Accurate automatic estimation of total intracranial volume: A nuisance variable with less nuisance

NeuroImage

Volumn 104, Issue , 2015, Pages 366-372

  Malone, Ian B ^a   Leung, Kelvin K ^a   Clegg, Shona ^a   Barnes, Josephine ^a   Whitwell, Jennifer L ^b   Ashburner, John ^c   Fox, Nick C ^a   Ridgway, Gerard R ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Evaluation; Freesurfer; ICV; Intracranial volume; SPM; Statistical Parametric Mapping; TIV

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 84924030282     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.09.034     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Arndt S., Cohen G., Alliger R.J., Swayze V.W., Andreasen N.C. Problems with ratio and proportion measures of imaged cerebral structures. Psychiatry Res. Neuroimaging 1991, 40:79-89. 10.1016/0925-4927(91)90031-K.
2. Ashburner J., Friston K.J. Unified segmentation. NeuroImage 2005, 26:839-851. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.02.018.
3. Barnes J., Ridgway G.R., Bartlett J., Henley S.M.D., Lehmann M., Hobbs N., Clarkson M.J., MacManus D.G., Ourselin S., Fox N.C. Head size, age and gender adjustment in MRI studies: a necessary nuisance?. NeuroImage 2010, 53:1244-1255. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.06.025.
4. Bartlett J.W., Frost C. Reliability, repeatability and reproducibility: analysis of measurement errors in continuous variables. Ultrasound Obstet. Gynecol. 2008, 31:466-475. 10.1002/uog.5256.
5. Bland J.M., Altman D.G. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet 1986, 327:307-310. 10.1016/S0140-6736(86)90837-8.
6. Boyes R.G., Rueckert D., Aljabar P., Whitwell J., Schott J.M., Hill D.L.G., Fox N.C. Cerebral atrophy measurements using Jacobian integration: comparison with the boundary shift integral. NeuroImage 2006, 32:159-169. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.02.052.
7. Buckner R.L., Head D., Parker J., Fotenos A.F., Marcus D., Morris J.C., Snyder A.Z. A unified approach for morphometric and functional data analysis in young, old, and demented adults using automated atlas-based head size normalization: reliability and validation against manual measurement of total intracranial volume. NeuroImage 2004, 23:724-738. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.06.018.
8. Callaert D.V., Ribbens A., Maes F., Swinnen S.P., Wenderoth N. Assessing age-related gray matter decline with voxel-based morphometry depends significantly on segmentation and normalization procedures. Front. Aging Neurosci. 2014, 6:124. 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00124.
9. Dale A.M., Fischl B., Sereno M.I. Cortical surface-based analysis: I. Segmentation and surface reconstruction. NeuroImage 1999, 9:179-194. 10.1006/nimg.1998.0395.
10. Davatzikos C., Genc A., Xu D., Resnick S.M. Voxel-based morphometry using the RAVENS maps: methods and validation using simulated longitudinal atrophy. NeuroImage 2001, 14:1361-1369. 10.1006/nimg.2001.0937.
11. Dennis E.L., Jahanshad N., McMahon K.L., de Zubicaray G.I., Martin N.G., Hickie I.B., Toga A.W., Wright M.J., Thompson P.M. Development of brain structural connectivity between ages 12 and 30: a 4-Tesla diffusion imaging study in 439 adolescents and adults. NeuroImage 2013, 64:671-684. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.09.004.
12. Dunn G., Roberts C. Modelling method comparison data. Stat. Methods Med. Res. 1999, 8:161-179.
13. Evans A.C., Collins D.L., Mills S.R., Brown E.D., Kelly R.L., Peters T.M. 3D statistical neuroanatomical models from 305 MRI volumes 1993, 3:1813-1817. 10.1109/NSSMIC.1993.373602.
14. Evans A.C., Janke A.L., Collins D.L., Baillet S. Brain templates and atlases. NeuroImage 2012, 62:911-922. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.024.
15. Folstein M.F., Folstein S.E., McHugh P.R. "Mini-mental state": a practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. J. Psychiatr. Res. 1975, 12:189-198. 10.1016/0022-3956(75)90026-6.
16. Fox N.C., Black R.S., Gilman S., Rossor M.N., Griffith S.G., Jenkins L., Koller M. Effects of Aβ immunization (AN1792) on MRI measures of cerebral volume in Alzheimer disease. Neurology 2005, 64:1563-1572. 10.1212/01.WNL.0000159743.08996.99.
17. Freeborough P.A., Fox N.C., Kitney R.I. Interactive algorithms for the segmentation and quantitation of 3-D MRI brain scans. Comput Methods Programs Biomed 1997, 53:15-25. 10.1016/S0169-2607(97)01803-8.
18. Gilman S., Koller M., Black R.S., Jenkins L., Griffith S.G., Fox N.C., Eisner L., Kirby L., Rovira M.B., Forette F., Orgogozo J.-M. Clinical effects of Aβ immunization (AN1792) in patients with AD in an interrupted trial. Neurology 2005, 64:1553-1562. 10.1212/01.WNL.0000159740.16984.3C.
19. Heckemann R.A., Hartkens T., Leung K.K., Hill D.L.G., Hajnal J.V., Rueckert D. Information Extraction from Medical Images (IXI): Developing an e-Science Application Based on the Globus Toolkit. Proceedings of the 2nd UK E-Science All Hands Meeting 2003.
20. Keihaninejad S., Heckemann R.A., Fagiolo G., Symms M.R., Hajnal J.V., Hammers A. A robust method to estimate the intracranial volume across MRI field strengths (1.5T and 3T). NeuroImage 2010, 50:1427-1437. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.01.064.
21. Malone I.B., Cash D., Ridgway G.R., MacManus D.G., Ourselin S., Fox N.C., Schott J.M. MIRIAD - public release of a multiple time point Alzheimer's MR imaging dataset. NeuroImage 2013, 70:33-36. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.12.044.
22. Mathalon D.H., Sullivan E.V., Rawles J.M., Pfefferbaum A. Correction for head size in brain-imaging measurements. Psychiatry Res. Neuroimaging 1993, 50:121-139. 10.1016/0925-4927(93)90016-B.
23. McKhann G., Drachman D., Folstein M., Katzman R., Price D., Stadlan E.M. Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease Report of the NINCDS-ADRDA Work Group* under the auspices of Department of Health and Human Services Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease. Neurology 1984, 34:939-939. 10.1212/WNL.34.7.939.
24. Nordenskjöld R., Malmberg F., Larsson E.-M., Simmons A., Brooks S.J., Lind L., Ahlström H., Johansson L., Kullberg J. Intracranial volume estimated with commonly used methods could introduce bias in studies including brain volume measurements. NeuroImage 2013, 83:355-360. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.06.068.
25. O'Brien L.M., Ziegler D.A., Deutsch C.K., Frazier J.A., Herbert M.R., Locascio J.J. Statistical adjustments for brain size in volumetric neuroimaging studies: some practical implications in methods. Psychiatry Res. 2011, 193:113-122. 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2011.01.007.
26. O'Brien L.M., Ziegler D.A., Deutsch C.K., Kennedy D.N., Goldstein J.M., Seidman L.J., Hodge S., Makris N., Caviness V., Frazier J.A., Herbert M.R. Adjustment for whole brain and cranial size in volumetric brain studies: a review of common adjustment factors and statistical methods. Harv. Rev. Psychiatry 2006, 14:141-151. 10.1080/10673220600784119.
27. Peelle J.E., Cusack R., Henson R.N.A. Adjusting for global effects in voxel-based morphometry: gray matter decline in normal aging. NeuroImage 2012, 60:1503-1516. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.12.086.
28. Pengas G., Pereira J.M.S., Williams G.B., Nestor P.J. Comparative reliability of total intracranial volume estimation methods and the influence of atrophy in a longitudinal semantic dementia cohort. J. Neuroimaging 2009, 19:37-46. 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2008.00246.x.
29. Perlaki G., Orsi G., Plozer E., Altbacker A., Darnai G., Nagy S.A., Horvath R., Toth A., Kovacs N., Bogner P., Schwarcz A., Janszky J. Are there any gender differences in the hippocampus volume after head-size correction? A volumetric and voxel-based morphometric study. Neurosci. Lett. 2014, (in press). 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.04.013.
30. Perneczky R., Wagenpfeil S., Lunetta K.L., Cupples L.A., Green R.C., DeCarli C., Farrer L.A., Kurz A. Head circumference, atrophy, and cognition: implications for brain reserve in Alzheimer disease. Neurology 2010, 75:137-142. 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181e7ca97.
31. Ridgway G., Barnes J., Pepple T., Fox N. Estimation of total intracranial volume; a comparison of methods. Alzheimers Dement 2011, 7:S62-S63. 10.1016/j.jalz.2011.05.099.
32. Sanfilipo M.P., Benedict R.H.B., Zivadinov R., Bakshi R. Correction for intracranial volume in analysis of whole brain atrophy in multiple sclerosis: the proportion vs. residual method. NeuroImage 2004, 22:1732-1743. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.03.037.
33. Ueda K., Fujiwara H., Miyata J., Hirao K., Saze T., Kawada R., Fujimoto S., Tanaka Y., Sawamoto N., Fukuyama H., Murai T. Investigating association of brain volumes with intracranial capacity in schizophrenia. NeuroImage 2010, 49:2503-2508. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.09.006.
34. Vuong P., Drucker D., Schwarz C., Fletcher E., DeCarli C., Carmichael O. Effects of T2-Weighted MRI Based Cranial Volume Measurements on Studies of the Aging Brain. Proc Soc Photo Opt Instrum Eng. 2013, 8669. 10.1117/12.2006727.
35. Weiskopf N., Lutti A., Helms G., Novak M., Ashburner J., Hutton C. Unified segmentation based correction of R1 brain maps for RF transmit field inhomogeneities (UNICORT). NeuroImage 2011, 54:2116-2124. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.023.
36. Weiskopf N., Suckling J., Williams G., Correia M.M., Inkster B., Tait R., Ooi C., Bullmore E.T., Lutti A. Quantitative multi-parameter mapping of R1, PD*, MT, and R2* at 3T: a multi-center validation. Front. Neurosci. 2013, 7:95. 10.3389/fnins.2013.00095.
37. Westman E., Aguilar C., Muehlboeck J.-S., Simmons A. Regional magnetic resonance imaging measures for multivariate analysis in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment. Brain Topogr 2013, 26:9-23. 10.1007/s10548-012-0246-x.
38. Whitwell J.L., Crum W.R., Watt H.C., Fox N.C. Normalization of cerebral volumes by use of intracranial volume: implications for longitudinal quantitative MR imaging. AJNR Am. J. Neuroradiol. 2001, 22:1483-1489.