Impact of scale space search on age- and gender-related changes in MRI-based cortical morphometry

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2113-2128

  Zhao, Lu ^a   Boucher, Maxime ^a,b   Rosa Neto, Pedro ^a   Evans, Alan C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortical surface area; Cortical thickness; Cortical volume; Filter size; Gaussian kernel smoothing; Permutation test; Surface based morphometry; Unified P value

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; BRAIN SIZE; CEPHALOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FEMALE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCALE SPACE SEARCH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE FILTER ANALYSIS; SPACE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CORTICAL SURFACE AREA; CORTICAL THICKNESS; CORTICAL VOLUME; FILTER SIZE; GAUSSIAN KERNEL SMOOTHING; PERMUTATION TEST; SURFACE-BASED MORPHOMETRY; UNIFIED P-VALUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882610999     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22050     Document Type: Article

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