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Regression Models of Atlas Appearance

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Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI 2009)

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Models of object appearance based on principal components analysis provide powerful and versatile tools in computer vision and medical image analysis. A major shortcoming is that they rely entirely on the training data to extract principal modes of appearance variation and ignore underlying variables (e.g., subject age, gender). This paper introduces an appearance modeling framework based instead on generalized multi-linear regression. The training of regression appearance models is controlled by independent variables. This makes it straightforward to create model instances for specific values of these variables, which is akin to model interpolation. We demonstrate the new framework by creating an appearance model of the human brain from MR images of 36 subjects. Instances of the model created for different ages are compared with average shape atlases created from age-matched sub-populations. Relative tissue volumes vs. age in models are also compared with tissue volumes vs. subject age in the original images. In both experiments, we found excellent agreement between the regression models and the comparison data. We conclude that regression appearance models are a promising new technique for image analysis, with one potential application being the representation of a continuum of mutually consistent, age-specific atlases of the human brain.

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  1. Neuroscience Program, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA

    Torsten Rohlfing & Adolf Pfefferbaum

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Edith V. Sullivan & Adolf Pfefferbaum

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, MD 21218, Baltimore, USA

    Jerry L. Prince

  2. Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, 600 North Wolfe Street, MD 21287, Baltimore, USA

    Dzung L. Pham

  3. Division of Imaging and Applied Mathematics, OSEL, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, MD 20993, Silver Spring, USA

    Kyle J. Myers

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Rohlfing, T., Sullivan, E.V., Pfefferbaum, A. (2009). Regression Models of Atlas Appearance. In: Prince, J.L., Pham, D.L., Myers, K.J. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. IPMI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5636. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02498-6_13

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