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    A comparison of automated segmentation and manual tracing in estimating hippocampal volume in ischemic stroke and healthy control participants

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    Khlif, MS; Egorova, N; Werden, E; Redolfi, A; Boccardi, M; DeCarli, CS; Fletcher, E; Singh, B; Li, Q; Bird, L; ...
    Date
    2019-01-01
    Source Title
    NeuroImage: Clinical
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    ELSEVIER SCI LTD
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Egorova, Natalia; Khlif, Mohamed Salah; Werden, Emile; Brodtmann, Amy; Li, Qi; Bird, Laura
    Affiliation
    Medicine and Radiology
    Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health
    Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
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    Khlif, M. S., Egorova, N., Werden, E., Redolfi, A., Boccardi, M., DeCarli, C. S., Fletcher, E., Singh, B., Li, Q., Bird, L. & Brodtmann, A. (2019). A comparison of automated segmentation and manual tracing in estimating hippocampal volume in ischemic stroke and healthy control participants. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL, 21, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2018.10.019.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/253286
    DOI
    10.1016/j.nicl.2018.10.019
    ARC Grant code
    ARC/DE180100893
    Abstract
    Manual quantification of the hippocampal atrophy state and rate is time consuming and prone to poor reproducibility, even when performed by neuroanatomical experts. The automation of hippocampal segmentation has been investigated in normal aging, epilepsy, and in Alzheimer's disease. Our first goal was to compare manual and automated hippocampal segmentation in ischemic stroke and to, secondly, study the impact of stroke lesion presence on hippocampal volume estimation. We used eight automated methods to segment T1-weighted MR images from 105 ischemic stroke patients and 39 age-matched controls sampled from the Cognition And Neocortical Volume After Stroke (CANVAS) study. The methods were: AdaBoost, Atlas-based Hippocampal Segmentation (ABHS) from the IDeALab, Computational Anatomy Toolbox (CAT) using 3 atlas variants (Hammers, LPBA40 and Neuromorphometics), FIRST, FreeSurfer v5.3, and FreeSurfer v6.0-Subfields. A number of these methods were employed to re-segment the T1 images for the stroke group after the stroke lesions were masked (i.e., removed). The automated methods were assessed on eight measures: process yield (i.e. segmentation success rate), correlation (Pearson's R and Shrout's ICC), concordance (Lin's RC and Kandall's W), slope 'a' of best-fit line from correlation plots, percentage of outliers from Bland-Altman plots, and significance of control-stroke difference. We eliminated the redundant measures after analysing between-measure correlations using Spearman's rank correlation. We ranked the automated methods based on the sum of the remaining non-redundant measures where each measure ranged between 0 and 1. Subfields attained an overall score of 96.3%, followed by AdaBoost (95.0%) and FIRST (94.7%). CAT using the LPBA40 atlas inflated hippocampal volumes the most, while the Hammers atlas returned the smallest volumes overall. FIRST (p = 0.014), FreeSurfer v5.3 (p = 0.007), manual tracing (p = 0.049), and CAT using the Neuromorphometics atlas (p = 0.017) all showed a significantly reduced hippocampal volume mean for the stroke group compared to control at three months. Moreover, masking of the stroke lesions prior to segmentation resulted in hippocampal volumes which agreed less with manual tracing. These findings recommend an automated segmentation without lesion masking as a more reliable procedure for the estimation of hippocampal volume in ischemic stroke.

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