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Alae Eddine EB, Scheiber C, Grenier T, Janier M, Flaus A. CT-guided spatial normalization of nuclear hybrid imaging adapted to enlarged ventricles: Impact on striatal uptake quantification. Neuroimage 2024; 294:120631. [PMID: 38701993 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2023] [Revised: 04/25/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/06/2024] Open
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Spatial normalization is a prerequisite step for the quantitative analysis of SPECT or PET brain images using volume-of-interest (VOI) template or voxel-based analysis. MRI-guided spatial normalization is the gold standard, but the wide use of PET/CT or SPECT/CT in routine clinical practice makes CT-guided spatial normalization a necessary alternative. Ventricular enlargement is observed with aging, and it hampers the spatial normalization of the lateral ventricles and striatal regions, limiting their analysis. The aim of the present study was to propose a robust spatial normalization method based on CT scans that takes into account features of the aging brain to reduce bias in the CT-guided striatal analysis of SPECT images. METHODS We propose an enhanced CT-guided spatial normalization pipeline based on SPM12. Performance of the proposed pipeline was assessed on visually normal [123I]-FP-CIT SPECT/CT images. SPM12 default CT-guided spatial normalization was used as reference method. The metrics assessed were the overlap between the spatially normalized lateral ventricles and caudate/putamen VOIs, and the computation of caudate and putamen specific binding ratios (SBR). RESULTS In total 231 subjects (mean age ± SD = 61.9 ± 15.5 years) were included in the statistical analysis. The mean overlap between the spatially normalized lateral ventricles of subjects and the caudate VOI and the mean SBR of caudate were respectively 38.40 % (± SD = 19.48 %) of the VOI and 1.77 (± 0.79) when performing SPM12 default spatial normalization. The mean overlap decreased to 9.13 % (± SD = 1.41 %, P < 0.001) of the VOI and the SBR of caudate increased to 2.38 (± 0.51, P < 0.0001) when performing the proposed pipeline. Spatially normalized lateral ventricles did not overlap with putamen VOI using either method. The mean putamen SBR value derived from the proposed spatial normalization (2.75 ± 0.54) was not significantly different from that derived from the default SPM12 spatial normalization (2.83 ± 0.52, P > 0.05). CONCLUSION The automatic CT-guided spatial normalization used herein led to a less biased spatial normalization of SPECT images, hence an improved semi-quantitative analysis. The proposed pipeline could be implemented in clinical routine to perform a more robust SBR computation using hybrid imaging.
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- El Barkaoui Alae Eddine
- Département de médecine nucléaire, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Bron, France; INSA-Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Inserm, CREATIS UMR 5220, U1294, F-69100, LYON, France
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- Département de médecine nucléaire, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Bron, France; Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, UMR 5229, CNRS, CRNL, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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- INSA-Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Inserm, CREATIS UMR 5220, U1294, F-69100, LYON, France
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- Département de médecine nucléaire, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Bron, France; Faculté de Médecine Lyon Est, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Laboratoire d'Automatique, de génie des procédés et de génie pharmaceutique, LAGEPP, UMR 5007 UCBL1 - CNRS, Lyon, France
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- Département de médecine nucléaire, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Bron, France; Faculté de Médecine Lyon Est, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, INSERM U1028/CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France.
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Khalilian M, Roussel M, Godefroy O, Aarabi A. Predicting functional impairments with lesion-derived disconnectome mapping: Validation in stroke patients with motor deficits. Eur J Neurosci 2024; 59:3074-3092. [PMID: 38578844 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.16334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Revised: 02/24/2024] [Accepted: 03/07/2024] [Indexed: 04/07/2024]
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Focal structural damage to white matter tracts can result in functional deficits in stroke patients. Traditional voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping is commonly used to localize brain structures linked to neurological deficits. Emerging evidence suggests that the impact of structural focal damage may extend beyond immediate lesion sites. In this study, we present a disconnectome mapping approach based on support vector regression (SVR) to identify brain structures and white matter pathways associated with functional deficits in stroke patients. For clinical validation, we utilized imaging data from 340 stroke patients exhibiting motor deficits. A disconnectome map was initially derived from lesions for each patient. Bootstrap sampling was then employed to balance the sample size between a minority group of patients exhibiting right or left motor deficits and those without deficits. Subsequently, SVR analysis was used to identify voxels associated with motor deficits (p < .005). Our disconnectome-based analysis significantly outperformed alternative lesion-symptom approaches in identifying major white matter pathways within the corticospinal tracts associated with upper-lower limb motor deficits. Bootstrapping significantly increased the sensitivity (80%-87%) for identifying patients with motor deficits, with a minimum lesion size of 32 and 235 mm3 for the right and left motor deficit, respectively. Overall, the lesion-based methods achieved lower sensitivities compared with those based on disconnection maps. The primary contribution of our approach lies in introducing a bootstrapped disconnectome-based mapping approach to identify lesion-derived white matter disconnections associated with functional deficits, particularly efficient in handling imbalanced data.
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- Maedeh Khalilian
- Laboratory of Functional Neuroscience and Pathologies (UR UPJV 4559), University Research Center (CURS), University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France
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- Laboratory of Functional Neuroscience and Pathologies (UR UPJV 4559), University Research Center (CURS), University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France
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- Laboratory of Functional Neuroscience and Pathologies (UR UPJV 4559), University Research Center (CURS), University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France
- Neurology Department, Amiens University Hospital, Amiens, France
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- Laboratory of Functional Neuroscience and Pathologies (UR UPJV 4559), University Research Center (CURS), University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France
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Iandolo R, Avci E, Bommarito G, Sandvig I, Rohweder G, Sandvig A. Characterizing upper extremity fine motor function in the presence of white matter hyperintensities: A 7 T MRI cross-sectional study in older adults. Neuroimage Clin 2024; 41:103569. [PMID: 38281363 PMCID: PMC10839532 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2023] [Revised: 01/19/2024] [Accepted: 01/21/2024] [Indexed: 01/30/2024]
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BACKGROUND White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are a prevalent radiographic finding in the aging brain studies. Research on WMH association with motor impairment is mostly focused on the lower-extremity function and further investigation on the upper-extremity is needed. How different degrees of WMH burden impact the network of activation recruited during upper limb motor performance could provide further insight on the complex mechanisms of WMH pathophysiology and its interaction with aging and neurological disease processes. METHODS 40 healthy elderly subjects without a neurological/psychiatric diagnosis were included in the study (16F, mean age 69.3 years). All subjects underwent ultra-high field 7 T MRI including structural and finger tapping task-fMRI. First, we quantified the WMH lesion load and its spatial distribution. Secondly, we performed a data-driven stratification of the subjects according to their periventricular and deep WMH burdens. Thirdly, we investigated the distribution of neural recruitment and the corresponding activity assessed through BOLD signal changes among different brain regions for groups of subjects. We clustered the degree of WMH based on location, numbers, and volume into three categories; ranging from mild, moderate, and severe. Finally, we explored how the spatial distribution of WMH, and activity elicited during task-fMRI relate to motor function, measured with the 9-Hole Peg Test. RESULTS Within our population, we found three subgroups of subjects, partitioned according to their periventricular and deep WMH lesion load. We found decreased activity in several frontal and cingulate cortex areas in subjects with a severe WMH burden. No statistically significant associations were found when performing the brain-behavior statistical analysis for structural or functional data. CONCLUSION WMH burden has an effect on brain activity during fine motor control and the activity changes are associated with varying degrees of the total burden and distributions of WMH lesions. Collectively, our results shed new light on the potential impact of WMH on motor function in the context of aging and neurodegeneration.
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- Riccardo Iandolo
- Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
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- Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway; Stroke Unit, Department of Medicine, St Olav's University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway; Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, St. Olav's University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway; Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Division of Neuro, Head and Neck, Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden.
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Khalilian M, Toba MN, Roussel M, Tasseel-Ponche S, Godefroy O, Aarabi A. Age-related differences in structural and resting-state functional brain network organization across the adult lifespan: A cross-sectional study. AGING BRAIN 2024; 5:100105. [PMID: 38273866 PMCID: PMC10809105 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbas.2023.100105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2023] [Revised: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024] Open
Abstract
We investigated age-related trends in the topology and hierarchical organization of brain structural and functional networks using diffusion-weighted imaging and resting-state fMRI data from a large cohort of healthy aging adults. At the cross-modal level, we explored age-related patterns in the RC involvement of different functional subsystems using a high-resolution functional parcellation. We further assessed age-related differences in the structure-function coupling as well as the network vulnerability to damage to rich club connectivity. Regardless of age, the structural and functional brain networks exhibited a rich club organization and small-world topology. In older individuals, we observed reduced integration and segregation within the frontal-occipital regions and the cerebellum along the brain's medial axis. Additionally, functional brain networks displayed decreased integration and increased segregation in the prefrontal, centrotemporal, and occipital regions, and the cerebellum. In older subjects, structural networks also exhibited decreased within-network and increased between-network RC connectivity. Furthermore, both within-network and between-network RC connectivity decreased in functional networks with age. An age-related decline in structure-function coupling was observed within sensory-motor, cognitive, and subcortical networks. The structural network exhibited greater vulnerability to damage to RC connectivity within the language-auditory, visual, and subcortical networks. Similarly, for functional networks, increased vulnerability was observed with damage to RC connectivity in the cerebellum, language-auditory, and sensory-motor networks. Overall, the network vulnerability decreased significantly in subjects older than 70 in both networks. Our findings underscore significant age-related differences in both brain functional and structural RC connectivity, with distinct patterns observed across the adult lifespan.
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- Maedeh Khalilian
- Laboratory of Functional Neuroscience and Pathologies (UR UPJV 4559), University Research Center (CURS), University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France
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- Laboratory of Functional Neuroscience and Pathologies (UR UPJV 4559), University Research Center (CURS), University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France
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- Laboratory of Functional Neuroscience and Pathologies (UR UPJV 4559), University Research Center (CURS), University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France
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- Laboratory of Functional Neuroscience and Pathologies (UR UPJV 4559), University Research Center (CURS), University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France
- Neurological Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department, Amiens University Hospital, University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France
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- Laboratory of Functional Neuroscience and Pathologies (UR UPJV 4559), University Research Center (CURS), University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France
- Neurology Department, Amiens University Hospital, Amiens, France
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- Laboratory of Functional Neuroscience and Pathologies (UR UPJV 4559), University Research Center (CURS), University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France
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Wu Y, Ridwan AR, Niaz MR, Bennett DA, Arfanakis K. High resolution 0.5mm isotropic T 1-weighted and diffusion tensor templates of the brain of non-demented older adults in a common space for the MIITRA atlas. Neuroimage 2023; 282:120387. [PMID: 37783362 PMCID: PMC10625170 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Accepted: 09/22/2023] [Indexed: 10/04/2023] Open
Abstract
High quality, high resolution T1-weighted (T1w) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) brain templates located in a common space can enhance the sensitivity and precision of template-based neuroimaging studies. However, such multimodal templates have not been constructed for the older adult brain. The purpose of this work which is part of the MIITRA atlas project was twofold: (A) to develop 0.5 mm isotropic resolution T1w and DTI templates that are representative of the brain of non-demented older adults and are located in the same space, using advanced multimodal template construction techniques and principles of super resolution on data from a large, diverse, community cohort of 400 non-demented older adults, and (B) to systematically compare the new templates to other standardized templates. It was demonstrated that the new MIITRA-0.5mm T1w and DTI templates are well-matched in space, exhibit good definition of brain structures, including fine structures, exhibit higher image sharpness than other standardized templates, and are free of artifacts. The MIITRA-0.5mm T1w and DTI templates allowed higher intra-modality inter-subject spatial normalization precision as well as higher inter-modality intra-subject spatial matching of older adult T1w and DTI data compared to other available templates. Consequently, MIITRA-0.5mm templates allowed detection of smaller inter-group differences for older adult data compared to other templates. The MIITRA-0.5mm templates were also shown to be most representative of the brain of non-demented older adults compared to other templates with submillimeter resolution. The new templates constructed in this work constitute two of the final products of the MIITRA atlas project and are anticipated to have important implications for the sensitivity and precision of studies on older adults.
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- Yingjuan Wu
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, United States; Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States.
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Ding J, Middleton EL, Mirman D. Impaired discourse content in aphasia is associated with frontal white matter damage. Brain Commun 2023; 5:fcad310. [PMID: 38025278 PMCID: PMC10664411 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcad310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Revised: 09/04/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Aphasia is a common consequence of stroke with severe impacts on employability, social interactions and quality of life. Producing discourse-relevant information in a real-world setting is the most important aspect of recovery because it is critical to successful communication. This study sought to identify the lesion correlates of impaired production of relevant information in spoken discourse in a large, unselected sample of participants with post-stroke aphasia. Spoken discourse (n = 80) and structural brain scans (n = 66) from participants with aphasia following left hemisphere stroke were analysed. Each participant provided 10 samples of spoken discourse elicited in three different genres, and 'correct information unit' analysis was used to quantify the informativeness of speech samples. The lesion correlates were identified using multivariate lesion-symptom mapping, voxel-wise disconnection and tract-wise analyses. Amount and speed of relevant information were highly correlated across different genres and with total lesion size. The analyses of lesion correlates converged on the same pattern: impaired production of relevant information was associated with damage to anterior dorsal white matter pathways, specifically the arcuate fasciculus, frontal aslant tract and superior longitudinal fasciculus. Damage to these pathways may be a useful biomarker for impaired informative spoken discourse and informs development of neurorehabilitation strategies.
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- Junhua Ding
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
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Poole VN, Oveisgharan S, Yu L, Dawe RJ, Leurgans SE, Zhang S, Arfanakis K, Buchman AS, Bennett DA. Volumetric brain correlates of gait associated with cognitive decline in community-dwelling older adults. Front Aging Neurosci 2023; 15:1194986. [PMID: 37860122 PMCID: PMC10582745 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1194986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2023] [Accepted: 09/14/2023] [Indexed: 10/21/2023] Open
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Objective To determine the extent to which the regional brain volumes associated with slow gait speed can inform subsequent cognitive decline in older adults from the Rush Memory and Aging Project. Approach We utilized deformation-based morphometry (DBM) in a whole-brain exploratory approach to identify the regional brain volumes associated with gait speed assessed over a short distance during an in-home assessment. We created deformation scores to summarize the gait-associated regions and entered the scores into a series of longitudinal mixed effects models to determine the extent to which deformation predicted change in cognition over time, controlling for associations between gait and cognition. Results In 438 older adults (81 ± 7; 76% female), DBM revealed that slower gait speed was associated with smaller volumes across frontal white matter, temporal grey matter, and subcortical areas and larger volumes in the ventricles during the same testing cycle. When a subset was followed over multiple (5 ± 2) years, slower gait speed was also associated with annual declines in global cognition, executive functioning, and memory abilities. Several of the gait-related brain structures were associated with these declines in cognition; however, larger ventricles and smaller medial temporal lobe volumes proved most robust and attenuated the association between slow gait and cognitive decline. Conclusion Regional brain volumes in the ventricles and temporal lobe associated with both slow gait speed and faster cognitive decline have potential to improve risk stratification for cognitive decline in older adults.
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- Victoria N. Poole
- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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Hua AY, Roy ARK, Kosik EL, Morris NA, Chow TE, Lukic S, Montembeault M, Borghesani V, Younes K, Kramer JH, Seeley WW, Perry DC, Miller ZA, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Rankin KP, Gorno-Tempini ML, Sturm VE. Diminished baseline autonomic outflow in semantic dementia relates to left-lateralized insula atrophy. Neuroimage Clin 2023; 40:103522. [PMID: 37820490 PMCID: PMC10582496 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Revised: 08/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/30/2023] [Indexed: 10/13/2023]
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In semantic dementia (SD), asymmetric degeneration of the anterior temporal lobes is associated with loss of semantic knowledge and alterations in socioemotional behavior. There are two clinical variants of SD: semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), which is characterized by predominant atrophy in the anterior temporal lobe and insula in the left hemisphere, and semantic behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (sbvFTD), which is characterized by predominant atrophy in those structures in the right hemisphere. Previous studies of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, an associated clinical syndrome that targets the frontal lobes and anterior insula, have found impairments in baseline autonomic nervous system activity that correlate with left-lateralized frontotemporal atrophy patterns and disruptions in socioemotional functioning. Here, we evaluated whether there are similar impairments in resting autonomic nervous system activity in SD that also reflect left-lateralized atrophy and relate to diminished affiliative behavior. A total of 82 participants including 33 people with SD (20 svPPA and 13 sbvFTD) and 49 healthy older controls completed a laboratory-based assessment of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA; a parasympathetic measure) and skin conductance level (SCL; a sympathetic measure) during a two-minute resting baseline period. Participants also underwent structural magnetic resonance imaging, and informants rated their current affiliative behavior on the Interpersonal Adjective Scale. Results indicated that baseline RSA and SCL were lower in SD than in healthy controls, with significant impairments present in both svPPA and sbvFTD. Voxel-based morphometry analyses revealed left-greater-than-right atrophy related to diminished parasympathetic and sympathetic outflow in SD. While left-lateralized atrophy in the mid-to-posterior insula correlated with lower RSA, left-lateralized atrophy in the ventral anterior insula correlated with lower SCL. In SD, lower baseline RSA, but not lower SCL, was associated with lower gregariousness/extraversion. Neither autonomic measure related to warmth/agreeableness, however. Through the assessment of baseline autonomic nervous system physiology, the present study contributes to expanding conceptualizations of the biological basis of socioemotional alterations in svPPA and sbvFTD.
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- Alice Y Hua
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Stanford Neuroscience Health Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Wu Y, Ridwan AR, Niaz MR, Qi X, Zhang S, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Bennett DA, Arfanakis K. Development of high quality T 1-weighted and diffusion tensor templates of the older adult brain in a common space. Neuroimage 2022; 260:119417. [PMID: 35793748 PMCID: PMC9437946 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2022] [Revised: 05/27/2022] [Accepted: 06/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
Abstract
High-quality T1-weighted (T1w) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) brain templates that are representative of the individuals under study enhance the accuracy of template-based neuroimaging investigations, and when they are also located in a common space they facilitate optimal integration of information on brain morphometry and diffusion characteristics. However, such multimodal templates have not been constructed for the brain of older adults. The purpose of this work was threefold: (A) to introduce an iterative method for construction of multimodal T1w and DTI templates that aims at maximizing the quality of each template separately as well as the spatial matching between templates, (B) to use this method to develop T1w and DTI templates of the older adult brain in a common space, and (C) to evaluate the performance of the method across iterations and compare it to the performance of state-of-the-art approaches based on multichannel registration. It was demonstrated that more iterations of the proposed method enhanced the characteristics and spatial matching of the resulting T1w and DTI templates. The templates of the older adult brain generated by the final iteration of the proposed method provided better delineation of brain structures, higher discriminability between tissues, and higher image sharpness near the cortex compared to templates generated with approaches employing multichannel registration. In addition, the spatial matching between the T1w and DTI templates constructed by the proposed method approximated the template alignment achieved with methods employing multichannel registration. Finally, when using the templates generated by the proposed method as references for spatial normalization of older adult T1w and DTI data, both the intra-modality inter-subject normalization precision and the inter-modality spatial matching were higher in most metrics than those achieved with templates constructed with other methods. Overall, the present work brought new insights into multimodal template construction, generated much-needed high quality T1w and DTI templates of the older adult brain in a common space, and conducted a thorough, quantitative evaluation of available multimodal template construction methods.
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- Yingjuan Wu
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL USA
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- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois USA
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- A portion of the data used in preparation of this article were obtained from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database (adni.loni.usc.edu). As such, the investigators within the ADNI contributed to the design and implementation of ADNI and/or provided data but did not participate in analysis or writing of this report. A complete listing of ADNI investigators can be found at: http://adni.loni.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/how_to_apply/ADNI_Acknowledgement_List.pdf USA
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- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL USA; Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois USA.
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Spatial normalization and quantification approaches of PET imaging for neurological disorders. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2022; 49:3809-3829. [PMID: 35624219 DOI: 10.1007/s00259-022-05809-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Quantification approaches of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging provide user-independent evaluation of pathophysiological processes in living brains, which have been strongly recommended in clinical diagnosis of neurological disorders. Most PET quantification approaches depend on spatial normalization of PET images to brain template; however, the spatial normalization and quantification approaches have not been comprehensively reviewed. In this review, we introduced and compared PET template-based and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-aided spatial normalization approaches. Tracer-specific and age-specific PET brain templates were surveyed between 1999 and 2021 for 18F-FDG, 11C-PIB, 18F-Florbetapir, 18F-THK5317, and etc., as well as adaptive PET template methods. Spatial normalization-based PET quantification approaches were reviewed, including region-of-interest (ROI)-based and voxel-wise quantitative methods. Spatial normalization-based ROI segmentation approaches were introduced, including manual delineation on template, atlas-based segmentation, and multi-atlas approach. Voxel-wise quantification approaches were reviewed, including voxel-wise statistics and principal component analysis. Certain concerns and representative examples of clinical applications were provided for both ROI-based and voxel-wise quantification approaches. At last, a recipe for PET spatial normalization and quantification approaches was concluded to improve diagnosis accuracy of neurological disorders in clinical practice.
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Multi sequence average templates for aging and neurodegenerative disease populations. Sci Data 2022; 9:238. [PMID: 35624290 PMCID: PMC9142602 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01341-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 05/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Magnetic resonance image (MRI) processing pipelines use average templates to enable standardization of individual MRIs in a common space. MNI-ICBM152 is currently used as the standard template by most MRI processing tools. However, MNI-ICBM152 represents an average of 152 healthy young adult brains and is vastly different from brains of patients with neurodegenerative diseases. In those populations, extensive atrophy might cause inevitable registration errors when using an average template of young healthy individuals for standardization. Disease-specific templates that represent the anatomical characteristics of the populations can reduce such errors and improve downstream driven estimates. We present multi-sequence average templates for Alzheimer’s Dementia (AD), Fronto-temporal Dementia (FTD), Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), cognitively intact and impaired Parkinson’s Disease patients (PD-CIE and PD-CI, respectively), individuals with Subjective Cognitive Impairment (SCI), AD with vascular contribution (V-AD), Vascular Mild Cognitive Impairment (V-MCI), Cognitively Intact Elderly (CIE) individuals, and a human phantom. We also provide separate templates for males and females to allow better representation of the diseases in each sex group. Measurement(s) | Human Brain | Technology Type(s) | Magnetic resonance imaging | Sample Characteristic - Organism | Homo Sapiens | Sample Characteristic - Location | Canada |
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Fleischman DA, Arfanakis K, Leurgans SE, Zhang S, Poole VN, Han SD, Yu L, Lamar M, Kim N, Bennett DA, Barnes LL. Associations of deformation-based brain morphometry with cognitive level and decline within older Blacks without dementia. Neurobiol Aging 2022; 111:35-43. [PMID: 34963062 PMCID: PMC9070546 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2021] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 11/14/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Blacks are at higher risk of developing cognitive impairment with age than non-Hispanic Whites, yet most brain morphometry and cognition research is performed with White samples or with mixed samples that control for race or compare across racial groups. A deeper understanding of the within-group variability in associations between brain structure and cognitive decline in Blacks is critically important for designing appropriate outcomes for clinical trials, predicting adverse outcomes, and developing interventions to preserve cognitive function, but no studies have examined these associations longitudinally within Blacks. We performed deformation-based morphometry in 376 older Black participants without dementia and examined associations of deformation-based morphometry with cognitive level and decline for global cognition and five cognitive domains. After correcting for widespread age-associated effects, there remained regions with less tissue and more cerebrospinal fluid associated with level and rate of decline in global cognition, memory, and perceptual speed. Further study is needed to examine the moderators of these associations, identify adverse outcomes predicted by brain morphometry, and deepen knowledge of underlying biological mechanisms.
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- Debra A. Fleischman
- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612,Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612,Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 10 W. 35th St., Chicago, IL 60616
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612,Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612,Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612,Departments of Family Medicine and Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 3551 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90007,Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, 3551 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90007,School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, 3551 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90007
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612,Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago IL 60612
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Ahmad S, Wu Y, Yap PT. Surface-Guided Image Fusion for Preserving Cortical Details in Human Brain Templates. MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER-ASSISTED INTERVENTION : MICCAI ... INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER-ASSISTED INTERVENTION 2021; 12907:390-399. [PMID: 35403173 PMCID: PMC8986340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Human brain templates are a basis for comparison of brain features across individuals. They should ideally capture an atomical details at both coarse and fine scales to facilitate comparison at varying granularity. Brain template construction typically involves spatial normalization and image fusion. While significant efforts have been dedicated to improving brain templates with sophisticated spatial normalization algorithms, image fusion is typically carried out using intensity-based averaging, causing blurring of anatomical structures. Here, we present an image fusion method that exploits cortical surfaces as guidance to help preserve details in brain templates. Our method encodes cortical boundary information given by a cortical surface mesh in a signed distance function (SDF) map. We use the SDF map to help determine localized contributions of the individual images, especially at cortical boundaries, in image fusion. Experimental results demonstrate that our method significantly improves the preservation of fine gyral and sulcal details, resulting in detailed brain templates with good surface-volume agreement.
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- Sahar Ahmad
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Ridwan AR, Niaz MR, Wu Y, Qi X, Zhang S, Kontzialis M, Javierre-Petit C, Tazwar M, Bennett DA, Yang Y, Arfanakis K. Development and evaluation of a high performance T1-weighted brain template for use in studies on older adults. Hum Brain Mapp 2021; 42:1758-1776. [PMID: 33449398 PMCID: PMC7978143 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2020] [Revised: 11/16/2020] [Accepted: 12/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Τhe accuracy of template-based neuroimaging investigations depends on the template's image quality and representativeness of the individuals under study. Yet a thorough, quantitative investigation of how available standardized and study-specific T1-weighted templates perform in studies on older adults has not been conducted. The purpose of this work was to construct a high-quality standardized T1-weighted template specifically designed for the older adult brain, and systematically compare the new template to several other standardized and study-specific templates in terms of image quality, performance in spatial normalization of older adult data and detection of small inter-group morphometric differences, and representativeness of the older adult brain. The new template was constructed with state-of-the-art spatial normalization of high-quality data from 222 older adults. It was shown that the new template (a) exhibited high image sharpness, (b) provided higher inter-subject spatial normalization accuracy and (c) allowed detection of smaller inter-group morphometric differences compared to other standardized templates, (d) had similar performance to that of study-specific templates constructed with the same methodology, and (e) was highly representative of the older adult brain.
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Affiliation(s)
- Abdur Raquib Ridwan
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA.,Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.,Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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