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== Goal ==
 
== Goal ==
  
* Discuss DTI tools
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* Reviewing shape analysis with current NAMIC data
* Discuss DTI clinical projects
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* Establishing a concrete plan and schedule for collaborations. Target projects are shape analysis and statistical analysis of anisotropy measure along fibers.
  
== Activities ==
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== Agenda ==
  
* Demonstration of FiberViewer and FiberTracking software (Sampath Vetsa)
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* 10am: UNC presentations for Psychiatrists/Psychologists:
** Training on step-by-step process for using software
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** Shape Analysis of Caudate and Corpus Callosum Data (30 min)[[Image:2005_NAMIC_ShapeSchizoBWH.ppt|Image:2005 NAMIC ShapeSchizoBWH.ppt]]
*** Computing tensor image from diffusion weighted images
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** ITK SNAP: A level Set Semi Automatic Segmentation tool and its use at UNC for the segmentation of brain structures [[Image:2005_NAMIC_ShapeSchizoBWH.ppt|Image:2005 NAMIC ShapeSchizoBWH.ppt]]
*** Identifying and drawing regions-of-interest using InsightSNAP
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** UNC Tools for the Statistical Analysis of Anisotropy of Diffusion Tensor Measures along White Matter Fibers. (30min) [[Image:Isabelle100705-1.ppt|Image:Isabelle100705-1.ppt]]
*** Performing tractography
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*** Analysis of FA,MD,eigenvalue properties along tracts of interest (splenium and genu used as examples)
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* 11:15am: Open Discussion with PNL on immediate and future collaborations plans.
** Feedback from UCI group on software ease-of-use
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** Establish what UNC needs from PNL and PNL from UNC.
** UCI group installed and tested software live on their machines - Jim Fallon tested software looking for challenging tracts in neonate data
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** Resolve technical issues such authorship, clinical data, etc...
* Discussion of high-performance visualization of fiber tracts using modern graphics hardware (Vid Petrovic)
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* Clinical projects using DTI
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* 12pm: Lunch
** Explanation by Jim Fallon of previous studies in connection differences between schizophrenics and controls
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* 1pm: Wrap up of PNL/UNC collaboration plans
** Discussion of Krabbe study between Martin Styner and Jim Fallon
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* 2pm: UNC presentations for Computer Scientists.
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** Shape Analysis: UNC Shape Analysis Pipeline in ITK/NAMIC [[Image:2005_10_ShapePipeline.ppt|Image:2005 10 ShapePipeline.ppt]]
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** Shape Analysis: Statistical Non-Parametric Permutation tests for shape hypothesis testing, [[Image:2005_10_NonParamShapeStats.ppt|Image:2005 10 NonParamShapeStats.ppt]]
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** DTI Tensor Analysis [[Image:Isabelle100705-2.ppt|Image:Isabelle100705-2.ppt]]
  
 
== Participants ==
 
== Participants ==
  
* Jim Fallon (UC Irvine)
 
* Martina Panzenboeck (UC Irvine)
 
* Vid Petrovic (UC Irvine)
 
* Guido Gerig (UNC)
 
 
* Martin Styner (UNC)
 
* Martin Styner (UNC)
 
* Isabelle Corouge (UNC)
 
* Isabelle Corouge (UNC)
* Sampath Vetsa (UNC)
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* Martha Shenton (PNL)
* Casey Goodlett (UNC)
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* James Levitt (PNL)
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* Marek Kubicki (PNL)
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* C-F Westin (BWH)
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* Marc Niethammer (PNL)
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* Sylvain Bouix (PNL)
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== Discussion overview ==
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'''Statistical shape analysis:'''
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Caudate (SPD):
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* Spherical harmonics for shape description
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* local/global/parcellated significance and anlysis
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* Local and global differences on R, but only local on L
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* main shape difference in caudate head, small effect in caudate tail
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* volume reduction in SPD
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Corpus callosum:
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* model based 2D segmentation of corpus callosum
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* DTI fiber tracking based corpus callosum subdivision method (coloring based on connection to white matter parcellation -- given as a template) results in probabilistic subdivision of the corpus callosum
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<br /> DTI:
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* quantitative analysis of DTI data (along fibers; statistics within fiber bundles)
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<br />'''PNL provides:'''
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* an interpretation of the shape differences seen in SPD vs control group caudates
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* a larger dataset to improve the statistical significance (chronic SZ?)
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<br />'''UNC provides:'''
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* statistical shape analysis software
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* fiber viewer and fiber tracking software (in Namic sandbox see also [http://www.ia.unc.edu/dev software here])
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* tools for quantitiative analysis of DTI data (statistics of diffusion metrics and tensors along fibers and across fibers within a fiber bundle)
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'''Issues:'''
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* very small sample sizes (-> PNL will provide more and different data)
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* local shape difference significance measures are very conservative or not conservative enough (is there a middle groud?)
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* not clear how to compare fiber tracts between subjects (how to align?)
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'''Possible future work:'''
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* Do statistical caudate analysis for chronic SZ (expect larger changes than for SPD)?
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* Hippocampus study using the UNC software?

Revision as of 13:16, 18 December 2006

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Goal

  • Reviewing shape analysis with current NAMIC data
  • Establishing a concrete plan and schedule for collaborations. Target projects are shape analysis and statistical analysis of anisotropy measure along fibers.

Agenda

  • 11:15am: Open Discussion with PNL on immediate and future collaborations plans.
    • Establish what UNC needs from PNL and PNL from UNC.
    • Resolve technical issues such authorship, clinical data, etc...

Participants

  • Martin Styner (UNC)
  • Isabelle Corouge (UNC)
  • Martha Shenton (PNL)
  • James Levitt (PNL)
  • Marek Kubicki (PNL)
  • C-F Westin (BWH)
  • Marc Niethammer (PNL)
  • Sylvain Bouix (PNL)

Discussion overview

Statistical shape analysis:

Caudate (SPD):

  • Spherical harmonics for shape description
  • local/global/parcellated significance and anlysis
  • Local and global differences on R, but only local on L
  • main shape difference in caudate head, small effect in caudate tail
  • volume reduction in SPD

Corpus callosum:

  • model based 2D segmentation of corpus callosum
  • DTI fiber tracking based corpus callosum subdivision method (coloring based on connection to white matter parcellation -- given as a template) results in probabilistic subdivision of the corpus callosum


DTI:

  • quantitative analysis of DTI data (along fibers; statistics within fiber bundles)


PNL provides:

  • an interpretation of the shape differences seen in SPD vs control group caudates
  • a larger dataset to improve the statistical significance (chronic SZ?)


UNC provides:

  • statistical shape analysis software
  • fiber viewer and fiber tracking software (in Namic sandbox see also software here)
  • tools for quantitiative analysis of DTI data (statistics of diffusion metrics and tensors along fibers and across fibers within a fiber bundle)

Issues:

  • very small sample sizes (-> PNL will provide more and different data)
  • local shape difference significance measures are very conservative or not conservative enough (is there a middle groud?)
  • not clear how to compare fiber tracts between subjects (how to align?)

Possible future work:

  • Do statistical caudate analysis for chronic SZ (expect larger changes than for SPD)?
  • Hippocampus study using the UNC software?