A method to estimate brain volume from head CT images and application to detect brain atrophy in Alzheimer disease

V Adduru, SA Baum, C Zhang… - American Journal …, 2020 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Total brain volume and total intracranial volume are
important measures for assessing whole-brain atrophy in Alzheimer disease, dementia, and …

A comparison of MR based segmentation methods for measuring brain atrophy progression

J de Bresser, MP Portegies, A Leemans, GJ Biessels… - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Automated brain segmentation methods with a good precision and accuracy are required to
detect subtle changes in brain volumes over time in clinical applications. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Accurate automatic estimation of total intracranial volume: a nuisance variable with less nuisance

IB Malone, KK Leung, S Clegg, J Barnes, JL Whitwell… - Neuroimage, 2015 - Elsevier
Total intracranial volume (TIV/ICV) is an important covariate for volumetric analyses of the
brain and brain regions, especially in the study of neurodegenerative diseases, where it can …

Basic MR sequence parameters systematically bias automated brain volume estimation

S Haller, P Falkovskiy, R Meuli, JP Thiran, G Krueger… - Neuroradiology, 2016 - Springer
Introduction Automated brain MRI morphometry, including hippocampal volumetry for
Alzheimer disease, is increasingly recognized as a biomarker. Consequently, a rapidly …

Automated cross-sectional and longitudinal hippocampal volume measurement in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

KK Leung, J Barnes, GR Ridgway, JW Bartlett… - Neuroimage, 2010 - Elsevier
Volume and change in volume of the hippocampus are both important markers of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Delineation of the structure on MRI is time-consuming and …

[HTML][HTML] Robustness of automated methods for brain volume measurements across different MRI field strengths

R Heinen, WH Bouvy, AM Mendrik, MA Viergever… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Pooling of multicenter brain imaging data is a trend in studies on ageing related
brain diseases. This poses challenges to MR-based brain segmentation. The performance …

Accelerated Brain Atrophy on Serial Computed Tomography: Potential Marker of the Progression of Alzheimer Disease.

A Mikheev, N Srivatsa, J Babb, U Samadani… - Journal of Computer …, 2016 - europepmc.org
Objective The aim of this study was to validate computed tomography (CT)-based
longitudinal markers of the progression of Alzheimer disease (AD). Materials and methods …

Automated algorithm to measure changes in medial temporal lobe volume in Alzheimer disease

S Kazemifar, JJ Drozd, N Rajakumar, MJ Borrie… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background The change in volume of anatomic structures is as a sensitive indicator of
Alzheimer disease (AD) progression. Although several methods are available to measure …

Normalization of cerebral volumes by use of intracranial volume: implications for longitudinal quantitative MR imaging

JL Whitwell, WR Crum, HC Watt… - American journal of …, 2001 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: MR-based volumetric measures of cerebral structures are
increasingly used for diagnostic purposes and to measure progression of atrophy. Variations …

Automated histogram-based brain segmentation in T1-weighted three-dimensional magnetic resonance head images

ZY Shan, GH Yue, JZ Liu - NeuroImage, 2002 - Elsevier
Current semiautomated magnetic resonance (MR)-based brain segmentation and volume
measurement methods are complex and not sufficiently accurate for certain applications. We …