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Automated Amygdala Surface Modeling Pipeline
Moo K. Chung
Department of Biostatistics and Medical InformaticsWaisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior
University of Wisconsin-Madison
www.stat.wisc.edu/~mchung/research/amygdala*
*Matlab-based image processing/analysis/visualization tools
Acknowledgments
Brendon, M. Nacewicz, Anqi Qiu, Shubing Wang, Kim M. Dalton, Jamie Hanson, Seth Pollak, Richard J. Davidson
Waisman laboratory for brain imaging and behavior
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Amygdala manual segmentation
Left amygdala of subject 001
FreeSurfer can be used to automatically segment amygdala and hippocampus. Publications coming out in NeuroImage using FreeSurfer segmentation.
Traditional Volumetry There is no volume difference in autism vs. control (study 1 (n=24) + study 3 (n=23) combined):
Left (p=0.64)Right (p=0.81)
Can we still have localized difference?
Step1
3D model of left amygdala of subject 001
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Orientation
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3D model of left amygdala of subject 001
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Spherical coordinate system for amygdala surface
Analysis & surface registration will be done on a sphere and the result will be back projected onto the average amygdala surface.
Step 2
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Hotelling’s T-square test on group difference
Origami representation
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Keith Worsley’s SurfStat MATLAB package
slm = SurfStatLinMod(disp, Brain + Age + Group,avsurf);slm = SurfStatT(slm, group);
Testing Group difference controlling for Brain size and Age
>pvalue = [0.001 0.005 0.01 0.05 0.1]>threshold=randomfield_threshold(slm, pvalue)
pvalue = 0.0010 0.0050 0.0100 0.0500 0.1000
threshold = 6.8058 6.2154 5.9564 5.3398 5.0635
Corrected P-value thresholding using the random field theory
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T-stat.
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Max T = 3.7970Random field thresholding at 0.05 level = 5.3398
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Max T = 3.6687Random field thresholding at 0.05 level = 5.3200
Significance of group difference controlling for Brain size and Age