Applications of machine learning to diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases

MA Myszczynska, PN Ojamies, AMB Lacoste… - Nature reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Globally, there is a huge unmet need for effective treatments for neurodegenerative
diseases. The complexity of the molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal degeneration …

A review of MRI findings in schizophrenia

ME Shenton, CC Dickey, M Frumin… - Schizophrenia research, 2001 - Elsevier
After more than 100 years of research, the neuropathology of schizophrenia remains
unknown and this is despite the fact that both: Kraepelin, E., 1919/1971. Dementia praecox …

The effects of poverty on childhood brain development: the mediating effect of caregiving and stressful life events

J Luby, A Belden, K Botteron, N Marrus… - JAMA …, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The study provides novel data to inform the mechanisms by which poverty
negatively impacts childhood brain development. Objective To investigate whether the …

User-guided 3D active contour segmentation of anatomical structures: significantly improved efficiency and reliability

PA Yushkevich, J Piven, HC Hazlett, RG Smith, S Ho… - Neuroimage, 2006 - Elsevier
Active contour segmentation and its robust implementation using level set methods are well-
established theoretical approaches that have been studied thoroughly in the image analysis …

Multi-atlas segmentation of the whole hippocampus and subfields using multiple automatically generated templates

J Pipitone, MTM Park, J Winterburn, TA Lett, JP Lerch… - Neuroimage, 2014 - Elsevier
Introduction Advances in image segmentation of magnetic resonance images (MRI) have
demonstrated that multi-atlas approaches improve segmentation over regular atlas-based …

The optimal template effect in hippocampus studies of diseased populations

BB Avants, P Yushkevich, J Pluta, D Minkoff… - Neuroimage, 2010 - Elsevier
We evaluate the impact of template choice on template-based segmentation of the
hippocampus in epilepsy. Four dataset-specific strategies are quantitatively contrasted: the …

Brain volume in first-episode schizophrenia: systematic review and meta-analysis of magnetic resonance imaging studies

RG Steen, C Mull, R Mcclure, RM Hamer… - The British Journal of …, 2006 - cambridge.org
BackgroundStudies of people with schizophrenia assessed using magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) usually include patients with first-episode and chronic disease, yet brain …

Mapping hippocampal and ventricular change in Alzheimer disease

PM Thompson, KM Hayashi, GI De Zubicaray… - Neuroimage, 2004 - Elsevier
We developed an anatomical mapping technique to detect hippocampal and ventricular
changes in Alzheimer disease (AD). The resulting maps are sensitive to longitudinal …

MRI-derived measurements of human subcortical, ventricular and intracranial brain volumes: reliability effects of scan sessions, acquisition sequences, data analyses …

J Jovicich, S Czanner, X Han, D Salat… - Neuroimage, 2009 - Elsevier
Automated MRI-derived measurements of in-vivo human brain volumes provide novel
insights into normal and abnormal neuroanatomy, but little is known about measurement …

Computational anatomy: An emerging discipline

U Grenander, MI Miller - Quarterly of applied mathematics, 1998 - ams.org
This paper studies mathematical methods in the emerging new discipline of Computational
Anatomy. Herein we formalize the Brown/Washington University model of anatomy following …