cohort had significantly lower MACE HR compared with the topical cohort (HR, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.66-0.98). The oral/phototherapy cohort had similar MACE HR compared with the topical cohort (HR, 1.19 (95% CI, 0.99-1.42)). CONCLUSIONS We observed significantly lower MACE risk in patients with psoriasis receiving TNFi compared to topical or oral/phototherapy agents. TNFi therapy may have benefits beyond skin disease in mitigating cardiovascular event risk.
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- J J Wu
- Department of Dermatology, Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA
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- University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, The Heart Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark
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- Department of Cardiology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA
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Joshi AA, Chong M, Li J, Choi S, Leahy RM. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Synchronization of resting fMRI time-series across subjects. Neuroimage 2018; 172:740-752. [PMID: 29428580 PMCID: PMC6338442 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.01.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2017] [Revised: 11/04/2017] [Accepted: 01/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
We describe BrainSync, an orthogonal transform that allows direct comparison of resting fMRI (rfMRI) time-series across subjects. For this purpose, we exploit the geometry of the rfMRI signal space to propose a novel orthogonal transformation that synchronizes rfMRI time-series across sessions and subjects. When synchronized, rfMRI signals become approximately equal at homologous locations across subjects. The method is based on the observation that rfMRI data exhibit similar connectivity patterns across subjects, as reflected in the pairwise correlations between different brain regions. We show that if the data for two subjects have similar correlation patterns then their time courses can be approximately synchronized by an orthogonal transformation. This transform is unique, invertible, efficient to compute, and preserves the connectivity structure of the original data for all subjects. Analogously to image registration, where we spatially align structural brain images, this temporal synchronization of brain signals across a population, or within-subject across sessions, facilitates cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of rfMRI data. The utility of the BrainSync transform is illustrated through demonstrative simulations and applications including quantification of rfMRI variability across subjects and sessions, cortical functional parcellation across a population, timing recovery in task fMRI data, comparison of task and resting state data, and an application to complex naturalistic stimuli for annotation prediction.
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- Anand A Joshi
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States.
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Foster B, Joshi AA, Borgese M, Abdelhafez Y, Boutin RD, Chaudhari AJ. WRIST: A WRist Image Segmentation Toolkit for carpal bone delineation from MRI. Comput Med Imaging Graph 2017; 63:31-40. [PMID: 29331208 DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2017.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2017] [Revised: 11/17/2017] [Accepted: 12/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Segmentation of the carpal bones from 3D imaging modalities, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is commonly performed for in vivo analysis of wrist morphology, kinematics, and biomechanics. This crucial task is typically carried out manually and is labor intensive, time consuming, subject to high inter- and intra-observer variability, and may result in topologically incorrect surfaces. We present a method, WRist Image Segmentation Toolkit (WRIST), for 3D semi-automated, rapid segmentation of the carpal bones of the wrist from MRI. In our method, the boundary of the bones were iteratively found using prior known anatomical constraints and a shape-detection level set. The parameters of the method were optimized using a training dataset of 48 manually segmented carpal bones and evaluated on 112 carpal bones which included both healthy participants without known wrist conditions and participants with thumb basilar osteoarthritis (OA). Manual segmentation by two expert human observers was considered as a reference. On the healthy subject dataset we obtained a Dice overlap of 93.0 ± 3.8, Jaccard Index of 87.3 ± 6.2, and a Hausdorff distance of 2.7 ± 3.4 mm, while on the OA dataset we obtained a Dice overlap of 90.7 ± 8.6, Jaccard Index of 83.0 ± 10.6, and a Hausdorff distance of 4.0 ± 4.4 mm. The short computational time of 20.8 s per bone (or 5.1 s per bone in the parallelized version) and the high agreement with the expert observers gives WRIST the potential to be utilized in musculoskeletal research.
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- Brent Foster
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
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Habibi A, Damasio A, Ilari B, Veiga R, Joshi AA, Leahy RM, Haldar JP, Varadarajan D, Bhushan C, Damasio H. Childhood Music Training Induces Change in Micro and Macroscopic Brain Structure: Results from a Longitudinal Study. Cereb Cortex 2017; 28:4336-4347. [DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhx286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2017] [Accepted: 10/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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- Assal Habibi
- Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, CA, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, CA, USA
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- Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California, CA, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, CA, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, CA, USA
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, CA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, CA, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, CA, USA
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, CA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, CA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, CA, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, CA, USA
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Choi S, Bush AM, Borzage MT, Joshi AA, Mack WJ, Coates TD, Leahy RM, Wood JC. Hemoglobin and mean platelet volume predicts diffuse T1-MRI white matter volume decrease in sickle cell disease patients. Neuroimage Clin 2017; 15:239-246. [PMID: 28540180 PMCID: PMC5430155 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2017.04.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2017] [Revised: 04/13/2017] [Accepted: 04/25/2017] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
Abstract
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a life-threatening genetic condition. Patients suffer from chronic systemic and cerebral vascular disease that leads to early and cumulative neurological damage. Few studies have quantified the effects of this disease on brain morphometry and even fewer efforts have been devoted to older patients despite the progressive nature of the disease. This study quantifies global and regional brain volumes in adolescent and young adult patients with SCD and racially matched controls with the aim of distinguishing between age related changes associated with normal brain maturation and damage from sickle cell disease. T1 weighted images were acquired on 33 clinically asymptomatic SCD patients (age = 21.3 ± 7.8; F = 18, M = 15) and 32 racially matched control subjects (age = 24.4 ± 7.5; F = 22, M = 10). Exclusion criteria included pregnancy, previous overt stroke, acute chest, or pain crisis hospitalization within one month. All brain volume comparisons were corrected for age and sex. Globally, grey matter volume was not different but white matter volume was 8.1% lower (p = 0.0056) in the right hemisphere and 6.8% (p = 0.0068) in the left hemisphere in SCD patients compared with controls. Multivariate analysis retained hemoglobin (β = 0.33; p = 0.0036), sex (β = 0.35; p = 0.0017) and mean platelet volume (β = 0.27; p = 0.016) as significant factors in the final prediction model for white matter volume for a combined r2 of 0.37 (p < 0.0001). Lower white matter volume was confined to phylogenetically younger brain regions in the anterior and middle cerebral artery distributions. Our findings suggest that there are diffuse white matter abnormalities in SCD patients, especially in the frontal, parietal and temporal lobes, that are associated with low hemoglobin levels and mean platelet volume. The pattern of brain loss suggests chronic microvascular insufficiency and tissue hypoxia as the causal mechanism. However, longitudinal studies of global and regional brain morphometry can help us give further insights on the pathophysiology of SCD in the brain. Total white matter brain volume is decreased in sickle cell disease patients. Global white matter decrease is found to be due to anemia. Diffuse WM volume decrease is found especially in watershed areas. Diffuse WM volume decrease spatially colocalize with silent stroke in SCD patients.
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Key Words
- ACA, anterior cerebral artery
- GM, grey matter
- Hemoglobin
- HgB, hemoglobin
- MCA, middle cerebral artery
- MPV, mean platelet volume
- MRI, magnetic resonance imaging
- Mean platelet volume
- PCA, posterior cerebral artery
- ROI, region of interest
- SCD, sickle cell disease
- Sickle cell disease
- Structural MRI
- WM, white matter
- WMHI, white matter hyperintensities
- White matter
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- Soyoung Choi
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, 3641 Watt Way, HNB 120, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA; Signal and Image Processing Institution, University of Southern California, 3740 McClintock Avenue, EEB 400, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2560, USA; Department of Pediatrics and Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles USC, 4650 Sunset Blvd., MS #81, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA.
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- Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1042 Downey Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
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- Department of Pediatrics and Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles USC, 4650 Sunset Blvd., MS #81, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA.
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- Signal and Image Processing Institution, University of Southern California, 3740 McClintock Avenue, EEB 400, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2560, USA.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1200 North State St., Suite 3300, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
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- Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, 4650 Sunset Blvd. MS #54, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA.
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- Signal and Image Processing Institution, University of Southern California, 3740 McClintock Avenue, EEB 400, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2560, USA; Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1042 Downey Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
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- Department of Pediatrics and Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles USC, 4650 Sunset Blvd., MS #81, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA; Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1042 Downey Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
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Maharao NV, Joshi AA, Gerk PM. Inhibition of glucuronidation and oxidative metabolism of buprenorphine using GRAS compounds or dietary constituents/supplements:in vitroproof of concept. Biopharm Drug Dispos 2017; 38:139-154. [DOI: 10.1002/bdd.2050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2016] [Revised: 11/11/2016] [Accepted: 11/30/2016] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Neha V. Maharao
- Department of Pharmaceutics; VCU School of Pharmacy; Richmond VA 23298-0533 USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics; VCU School of Pharmacy; Richmond VA 23298-0533 USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics; VCU School of Pharmacy; Richmond VA 23298-0533 USA
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Awate SP, Leahy RM, Joshi AA. Riemannian Statistical Analysis of Cortical Geometry with Robustness to Partial Homology and Misalignment. Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv 2016; 9900:237-246. [PMID: 28105471 PMCID: PMC5240952 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46720-7_28] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/25/2023]
Abstract
Typical studies of the geometry of the cerebral cortical structure focus on either cortical folding or thickness. They rely on spatial normalization, but use cortical descriptors that are sensitive to misregistration arising from the well-known problems of partial homologies between subject brains and local optima in nonlinear registration. In contrast to these approaches, we propose a novel framework for studying the geometry of the entire cortical sheet, subsuming its folding and thickness characteristics. We propose a novel descriptor of local cortical geometry to increase robustness to partial homology and misregistration. The proposed descriptor lies on a Riemannian manifold, and we describe a method for hypothesis testing on manifolds for cross-sectional studies. Results on simulated and clinical data show the benefits of the proposed approach for detecting between-group differences with greater accuracy and consistency.
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- Suyash P Awate
- Computer Science and Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI), University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI), University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA
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Joshi AA, Vaidya SS, St-Pierre MV, Mikheev AM, Desino KE, Nyandege AN, Audus KL, Unadkat JD, Gerk PM. Placental ABC Transporters: Biological Impact and Pharmaceutical Significance. Pharm Res 2016; 33:2847-2878. [PMID: 27644937 DOI: 10.1007/s11095-016-2028-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2016] [Accepted: 08/23/2016] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
Abstract
The human placenta fulfills a variety of essential functions during prenatal life. Several ABC transporters are expressed in the human placenta, where they play a role in the transport of endogenous compounds and may protect the fetus from exogenous compounds such as therapeutic agents, drugs of abuse, and other xenobiotics. To date, considerable progress has been made toward understanding ABC transporters in the placenta. Recent studies on the expression and functional activities are discussed. This review discusses the placental expression and functional roles of several members of ABC transporter subfamilies B, C, and G including MDR1/P-glycoprotein, the MRPs, and BCRP, respectively. Since placental ABC transporters modulate fetal exposure to various compounds, an understanding of their functional and regulatory mechanisms will lead to more optimal medication use when necessary in pregnancy.
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- Anand A Joshi
- Department of Pharmaceutics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy, Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0533, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy, Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0533, USA
- Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Washington School of Pharmacy, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Institute of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, 98109, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas School of Pharmacy, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
- Abbvie Inc, North Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy, Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0533, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas School of Pharmacy, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Washington School of Pharmacy, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy, Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0533, USA.
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Wang ZI, Krishnan B, Shattuck DW, Leahy RM, Moosa ANV, Wyllie E, Burgess RC, Al-Sharif NB, Joshi AA, Alexopoulos AV, Mosher JC, Udayasankar U, Jones SE. Automated MRI Volumetric Analysis in Patients with Rasmussen Syndrome. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2016; 37:2348-2355. [PMID: 27609620 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a4914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2016] [Accepted: 07/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Rasmussen syndrome, also known as Rasmussen encephalitis, is typically associated with volume loss of the affected hemisphere of the brain. Our aim was to apply automated quantitative volumetric MR imaging analyses to patients diagnosed with Rasmussen encephalitis, to determine the predictive value of lobar volumetric measures and to assess regional atrophy differences as well as monitor disease progression by using these measures. MATERIALS AND METHODS Nineteen patients (42 scans) with diagnosed Rasmussen encephalitis were studied. We used 2 control groups: one with 42 age- and sex-matched healthy subjects and the other with 42 epileptic patients without Rasmussen encephalitis with the same disease duration as patients with Rasmussen encephalitis. Volumetric analysis was performed on T1-weighted images by using BrainSuite. Ratios of volumes from the affected hemisphere divided by those from the unaffected hemisphere were used as input to a logistic regression classifier, which was trained to discriminate patients from controls. Using the classifier, we compared the predictive accuracy of all the volumetric measures. These ratios were used to further assess regional atrophy differences and correlate with epilepsy duration. RESULTS Interhemispheric and frontal lobe ratios had the best prediction accuracy for separating patients with Rasmussen encephalitis from healthy controls and patient controls without Rasmussen encephalitis. The insula showed significantly more atrophy compared with all the other cortical regions. Patients with longitudinal scans showed progressive volume loss in the affected hemisphere. Atrophy of the frontal lobe and insula correlated significantly with epilepsy duration. CONCLUSIONS Automated quantitative volumetric analysis provides accurate separation of patients with Rasmussen encephalitis from healthy controls and epileptic patients without Rasmussen encephalitis, and thus may assist the diagnosis of Rasmussen encephalitis. Volumetric analysis could also be included as part of follow-up for patients with Rasmussen encephalitis to assess disease progression.
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- Z I Wang
- From the Epilepsy Center (Z.I.W., B.K., A.N.V.M., E.W., R.C.B., A.V.A., J.C.M.)
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- From the Epilepsy Center (Z.I.W., B.K., A.N.V.M., E.W., R.C.B., A.V.A., J.C.M.)
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- Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center (D.W.S., N.B.A.-S.), Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute (A.A.J., R.M.L.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- From the Epilepsy Center (Z.I.W., B.K., A.N.V.M., E.W., R.C.B., A.V.A., J.C.M.)
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- From the Epilepsy Center (Z.I.W., B.K., A.N.V.M., E.W., R.C.B., A.V.A., J.C.M.)
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- From the Epilepsy Center (Z.I.W., B.K., A.N.V.M., E.W., R.C.B., A.V.A., J.C.M.)
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- Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center (D.W.S., N.B.A.-S.), Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute (A.A.J., R.M.L.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- From the Epilepsy Center (Z.I.W., B.K., A.N.V.M., E.W., R.C.B., A.V.A., J.C.M.)
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- From the Epilepsy Center (Z.I.W., B.K., A.N.V.M., E.W., R.C.B., A.V.A., J.C.M.)
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- Department of Radiology (U.U.), University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona
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- Imaging Institute (S.E.J.), Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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Marusak HA, Kuruvadi N, Vila AM, Shattuck DW, Joshi SH, Joshi AA, Jella PK, Thomason ME. Interactive effects of BDNF Val66Met genotype and trauma on limbic brain anatomy in childhood. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2016; 25:509-18. [PMID: 26286685 PMCID: PMC4760899 DOI: 10.1007/s00787-015-0759-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2015] [Accepted: 08/05/2015] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
Childhood trauma is a major precipitating factor in psychiatric disease. Emerging data suggest that stress susceptibility is genetically determined, and that risk is mediated by changes in limbic brain circuitry. There is a need to identify markers of disease vulnerability, and it is critical that these markers be investigated in childhood and adolescence, a time when neural networks are particularly malleable and when psychiatric disorders frequently emerge. In this preliminary study, we evaluated whether a common variant in the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene (Val66Met; rs6265) interacts with childhood trauma to predict limbic gray matter volume in a sample of 55 youth high in sociodemographic risk. We found trauma-by-BDNF interactions in the right subcallosal area and right hippocampus, wherein BDNF-related gray matter changes were evident in youth without histories of trauma. In youth without trauma exposure, lower hippocampal volume was related to higher symptoms of anxiety. These data provide preliminary evidence for a contribution of a common BDNF gene variant to the neural correlates of childhood trauma among high-risk urban youth. Altered limbic structure in early life may lay the foundation for longer term patterns of neural dysfunction, and hold implications for understanding the psychiatric and psychobiological consequences of traumatic stress on the developing brain.
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- Hilary A. Marusak
- Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute for Child and Family Development, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
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- Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute for Child and Family Development, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California USA,Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute for Child and Family Development, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA,Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI USA,Perinatology Research Branch, NICHD/NIH/DHSS, Bethesda, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Shi J, Collignon O, Xu L, Wang G, Kang Y, Leporé F, Lao Y, Joshi AA, Leporé N, Wang Y. Impact of Early and Late Visual Deprivation on the Structure of the Corpus Callosum: A Study Combining Thickness Profile with Surface Tensor-Based Morphometry. Neuroinformatics 2016; 13:321-336. [PMID: 25649876 DOI: 10.1007/s12021-014-9259-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
Blindness represents a unique model to study how visual experience may shape the development of brain organization. Exploring how the structure of the corpus callosum (CC) reorganizes ensuing visual deprivation is of particular interest due to its important functional implication in vision (e.g., via the splenium of the CC). Moreover, comparing early versus late visually deprived individuals has the potential to unravel the existence of a sensitive period for reshaping the CC structure. Here, we develop a novel framework to capture a complete set of shape differences in the CC between congenitally blind (CB), late blind (LB) and sighted control (SC) groups. The CCs were manually segmented from T1-weighted brain MRI and modeled by 3D tetrahedral meshes. We statistically compared the combination of local area and thickness at each point between subject groups. Differences in area are found using surface tensor-based morphometry; thickness is estimated by tracing the streamlines in the volumetric harmonic field. Group differences were assessed on this combined measure using Hotelling's T(2) test. Interestingly, we observed that the total callosal volume did not differ between the groups. However, our fine-grained analysis reveals significant differences mostly localized around the splenium areas between both blind groups and the sighted group (general effects of blindness) and, importantly, specific dissimilarities between the LB and CB groups, illustrating the existence of a sensitive period for reorganization. The new multivariate statistics also gave better effect sizes for detecting morphometric differences, relative to other statistics. They may boost statistical power for CC morphometric analyses.
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- Jie Shi
- School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- School of Information and Electrical Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Radiology & Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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Kabbany MT, Joshi AA, Ahlman M, Rodante J, Lerman JB, Aberra T, Silverman J, Dahiya A, Bluemke DA, Playford MP, Mehta NN. 21: DETERMINANTS OF VASCULAR INFLAMMATION BY 18-FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE PET/MRI: FINDINGS FROM THE PSORIASIS, ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND CARDIOMETABOLIC DISEASE INITIATIVE. J Investig Med 2016. [DOI: 10.1136/jim-2016-000080.37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Purpose of StudyPsoriasis (PSO), a chronic inflammatory disease associated with increased CV risk, provides a clinical human model to study inflammatory atherogenesis. We aimed to assess the major determinants of vascular inflammation (VI) measured by 18FDG PET-MRI in a well-phenotyped PSO cohort.Methods Used124 consecutive patients with PSO underwent 18FDG PET-MRI scans. We used target-to-background ratio to quantify VI 120 minutes post FDG injection. Homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) was measured, along with cholesterol efflux capacity (CEC) and HDL particle concentration by NMR (Liposcience) fasting.Summary of ResultsOur cohort was middle aged (mean 49±13.3 years) with mild to moderate PSO, and low CV risk (median Framingham Risk Score (FRS) 2, IQR 2–6). PSO was associated with increased VI (β=0.27, p<0.005), compared to healthy controls. VI was associated with HOMA-IR (β=0.26, p<0.001), CEC (β=−0.12, p=0.04) and HDL particle concentration (β=−0.19, p=0.003) beyond traditional CV risk factors (age, gender, FRS and BMI). Among these, HOMA-IR provided maximum incremental value in predicting VI beyond traditional risk factors (χ2=39.36, p<0.001).ConclusionsVI by FDG PET MRI is associated with traditional CV risk factors and cardiometabolic parameters. Insulin resistance and CEC were most strongly associated with VI by 18FDG PET-MRI beyond traditional CV risk factors and BMI in PSO suggesting that cardiometabolic disease increases CV risk in PSO.Abstract 21 Figure 1
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Lerman JB, Joshi AA, Rodante J, Aberra T, Kabbany MT, Salahuddin TF, Ng Q, Silverman J, Chen MY, Mehta NN. 18: IMPROVEMENT IN PSORIASIS SKIN DISEASE SEVERITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCTION OF CORONARY PLAQUE BURDEN. J Investig Med 2016. [DOI: 10.1136/jim-2016-000080.34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Purpose of StudyPsoriasis (PSO), a chronic inflammatory disease associated with increased cardiovascular (CV) risk, provides a clinical human model to study inflammatory atherogenesis. While PSO severity is associated with both in vivo vascular disease and future CV risk, the longitudinal impact of PSO severity on coronary disease progression is unknown. We hypothesized that an improvement in PSO severity may lead to a reduction in coronary plaque burden by coronary CT angiography (CCTA).Methods UsedConsecutively recruited PSO patients (N=50) underwent CCTA (320 detector row, Toshiba) and cardiometabolic profiling at baseline and 1-year follow-up. Total (TB) and non-calcified (NCB) coronary plaque burden were quantified using QAngio (Medis, Netherlands). PSO severity was measured as the psoriasis area severity index (PASI). The longitudinal change in coronary plaque burden was analyzed with unadjusted and adjusted regression.Summary of ResultsThe cohort had a low Framingham Risk Score and mild to moderate PSO. Patients whose PSO severity improved (ΔPASI −27%; p<0.001) (N=33) had significant improvement in TB (β=0.40, p=0.003) and NCB (β=0.49, p<0.001) (table 1), beyond adjustment for traditional CV risk factors, BMI, statin use, & systemic/biologic PSO therapy.ConclusionsImprovement in PSO severity was associated with improvement in coronary plaque burden by CCTA. Our study suggests that a reduction in skin inflammation may reduce the progression of early, non-calcified coronary plaque. Larger studies are needed to confirm these findings.Abstract 18 Figure 1*P-value is calculated by comparing baseline and 1-year follow-up values for variables using paired t-test for continuous variables, and Pearson's chi-squared test for categorical variables. All values are expressed as Mean±SD, unless specified otherwise. PASI: Psoriasis Area Severity Index.
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Joshi AA, Leahy RM, Badawi RD, Chaudhari AJ. Registration-Based Morphometry for Shape Analysis of the Bones of the Human Wrist. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2016; 35:416-426. [PMID: 26353369 PMCID: PMC4779077 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2015.2476817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We present a method that quantifies point-wise changes in surface morphology of the bones of the human wrist. The proposed method, referred to as Registration-based Bone Morphometry (RBM), consists of two steps: an atlas selection step and an atlas warping step. The atlas for individual wrist bones was selected based on the shortest ℓ2 distance to the ensemble of wrist bones from a database of a healthy population of subjects. The selected atlas was then warped to the corresponding bones of individuals in the population using a non-linear registration method based on regularized ℓ2 distance minimization. The displacement field thus calculated showed local differences in bone shape that then were used for the analysis of group differences. Our results indicate that RBM has potential to provide a standardized approach to shape analysis of bones of the human wrist. We demonstrate the performance of RBM for examining group differences in wrist bone shapes based on sex and between those of the right and left wrists in healthy individuals. We also present data to show the application of RBM for tracking bone erosion status in rheumatoid arthritis.
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Joshi AA, Murray TF, Aldrich JV. Structure-Activity Relationships of the Peptide Kappa Opioid Receptor Antagonist Zyklophin. J Med Chem 2015; 58:8783-95. [PMID: 26491810 DOI: 10.1021/jm501827k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The dynorphin (Dyn) A analogue zyklophin ([N-benzyl-Tyr(1)-cyclo(d-Asp(5),Dap(8))]dynorphin A(1-11)NH2) is a kappa opioid receptor (KOR)-selective antagonist in vitro, is active in vivo, and antagonizes KOR in the CNS after systemic administration. Hence, we synthesized zyklophin analogues to explore the structure-activity relationships of this peptide. The synthesis of selected analogues required modification to introduce the N-terminal amino acid due to poor solubility and/or to avoid epimerization of this residue. Among the N-terminal modifications, the N-phenethyl and N-cyclopropylmethyl substitutions resulted in analogues with the highest KOR affinities. Pharmacological results for the alanine-substituted analogues indicated that Phe(4) and Arg(6), but interestingly not the Tyr(1) phenol, are important for zyklophin's KOR affinity and that Arg(7) was important for KOR antagonist activity. In the GTPγS assay, while all of the cyclic analogues exhibited negligible KOR efficacy, the N-cyclopropylmethyl-Tyr(1) and N-benzyl-Phe(1) analogues were 28- and 11-fold more potent KOR antagonists, respectively, than zyklophin.
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- Anand A Joshi
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, The University of Kansas , Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Creighton University , Omaha, Nebraska 68102, United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, The University of Kansas , Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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Wei M, Joshi AA, Zhang M, Mei L, Manis FR, He Q, Beattie RL, Xue G, Shattuck DW, Leahy RM, Xue F, Houston SM, Chen C, Dong Q, Lu ZL. How age of acquisition influences brain architecture in bilinguals. J Neurolinguistics 2015; 36:35-55. [PMID: 27695193 PMCID: PMC5045052 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2015.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In the present study, we explored how Age of Acquisition (AoA) of L2 affected brain structures in bilingual individuals. Thirty-six native English speakers who were bilingual were scanned with high resolution MRI. After MRI signal intensity inhomogeneity correction, we applied both voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and surface-based morphometry (SBM) approaches to the data. VBM analysis was performed using FSL's standard VBM processing pipeline. For the SBM analysis, we utilized a semi-automated sulci delineation procedure, registered the brains to an atlas, and extracted measures of twenty four pre-selected regions of interest. We addressed three questions: (1) Which areas are more susceptible to differences in AoA? (2) How do AoA, proficiency and current level of exposure work together in predicting structural differences in the brain? And (3) What is the direction of the effect of AoA on regional volumetric and surface measures? Both VBM and SBM results suggested that earlier second language exposure was associated with larger volumes in the right parietal cortex. Consistently, SBM showed that the cortical area of the right superior parietal lobule increased as AoA decreased. In contrast, in the right pars orbitalis of the inferior frontal gyrus, AoA, proficiency, and current level of exposure are equally important in accounting for the structural differences. We interpret our results in terms of current theory and research on the effects of L2 learning on brain structures and functions.
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- Miao Wei
- Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2564, USA
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- National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Center for Studies of Psychological Application and School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061, USA
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- Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging and Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7334, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2564, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging and Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Martínez K, Madsen SK, Joshi AA, Joshi SH, Román FJ, Villalon-Reina J, Burgaleta M, Karama S, Janssen J, Marinetto E, Desco M, Thompson PM, Colom R. Reproducibility of brain-cognition relationships using three cortical surface-based protocols: An exhaustive analysis based on cortical thickness. Hum Brain Mapp 2015; 36:3227-45. [PMID: 26032714 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2014] [Revised: 04/20/2015] [Accepted: 05/04/2015] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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People differ in their cognitive functioning. This variability has been exhaustively examined at the behavioral, neural and genetic level to uncover the mechanisms by which some individuals are more cognitively efficient than others. Studies investigating the neural underpinnings of interindividual differences in cognition aim to establish a reliable nexus between functional/structural properties of a given brain network and higher order cognitive performance. However, these studies have produced inconsistent results, which might be partly attributed to methodological variations. In the current study, 82 healthy young participants underwent MRI scanning and completed a comprehensive cognitive battery including measurements of fluid, crystallized, and spatial intelligence, along with working memory capacity/executive updating, controlled attention, and processing speed. The cognitive scores were obtained by confirmatory factor analyses. T1 -weighted images were processed using three different surface-based morphometry (SBM) pipelines, varying in their degree of user intervention, for obtaining measures of cortical thickness (CT) across the brain surface. Distribution and variability of CT and CT-cognition relationships were systematically compared across pipelines and between two cognitively/demographically matched samples to overcome potential sources of variability affecting the reproducibility of findings. We demonstrated that estimation of CT was not consistent across methods. In addition, among SBM methods, there was considerable variation in the spatial pattern of CT-cognition relationships. Finally, within each SBM method, results did not replicate in matched subsamples.
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- Kenia Martínez
- Departamento de Psicología Biológica y de la Salud, Facultad De Psicología, Universidad Autónoma De Madrid, Spain.,Departamento de Psiquiatría del Niño y del Adolescente, Instituto De Investigación Sanitaria Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
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- USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Imaging Genetics Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Biomedical Imaging Group, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Neurology, Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, University of California Los Angeles, California
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- Departamento de Psicología Biológica y de la Salud, Facultad De Psicología, Universidad Autónoma De Madrid, Spain
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- Biomedical Imaging Group, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), Montreal, Canada
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- Departamento de Psiquiatría del Niño y del Adolescente, Instituto De Investigación Sanitaria Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain.,Ciber del área de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain.,Department of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Departamento de Psiquiatría del Niño y del Adolescente, Instituto De Investigación Sanitaria Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain.,Departamento De Bioingeniería E Ingeniería Aeroespacial, Universidad Carlos III De Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Ciber del área de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain.,Departamento De Bioingeniería E Ingeniería Aeroespacial, Universidad Carlos III De Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Unidad De Medicina Y Cirugía Experimental, Instituto De Investigación Sanitaria Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
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- Biomedical Imaging Group, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Departamento de Psicología Biológica y de la Salud, Facultad De Psicología, Universidad Autónoma De Madrid, Spain
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Habibi A, Ilari B, Crimi K, Metke M, Kaplan JT, Joshi AA, Leahy RM, Shattuck DW, Choi SY, Haldar JP, Ficek B, Damasio A, Damasio H. An equal start: absence of group differences in cognitive, social, and neural measures prior to music or sports training in children. Front Hum Neurosci 2014; 8:690. [PMID: 25249961 PMCID: PMC4158792 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2014] [Accepted: 08/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Several studies comparing adult musicians and non-musicians have provided compelling evidence for functional and anatomical differences in the brain systems engaged by musical training. It is not known, however, whether those differences result from long-term musical training or from pre-existing traits favoring musicality. In an attempt to begin addressing this question, we have launched a longitudinal investigation of the effects of childhood music training on cognitive, social and neural development. We compared a group of 6- to 7-year old children at the start of intense after-school musical training, with two groups of children: one involved in high intensity sports training but not musical training, another not involved in any systematic training. All children were tested with a comprehensive battery of cognitive, motor, musical, emotional, and social assessments and underwent magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography. Our first objective was to determine whether children who participate in musical training were different, prior to training, from children in the control groups in terms of cognitive, motor, musical, emotional, and social behavior measures as well as in structural and functional brain measures. Our second objective was to determine whether musical skills, as measured by a music perception assessment prior to training, correlates with emotional and social outcome measures that have been shown to be associated with musical training. We found no neural, cognitive, motor, emotional, or social differences among the three groups. In addition, there was no correlation between music perception skills and any of the social or emotional measures. These results provide a baseline for an ongoing longitudinal investigation of the effects of music training.
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- Assal Habibi
- Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA ; Signal and Image Processing Institute, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA ; Signal and Image Processing Institute, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA ; Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Prasad G, Joshi AA, Feng A, Toga AW, Thompson PM, Terzopoulos D. Skull-stripping with machine learning deformable organisms. J Neurosci Methods 2014; 236:114-24. [PMID: 25124851 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.07.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2013] [Revised: 07/07/2014] [Accepted: 07/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Segmentation methods for medical images may not generalize well to new data sets or new tasks, hampering their utility. We attempt to remedy these issues using deformable organisms to create an easily customizable segmentation plan. We validate our framework by creating a plan to locate the brain in 3D magnetic resonance images of the head (skull-stripping). NEW METHOD Our method borrows ideas from artificial life to govern a set of deformable models. We use control processes such as sensing, proactive planning, reactive behavior, and knowledge representation to segment an image. The image may have landmarks and features specific to that dataset; these may be easily incorporated into the plan. In addition, we use a machine learning method to make our segmentation more accurate. RESULTS Our method had the least Hausdorff distance error, but included slightly less brain voxels (false negatives). It also had the lowest false positive error and performed on par to skull-stripping specific method on other metrics. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHOD(S) We tested our method on 838 T1-weighted images, evaluating results using distance and overlap error metrics based on expert gold standard segmentations. We evaluated the results before and after the learning step to quantify its benefit; we also compare our results to three other widely used methods: BSE, BET, and the Hybrid Watershed algorithm. CONCLUSIONS Our framework captures diverse categories of information needed for brain segmentation and will provide a foundation for tackling a wealth of segmentation problems.
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- Gautam Prasad
- Imaging Genetics Center & Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center & Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center & Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center & Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Santos J, Chaudhari AJ, Joshi AA, Ferrero A, Yang K, Boone JM, Badawi RD. Non-rigid registration of serial dedicated breast CT, longitudinal dedicated breast CT and PET/CT images using the diffeomorphic demons method. Phys Med 2014; 30:713-7. [PMID: 25022452 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2014.06.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2013] [Revised: 02/20/2014] [Accepted: 06/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES Dedicated breast CT and PET/CT scanners provide detailed 3D anatomical and functional imaging data sets and are currently being investigated for applications in breast cancer management such as diagnosis, monitoring response to therapy and radiation therapy planning. Our objective was to evaluate the performance of the diffeomorphic demons (DD) non-rigid image registration method to spatially align 3D serial (pre- and post-contrast) dedicated breast computed tomography (CT), and longitudinally-acquired dedicated 3D breast CT and positron emission tomography (PET)/CT images. METHODS The algorithmic parameters of the DD method were optimized for the alignment of dedicated breast CT images using training data and fixed. The performance of the method for image alignment was quantitatively evaluated using three separate data sets; (1) serial breast CT pre- and post-contrast images of 20 women, (2) breast CT images of 20 women acquired before and after repositioning the subject on the scanner, and (3) dedicated breast PET/CT images of 7 women undergoing neo-adjuvant chemotherapy acquired pre-treatment and after 1 cycle of therapy. RESULTS The DD registration method outperformed no registration (p < 0.001) and conventional affine registration (p ≤ 0.002) for serial and longitudinal breast CT and PET/CT image alignment. In spite of the large size of the imaging data, the computational cost of the DD method was found to be reasonable (3-5 min). CONCLUSIONS Co-registration of dedicated breast CT and PET/CT images can be performed rapidly and reliably using the DD method. This is the first study evaluating the DD registration method for the alignment of dedicated breast CT and PET/CT images.
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- Jonathan Santos
- Department of Radiology, University of California-Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California-Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California-Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California-Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California-Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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We present a method based on spectral theory for the shape analysis of carpal bones of the human wrist. We represent the cortical surface of the carpal bone in a coordinate system based on the eigensystem of the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation. We employ a metric--global point signature (GPS)--that exploits the scale and isometric invariance of eigenfunctions to quantify overall bone shape. We use a fast finite-element-method to compute the GPS metric. We capitalize upon the properties of GPS representation--such as stability, a standard Euclidean (ℓ(2)) metric definition, and invariance to scaling, translation and rotation--to perform shape analysis of the carpal bones of ten women and ten men from a publicly-available database. We demonstrate the utility of the proposed GPS representation to provide a means for comparing shapes of the carpal bones across populations.
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- Abhijit J Chaudhari
- Department of Radiology, University of California-Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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Bhushan C, Joshi AA, Leahy RM, Haldar JP. Improved B0 -distortion correction in diffusion MRI using interlaced q-space sampling and constrained reconstruction. Magn Reson Med 2013; 72:1218-32. [PMID: 24464424 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2013] [Revised: 09/19/2013] [Accepted: 10/11/2013] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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PURPOSE To enable high-quality correction of susceptibility-induced geometric distortion artifacts in diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images without increasing scan time. THEORY AND METHODS A new method for distortion correction is proposed based on subsampling a generalized version of the state-of-the-art reversed-gradient distortion correction method. Rather than acquire each q-space sample multiple times with different distortions (as in the conventional reversed-gradient method), we sample each q-space point once with an interlaced sampling scheme that measures different distortions at different q-space locations. Distortion correction is achieved using a novel constrained reconstruction formulation that leverages the smoothness of diffusion data in q-space. RESULTS The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated with simulated and in vivo diffusion MRI data. The proposed method is substantially faster than the reversed-gradient method, and can also provide smaller intensity errors in the corrected images and smaller errors in derived quantitative diffusion parameters. CONCLUSION The proposed method enables state-of-the-art distortion correction performance without increasing data acquisition time.
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- Chitresh Bhushan
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Ashrafulla S, Haldar JP, Joshi AA, Leahy RM. Canonical Granger causality between regions of interest. Neuroimage 2013; 83:189-99. [PMID: 23811410 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.06.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2013] [Revised: 06/14/2013] [Accepted: 06/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Estimating and modeling functional connectivity in the brain is a challenging problem with potential applications in the understanding of brain organization and various neurological and neuropsychological conditions. An important objective in connectivity analysis is to determine the connections between regions of interest in the brain. However, traditional functional connectivity analyses have frequently focused on modeling interactions between time series recordings at individual sensors, voxels, or vertices despite the fact that a single region of interest will often include multiple such recordings. In this paper, we present a novel measure of interaction between regions of interest rather than individual signals. The proposed measure, termed canonical Granger causality, combines ideas from canonical correlation and Granger causality analysis to yield a measure that reflects directed causality between two regions of interest. In particular, canonical Granger causality uses optimized linear combinations of signals from each region of interest to enable accurate causality measurements from substantially less data compared to alternative multivariate methods that have previously been proposed for this scenario. The optimized linear combinations are obtained using a variation of a technique developed for optimization on the Stiefel manifold. We demonstrate the advantages of canonical Granger causality in comparison to alternative causality measures for a range of different simulated datasets. We also apply the proposed measure to local field potential data recorded in a macaque brain during a visuomotor task. Results demonstrate that canonical Granger causality can be used to identify causal relationships between striate and prestriate cortexes in cases where standard Granger causality is unable to identify statistically significant interactions.
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- Syed Ashrafulla
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Joshi AA, Leahy RM, Badawi RD, Chaudhari AJ. MORPHOMETRY FOR EARLY MONITORING OF TREATMENT RESPONSE IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. Proc IEEE Int Symp Biomed Imaging 2013:121-124. [PMID: 24026194 DOI: 10.1109/isbi.2013.6556427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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New aggressive therapeutic options have recently become available to treat inflammatory arthritis (IA) and rheumatoid arthritis in particular. These treatments not only control joint destruction, they may also aid in new bone formation at sites of eroded bone. Separation of non-responders from responders to these treatments, is critical, and is known to lead to reduced disease burden, toxicity, side-effects and overall cost. The bones of the wrist are early targets of IA and are known to show response to therapy early. In this paper, we develop a method to quantify point-wise erosive changes of wrist bones in IA patients undergoing treatment. The method employs 3D registration-based morphometric analysis. Our results indicate that the proposed method has potential to improve sensitivity to small, early changes in bone erosion status. This study has potential to provide new imaging biomarkers to be used in clinical trials evaluating the efficacy of new arthritis drugs.
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- Anand A Joshi
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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Bhushan C, Haldar JP, Joshi AA, Leahy RM. Correcting Susceptibility-Induced Distortion in Diffusion-Weighted MRI using Constrained Nonrigid Registration. Signal Inf Process Assoc Annu Summit Conf APSIPA Asia Pac 2012; 2012:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6412009. [PMID: 26767197 PMCID: PMC4708288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Echo Planar Imaging (EPI) is the standard pulse sequence used in fast diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), but is sensitive to susceptibility-induced inhomogeneities in the main B0 magnetic field. In diffusion MRI of the human head, this leads to geometric distortion of the brain in reconstructed diffusion images, and a lack of correspondence with undistorted high-resolution MRI scans that are used to define the subject anatomy. In this study, we have tested an approach to estimate and correct this distortion of using a non-linear registration framework based on mutual-information. We use the commonly acquired anatomical image as the registration-template and constrain the registration using spatial regularization and physics-based information about the characteristics of the distortion, but without requiring any additional data collection. Results are shown for simulated and experimental data.
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- Chitresh Bhushan
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Bradoo RA, Muranjan SN, Nerurkar NK, Joshi AA, Achar PH. Endoscopic excision of Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma - A comprehensive approach. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2012; 55:255-62. [PMID: 23119995 DOI: 10.1007/bf02992432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Endoscopie excision of Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma (JNA) was carried out with (he objective of minimizing blood loss and attempting a complete excision of the tumor under direct vision with the help of Hopkins telescopes. STUDY DESIGN A prospective 4 year study of 23 cases of JNA treated by endoscopie excision is presented. Of these, 18 were treated by endoscopie excision alone. The remaining 5 were treated with a two staged approach either by mid-facial degloving followed by endoscopy or by 2 endoscopie procedures. RESULTS The tumor was excised completely in 17 out of the total 18 cases that were treated exclusively by endoscopy. One case has shown a recurrence. The 5 cases treated by the staged approach represented very large tumours or tumours with intra-cranial extensions. In I of these cases, inoperable tumor remnant engulfing the internal carotid artery was treated by radiotherapy post-operatively. CONCLUSION With successful excision of JNA in all but one case, we could reasonably conclude, that endoscopie excision of JNA could become a safer and a more precise alternative to open surgery provided it is practiced judiciously by surgeons who have considerable experience in endoscopie surgery and the necessary backup to convert to open surgery should the need arise.
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- R A Bradoo
- Dr. C.G. Road, Chembur, 400 074 Mumbai, India
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Despite accumulating evidence of structural deficits in individuals with psychopathy, especially in frontal regions, our understanding of systems-level disturbances in cortical networks remains limited. We applied novel graph theory-based methods to assess information flow and connectivity based on cortical thickness measures in 55 individuals with psychopathy and 47 normal controls. Compared with controls, the psychopathy group showed significantly altered interregional connectivity patterns. Furthermore, bilateral superior frontal cortices in the frontal network were identified as information flow control hubs in the psychopathy group in contrast to bilateral inferior frontal and medial orbitofrontal cortices as network hubs of the controls. Frontal information flow and connectivity may have a significant role in the neuropathology of psychopathy.
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- Yaling Yang
- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, 1721 Speyer Lane, Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, CA 90278, USA.
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Joshi AA, Hu HH, Leahy RM, Goran MI, Nayak KS. Automatic intra-subject registration-based segmentation of abdominal fat from water-fat MRI. J Magn Reson Imaging 2012; 37:423-30. [PMID: 23011805 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2010] [Accepted: 08/07/2012] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To develop an automatic registration-based segmentation algorithm for measuring abdominal adipose tissue depot volumes and organ fat fraction content from three-dimensional (3D) water-fat MRI data, and to evaluate its performance against manual segmentation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data were obtained from 11 subjects at two time points with intermediate repositioning, and from four subjects before and after a meal with repositioning. Imaging was performed on a 3 Tesla MRI, using the IDEAL chemical-shift water-fat pulse sequence. Adipose tissue (subcutaneous--SAT, visceral--VAT) and organs (liver, pancreas) were manually segmented twice for each scan by a single trained observer. Automated segmentations of each subject's second scan were generated using a nonrigid volume registration algorithm for water-fat MRI images that used a b-spline basis for deformation and minimized image dissimilarity after the deformation. Manual and automated segmentations were compared using Dice coefficients and linear regression of SAT and VAT volumes, organ volumes, and hepatic and pancreatic fat fractions (HFF, PFF). RESULTS Manual segmentations from the 11 repositioned subjects exhibited strong repeatability and set performance benchmarks. The average Dice coefficients were 0.9747 (SAT), 0.9424 (VAT), 0.9404 (liver), and 0.8205 (pancreas); the linear correlation coefficients were 0.9994 (SAT volume), 0.9974 (VAT volume), 0.9885 (liver volume), 0.9782 (pancreas volume), 0.9996 (HFF), and 0.9660 (PFF). When comparing manual and automated segmentations, the average Dice coefficients were 0.9043 (SAT volume), 0.8235 (VAT), 0.8942 (liver), and 0.7168 (pancreas); the linear correlation coefficients were 0.9493 (SAT volume), 0.9982 (VAT volume), 0.9326 (liver volume), 0.8876 (pancreas volume), 0.9972 (HFF), and 0.8617 (PFF). In the four pre- and post-prandial subjects, the Dice coefficients were 0.9024 (SAT), 0.7781 (VAT), 0.8799 (liver), and 0.5179 (pancreas); the linear correlation coefficients were 0.9889, 0.9902 (SAT, and VAT volume), 0.9523 (liver volume), 0.8760 (pancreas volume), 0.9991 (HFF), and 0.6338 (PFF). CONCLUSION Automated intra-subject registration-based segmentation is potentially suitable for the quantification of abdominal and organ fat and achieves comparable quantitative endpoints with respect to manual segmentation.
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- Anand A Joshi
- Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-2564, USA.
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Registration and delineation of anatomical features in MRI of the human brain play an important role in the investigation of brain development and disease. Accurate, automatic and computationally efficient cortical surface registration and delineation of surface-based landmarks, including regions of interest (ROIs) and sulcal curves (sulci), remain challenging problems due to substantial variation in the shapes of these features across populations. We present a method that performs a fast and accurate registration, labeling and sulcal delineation of brain images. The new method presented in this paper uses a multiresolution, curvature based approach to perform a registration of a subject brain surface model to a delineated atlas surface model; the atlas ROIs and sulcal curves are then mapped to the subject brain surface. A geodesic curvature flow on the cortical surface is then used to refine the locations of the sulcal curves sulci and label boundaries further, such that they follow the true sulcal fundi more closely. The flow is formulated using a level set based method on the cortical surface, which represents the curves as zero level sets. We also incorporate a curvature based weighting that drives the curves to the bottoms of the sulcal valleys in the cortical folds. Finally, we validate our new approach by comparing sets of automatically delineated sulcal curves it produced to corresponding sets of manually delineated sulcal curves. Our results indicate that the proposed method is able to find these landmarks accurately.
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- Anand A Joshi
- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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We present a diffeomorphic approach for constructing intrinsic shape atlases of sulci on the human cortex. Sulci are represented as square-root velocity functions of continuous open curves in R³, and their shapes are studied as functional representations of an infinite-dimensional sphere. This spherical manifold has some advantageous properties--it is equipped with a Riemannian L² metric on the tangent space and facilitates computational analyses and correspondences between sulcal shapes. Sulcal shape mapping is achieved by computing geodesics in the quotient space of shapes modulo scales, translations, rigid rotations, and reparameterizations. The resulting sulcal shape atlas preserves important local geometry inherently present in the sample population. The sulcal shape atlas is integrated in a cortical registration framework and exhibits better geometric matching compared to the conventional euclidean method. We demonstrate experimental results for sulcal shape mapping, cortical surface registration, and sulcal classification for two different surface extraction protocols for separate subject populations.
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- Shantanu H. Joshi
- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, 635 Charles Young Drive South, Suite 225, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Brown University Providence, RI 02912 USA
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- Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California 3740 McClintock Ave., Room 400, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
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- Shandong Medical Imaging Research Institute, Jinan, Shandong 250021, China
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, 635 Charles Young Drive South, Suite 225, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, 635 Charles Young Drive South, Suite 225, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, 635 Charles Young Drive South, Suite 225, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
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- Division of Brain Mapping, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, 635 Charles Young Drive South, Suite 225, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
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