Multivariate varying coefficient models for DTI tract statistics.

TitleMultivariate varying coefficient models for DTI tract statistics.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsZhu, Hongtu, Martin Styner, Yimei Li, Linglong Kong, Yundi Shi, Weili Lin, Christopher Coe, and John H. Gilmore
JournalMed Image Comput Comput Assist Interv
Volume13
IssuePt 1
Pagination690-7
Date Published2010
KeywordsAlgorithms, Axons, Brain, Computer Simulation, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Humans, Image Enhancement, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, Models, Neurological, Multivariate Analysis, Nerve Fibers, Myelinated, Pattern Recognition, Automated, Reproducibility of Results, Sensitivity and Specificity, Statistical Distributions
Abstract

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is important for characterizing the structure of white matter fiber bundles as well as detailed tissue properties along these fiber bundles in vivo. There has been extensive interest in the analysis of diffusion properties measured along fiber tracts as a function of age, diagnostic status, and gender, while controlling for other clinical variables. However, the existing methods have several limitations including the independent analysis of diffusion properties, a lack of method for accounting for multiple covariates, and a lack of formal statistical inference, such as estimation theory and hypothesis testing. This paper presents a statistical framework, called VCMTS, to specifically address these limitations. The VCMTS framework consists of four integrated components: a varying coefficient model for characterizing the association between fiber bundle diffusion properties and a set of covariates, the local polynomial kernel method for estimating smoothed multiple diffusion properties along individual fiber bundles, global and local test statistics for testing hypotheses of interest along fiber tracts, and a resampling method for approximating the p-value of the global test statistic. The proposed methodology is applied to characterizing the development of four diffusion properties along the splenium and genu of the corpus callosum tract in a study of neurodevelopment in healthy rhesus monkeys. Significant time effects on the four diffusion properties were found.

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-15705-9_84
Alternate JournalMed Image Comput Comput Assist Interv
Original PublicationMultivariate varying coefficient models for DTI tract statistics.
PubMed ID20879291
PubMed Central IDPMC2964931
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