A comparative study of segmentation techniques for the quantification of brain subcortical volume

Autor: Brian Hallahan, Emma McDermott, Helen Casey, Colm McDonald, Leila Nabulsi, Peter Dockery, Theophilus N. Akudjedu, Joanne Kenney, Srinath Ambati, Cathy Scanlon, Dara M. Cannon, Sarah Hehir, Migle Makelyte, Stefani O'Donoghue, Liam Kilmartin
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Brain Imaging and Behavior. 12:1678-1695
ISSN: 1931-7565
1931-7557
Popis: Manual tracing of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) represents the gold standard for segmentation in clinical neuropsychiatric research studies, however automated approaches are increasingly used due to its time limitations. The accuracy of segmentation techniques for subcortical structures has not been systematically investigated in large samples. We compared the accuracy of fully automated [(i) model-based: FSL-FIRST; (ii) patch-based: volBrain], semi-automated (FreeSurfer) and stereological (Measure®) segmentation techniques with manual tracing (ITK-SNAP) for delineating volumes of the caudate (easy-to-segment) and the hippocampus (difficult-to-segment). High resolution 1.5 T T1-weighted MR images were obtained from 177 patients with major psychiatric disorders and 104 healthy participants. The relative consistency (partial correlation), absolute agreement (intraclass correlation coefficient, ICC) and potential technique bias (Bland-Altman plots) of each technique was compared with manual segmentation. Each technique yielded high correlations (0.77-0.87, p
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