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    Dilated Dense U-Net for Infant Hippocampus Subfield Segmentation

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    Accurate and automatic segmentation of infant hippocampal subfields from magnetic resonance (MR) images is an important step for studying memory related infant neurological diseases. However, existing hippocampal subfield segmentation methods were generally designed based on adult subjects, and would compromise performance when applied to infant subjects due to insufficient tissue contrast and fast changing structural patterns of early hippocampal development. In this paper, we propose a new fully convolutional network (FCN) for infant hippocampal subfield segmentation by embedding the dilated dense network in the U-net, namely DUnet. The embedded dilated dense network can generate multi-scale features while keeping high spatial resolution, which is useful in fusing the low-level features in the contracting path with the high-level features in the expanding path. To further improve the performance, we group every pair of convolutional layers with one residual connection in the DUnet, and obtain the Residual DUnet (ResDUnet). Experimental results show that our proposed DUnet and ResDUnet improve the average Dice coefficient by 2.1 and 2.5% for infant hippocampal subfield segmentation, respectively, when compared with the classic 3D U-net. The results also demonstrate that our methods outperform other state-of-the-art methods

    Automated segmentation of medial temporal lobe subregions on in vivo T1-weighted MRI in early stages of Alzheimer's disease

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    This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Xie, L, Wisse, LEM, Pluta, J, et al. Automated segmentation of medial temporal lobe subregions on in vivo T1-weighted MRI in early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Hum Brain Mapp. 2019; 40: 3431 3451, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24607. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.[EN] Medial temporal lobe (MTL) substructures are the earliest regions affected by neurofibrillary tangle pathology-and thus are promising biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, automatic segmentation of the MTL using only T1-weighted (T1w) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is challenging due to the large anatomical variability of the MTL cortex and the confound of the dura mater, which is commonly segmented as gray matter by state-of-the-art algorithms because they have similar intensity in T1w MRI. To address these challenges, we developed a novel atlas set, consisting of 15 cognitively normal older adults and 14 patients with mild cognitive impairment with a label explicitly assigned to the dura, that can be used by the multiatlas automated pipeline (Automatic Segmentation of Hippocampal Subfields [ASHS-T1]) for the segmentation of MTL subregions, including anterior/posterior hippocampus, entorhinal cortex (ERC), Brodmann areas (BA) 35 and 36, and parahippocampal cortex on T1w MRI. Cross-validation experiments indicated good segmentation accuracy of ASHS-T1 and that the dura can be reliably separated from the cortex (6.5% mislabeled as gray matter). Conversely, FreeSurfer segmented majority of the dura mater (62.4%) as gray matter and the degree of dura mislabeling decreased with increasing disease severity. To evaluate its clinical utility, we applied the pipeline to T1w images of 663 ADNI subjects and significant volume/thickness loss is observed in BA35, ERC, and posterior hippocampus in early prodromal AD and all subregions at later stages. As such, the publicly available new atlas and ASHS-T1 could have important utility in the early diagnosis and monitoring of AD and enhancing brain-behavior studies of these regions.Northern California Institute for Research and Education; Foundation for the National Institutes of Health; Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Transition Therapeutics; Takeda Pharmaceutical Company; Servier; Piramal Imaging; Pfizer Inc.; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Neurotrack Technologies; NeuroRx Research; Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC.; Lundbeck and Merck & Co., Inc.; Lumosity; Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development LLC.; Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy Research & Development, LLC.; IXICO Ltd.; GE Healthcare; Fujirebio; Genentech, Inc.; F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.; EuroImmun; Eli Lilly and Company; Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Cogstate and Eisai Inc.; CereSpir, Inc.; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; Biogen; BioClinica, Inc.; Araclon Biotech; Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation; Alzheimer's Association; AbbVie; National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering; National Institute on Aging; Department of Defense ADNI, Grant/Award Number: W81XWH-12-2-0012; Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Grant/Award Number: U01 AG024904; Spain Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, Grant/Award Number: DPI2017-87743-R; Foundation Philippe Chatrier; BrightFocus Foundation; National Institutes of Health, Grant/Award Numbers: R01-AG055005, R01-EB017255, P30-AG010124, R01-AG040271, R01-AG056014Xie, L.; Wisse, LEM.; Pluta, J.; De Flores, R.; Piskin, V.; Manjón Herrera, JV.; Wang, H.... (2019). 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    7T-guided super-resolution of 3T MRI

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    High-resolution MR images can depict rich details of brain anatomical structures and show subtle changes in longitudinal data. 7T MRI scanners can acquire MR images with higher resolution and better tissue contrast than the routine 3T MRI scanners. However, 7T MRI scanners are currently more expensive and less available in clinical and research centers. To this end, we propose a method to generate super-resolution 3T MRI that resembles 7T MRI, which is called as 7T-like MR image in this paper

    Anatomical and microstructural determinants of hippocampal subfield functional connectome embedding

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    The hippocampus plays key roles in cognition and affect and serves as a model system for structure/function studies in animals. So far, its complex anatomy has challenged investigations targeting its substructural organization in humans. State-of-the-art MRI offers the resolution and versatility to identify hippocampal subfields, assess its microstructure, and study topographical principles of its connectivity in vivo. We developed an approach to unfold the human hippocampus and examine spatial variations of intrinsic functional connectivity in a large cohort of healthy adults. In addition to mapping common and unique connections across subfields, we identified two main axes of subregional connectivity transitions. An anterior/posterior gradient followed long-axis landmarks and metaanalytical findings from task-based functional MRI, while a medial/lateral gradient followed hippocampal infolding and correlated with proxies of cortical myelin. Findings were consistent in an independent sample and highly stable across resting-state scans. Our results provide robust evidence for long-axis specialization in the resting human hippocampus and suggest an intriguing interplay between connectivity and microstructure

    Release of cognitive and multimodal MRI data including real-world tasks and hippocampal subfield segmentations

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    We share data from N = 217 healthy adults (mean age 29 years, range 20-41; 109 females, 108 males) who underwent extensive cognitive assessment and neuroimaging to examine the neural basis of individual differences, with a particular focus on a brain structure called the hippocampus. Cognitive data were collected using a wide array of questionnaires, naturalistic tests that examined imagination, autobiographical memory recall and spatial navigation, traditional laboratory-based tests such as recalling word pairs, and comprehensive characterisation of the strategies used to perform the cognitive tests. 3 Tesla MRI data were also acquired and include multi-parameter mapping to examine tissue microstructure, diffusion-weighted MRI, T2-weighted high-resolution partial volume structural MRI scans (with the masks of hippocampal subfields manually segmented from these scans), whole brain resting state functional MRI scans and partial volume high resolution resting state functional MRI scans. This rich dataset will be of value to cognitive and clinical neuroscientists researching individual differences, real-world cognition, brain-behaviour associations, hippocampal subfields and more. All data are freely available on Dryad

    Quantitative MRI correlates of hippocampal and neocortical pathology in intractable temporal lobe epilepsy

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    Intractable or drug-resistant epilepsy occurs in over 30% of epilepsy patients, with many of these patients undergoing surgical excision of the affected brain region to achieve seizure control. Advances in MRI have the potential to improve surgical treatment of epilepsy through improved identification and delineation of lesions. However, validation is currently needed to investigate histopathological correlates of these new imaging techniques. The purpose of this work is to investigate histopathological correlates of quantitative relaxometry and DTI from hippocampal and neocortical specimens of intractable TLE patients. To achieve this goal I developed and evaluated a pipeline for histology to in-vivo MRI image registration, which finds dense spatial correspondence between both modalities. This protocol was divided in two steps whereby sparsely sectioned histology from temporal lobe specimens was first registered to the intermediate ex-vivo MRI which is then registered to the in-vivo MRI, completing a pipeline for histology to in-vivo MRI registration. When correlating relaxometry and DTI with neuronal density and morphology in the temporal lobe neocortex, I found T1 to be a predictor of neuronal density in the neocortical GM and demonstrated that employing multi-parametric MRI (combining T1 and FA together) provided a significantly better fit than each parameter alone in predicting density of neurons. This work was the first to relate in-vivo T1 and FA values to the proportion of neurons in GM. When investigating these quantitative multimodal parameters with histological features within the hippocampal subfields, I demonstrated that MD correlates with neuronal density and size, and can act as a marker for neuron integrity within the hippocampus. More importantly, this work was the first to highlight the potential of subfield relaxometry and diffusion parameters (mainly T2 and MD) as well as volumetry in predicting the extent of cell loss per subfield pre-operatively, with a precision so far unachievable. These results suggest that high-resolution quantitative MRI sequences could impact clinical practice for pre-operative evaluation and prediction of surgical outcomes of intractable epilepsy

    Bridging generative models and Convolutional Neural Networks for domain-agnostic segmentation of brain MRI

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    Segmentation of brain MRI scans is paramount in neuroimaging, as it is a prerequisite for many subsequent analyses. Although manual segmentation is considered the gold standard, it suffers from severe reproducibility issues, and is extremely tedious, which limits its application to large datasets. Therefore, there is a clear need for automated tools that enable fast and accurate segmentation of brain MRI scans. Recent methods rely on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). While CNNs obtain accurate results on their training domain, they are highly sensitive to changes in resolution and MRI contrast. Although data augmentation and domain adaptation techniques can increase the generalisability of CNNs, these methods still need to be retrained for every new domain, which requires costly labelling of images. Here, we present a learning strategy to make CNNs agnostic to MRI contrast, resolution, and numerous artefacts. Specifically, we train a network with synthetic data sampled from a generative model conditioned on segmentations. Crucially, we adopt a domain randomisation approach where all generation parameters are drawn for each example from uniform priors. As a result, the network is forced to learn domain-agnostic features, and can segment real test scans without retraining. The proposed method almost achieves the accuracy of supervised CNNs on their training domain, and substantially outperforms state-of-the-art domain adaptation methods. Finally, based on this learning strategy, we present a segmentation suite for robust analysis of heterogeneous clinical scans. Overall, our approach unlocks the development of morphometry on millions of clinical scans, which ultimately has the potential to improve the diagnosis and characterisation of neurological disorders

    Globally Optimal Coupled Surfaces for Semi-automatic Segmentation of Medical Images

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    Manual delineations are of paramount importance in medical imaging, for instance to train supervised methods and evaluate automatic segmentation algorithms. In volumetric images, manually tracing regions of interest is an excruciating process in which much time is wasted labeling neighboring 2D slices that are similar to each other. Here we present a method to compute a set of discrete minimal surfaces whose boundaries are specified by user-provided segmentations on one or more planes. Using this method, the user can for example manually delineate one slice every n and let the algorithm complete the segmentation for the slices in between. Using a discrete framework, this method globally minimizes a cost function that combines a regularizer with a data term based on image intensities, while ensuring that the surfaces do not intersect each other or leave holes in between. While the resulting optimization problem is an integer program and thus NP-hard, we show that the equality constraint matrix is totally unimodular, which enables us to solve the linear program (LP) relaxation instead. We can then capitalize on the existence of efficient LP solvers to compute a globally optimal solution in practical times. Experiments on two different datasets illustrate the superiority of the proposed method over the use of independent, label-wise optimal surfaces (∼ 5% mean increase in Dice when one every six slices is labeled, with some structures improving up to ∼ 10% in Dice)
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