Combining multiple anatomical MRI measures improves Alzheimer's disease classification

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1920-1929

  de Vos, Frank ^a,b   Schouten, Tijn M ^a,b   Hafkemeijer, Anne ^a,b   Dopper, Elise G P ^b,c,d   van Swieten, John C ^c,d   de Rooij, Mark ^a   van der Grond, Jeroen ^b   Rombouts, Serge A R B ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Anatomical MRI; Classification; Cortical area; Cortical curvature; Cortical thickness; Grey matter density; Hippocampal shape; Subcortical volumes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL AREA; CORTICAL CURVATURE; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; GREY MATTER DENSITY; HIPPOCAMPAL SHAPE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCORTICAL VOLUME; VERY ELDERLY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84963532467     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23147     Document Type: Article

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