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. 2009 Jan 1;44(1):99-111.
doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.08.045. Epub 2008 Sep 20.

Issues with threshold masking in voxel-based morphometry of atrophied brains

Gerard R Ridgway  1 , Rohani Omar, Sébastien Ourselin, Derek L G Hill, Jason D Warren, Nick C Fox
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Issues with threshold masking in voxel-based morphometry of atrophied brains

Gerard R Ridgway et al. Neuroimage. .
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Abstract

There is great interest in using automatic computational neuroanatomy tools to study ageing and neurodegenerative disease. Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) is one of the most widely used of such techniques. VBM performs voxel-wise statistical analysis of smoothed spatially normalised segmented Magnetic Resonance Images. There are several reasons why the analysis should include only voxels within a certain mask. We show that one of the most commonly used strategies for defining this mask runs a major risk of excluding from the analysis precisely those voxels where the subjects' brains were most vulnerable to atrophy. We investigate the issues related to mask construction, and recommend the use of alternative strategies which greatly decrease this danger of false negatives.

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