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First, I propose a surface fluid registration system, which extends the traditional image fluid registration to surfaces. With surface conformal parameterization, the complexity of the proposed registration formula has been greatly reduced, compared to prior methods. Inverse consistency is also incorporated to drive a symmetric correspondence between surfaces. After registration, the multivariate tensor-based morphometry (mTBM) is computed to measure local shape deformations. The algorithm was applied to study hippocampal atrophy associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Next, I propose a ventricular surface registration algorithm based on hyperbolic Ricci flow, which computes a global conformal parameterization for each ventricular surface without introducing any singularity. Furthermore, in the parameter space, unique hyperbolic geodesic curves are introduced to guide consistent correspondences across subjects, a technique called geodesic curve lifting. Tensor-based morphometry (TBM) statistic is computed from the registration to measure shape changes. This algorithm was applied to study ventricular enlargement in mild cognitive impatient (MCI) converters.
Finally, a new shape index, the hyperbolic Wasserstein distance, is introduced. This algorithm computes the Wasserstein distance between general topological surfaces as a shape similarity measure of different surfaces. It is based on hyperbolic Ricci flow, hyperbolic harmonic map, and optimal mass transportation map, which is extended to hyperbolic space. This method fills a gap in the Wasserstein distance study, where prior work only dealt with images or genus-0 closed surfaces. The algorithm was applied in an AD vs. control cortical shape classification study and achieved promising accuracy rate.
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Many children born preterm exhibit frontal executive dysfunction, behavioral problems including attentional deficit/hyperactivity disorder and attention related learning disabilities. Anomalies in regional specificity of cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuits may underlie deficits in these disorders. Nonspecific volumetric deficits of striatal structures have been documented in these subjects, but little is known about surface deformation in these structures. For the first time, here we found regional surface morphological differences in the preterm neonatal ventral striatum. We performed regional group comparisons of the surface anatomy of the striatum (putamen and globus pallidus) between 17 preterm and 19 term-born neonates at term-equivalent age. We reconstructed striatal surfaces from manually segmented brain magnetic resonance images and analyzed them using our in-house conformal mapping program. All surfaces were registered to a template with a new surface fluid registration method. Vertex-based statistical comparisons between the two groups were performed via four methods: univariate and multivariate tensor-based morphometry, the commonly used medial axis distance, and a combination of the last two statistics. We found statistically significant differences in regional morphology between the two groups that are consistent across statistics, but more extensive for multivariate measures. Differences were localized to the ventral aspect of the striatum. In particular, we found abnormalities in the preterm anterior/inferior putamen, which is interconnected with the medial orbital/prefrontal cortex and the midline thalamic nuclei including the medial dorsal nucleus and pulvinar. These findings support the hypothesis that the ventral striatum is vulnerable, within the cortico-stiato-thalamo-cortical neural circuitry, which may underlie the risk for long-term development of frontal executive dysfunction, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and attention-related learning disabilities in preterm neonates.