Fletcher, Thomas H.

Muralidharan, Prasanna

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www.sci.utah.edu SCI INSTITUTE ● EXHIBIT ● EXPLORE ● EXCITE             EXPERIENCE ● EXCHANGE ●  SCIOn Relating Brain Shape With Neurological DisordersPrasanna Muralidharan, Nikhil Singh, Tom Fletcher and Sarang JoshiMotivation● Brain imaging as a biomarker for neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's Disease (AD).● Inferences from neuroanatomical shape changes for the purpose of early diagnosis and also to track  disease progression.● To study shape variation in brain structures within the population and over time (longitudinal studies)Alzheimer’s Disease● Dementia characterized by severe behavioural, cognitive and functional impairment accompanied by  neuroanatomical shape changes.● Accelerated deterioration of mental functions and memory loss, to that compared in normal aging.● Shape changes that occur during disease progression can be extracted from Magnetic Resonance (MR)  brain images.Imaging and clinical data● ADNI: about 800 subjects, structural MRI data for 6 timepoints at 6 months interval.● Corresponding clinical test scores.● Segmented brain structures such as corpus callosum, ventricles, etc● We extract and identify shape deformation patterns in brain anatomy that relate to observed clinical scores depicting cognitive abilities.● The methodology also enables us to quantify the amount of deformation in units of clinical response.Chaging shape along a parameter. Regression in shape space. MRI - sagittal slice. Shape variation in Corpus Callosum.Average 3D brain shape constructed from the population of 3D MRI images.Changing MMSE (Mini-mental state examination) for the average brain (26.53): Red corresponds to local expansion and blue to local contractionSupported by Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) (NIH grant U01AG024904), NIH grant 5R01EB007688,NIH grant P41 RR023953, NSF grant CNS-0751152 and the NSF CAREER grant 1054057x Myif(xi)18 19 20 21 22 23 2425 26 26.53 27 28 29 30f(x)

On relating brain shape with neurological disorders

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On relating brain shape with neurological disorders

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