Building a Surface Atlas of Hippocampal Subfields from MRI Scans using FreeSurfer, FIRST and SPHARM

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2014-08
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The hippocampus is widely studied with neuroimaging techniques given its importance in learning and memory and its potential as a biomarker for brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy. However, its complex folding anatomy often presents analytical challenges. In particular, the critical hippocampal subfield information is usually ignored by hippocampal registration in detailed morphometric studies. Such an approach is thus inadequate to accurately characterize hippocampal morphometry and effectively identify hippocampal structural changes related to different conditions. To bridge this gap, we present our initial effort towards building a computational framework for subfield-guided hippocampal morphometry. This initial effort is focused on surface-based morphometry and aims to build a surface atlas of hippocampal subfields. Using the FreeSurfer software package, we obtain valuable hippocampal subfield information. Using the FIRST software package, we extract reliable hippocampal surface information. Using SPHARM, we develop an approach to create an atlas by mapping interpolated subfield information onto an average surface. The empirical result using ADNI data demonstrates the promise and good reproducibility of the proposed method.

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Cong, S., Rizkalla, M., Du, E. Y., West, J., Risacher, S., Saykin, A., … for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. (2014). Building a Surface Atlas of Hippocampal Subfields from MRI Scans using FreeSurfer, FIRST and SPHARM. The ... Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems Conference Proceedings : MWSCAS. Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2014, 813–816. http://doi.org/10.1109/MWSCAS.2014.6908539
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