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Our goal is to begin a study measuring cortical thickness evolution at two cross-sectional time periods (2 years with follow-up at 4 years) considering autistic children and controls. We want to be able to make statistical group comparison by developping image processing tools that are applicable for pediatric datasets.
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Our goal is to begin a longitudinal study of early brain development considering autistic children and controls (2 years with follow-up at 4 years). We want to be able to make statistical group comparisons with average cortickal thickness map for each population.  
  
  

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Key Investigators

  • UNC: Heather Cody Hazlett, Martin Styner, Clement Vachet
  • MGH: ?

Objective

Our goal is to begin a longitudinal study of early brain development considering autistic children and controls (2 years with follow-up at 4 years). We want to be able to make statistical group comparisons with average cortickal thickness map for each population.


Approach, Plan

Our approach is to create an average cortical thickness map for each population and make statistical group comparison.

Our plan for the project week is to first learn how to use FreeSurfer, and then to run it on several cases. An appropriatness of the current pediatric atlas needs to be studied. We would also like to use our developped itkEMS tool, to A study comparison between our CortThick tool and Freesurfer needs to be done to study the process reliability.

Progress

This section will get filled out at the end of the Project week.



References

Additional Information