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:** 2.3. Applying transformation to the parcellation map
 
:** 2.3. Applying transformation to the parcellation map
 
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:* '''3. Cortical Thickness'''
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:* '''3. Cortical thickness measurement'''
 
:** Sparse asymmetric local cortical thickness
 
:** Sparse asymmetric local cortical thickness
 
:** Tool: CortThick (UNC Slicer3 external module)
 
:** Tool: CortThick (UNC Slicer3 external module)
 
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:** Generate spreesheats with volume informations
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:** Volume information (WM, GM, CSF, lobes) stored in spreadsheet
 
:** Tools: ImageMath, ImageStat (UNC Slicer3 external modules)
 
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:** Generation of white matter and grey matter meshes
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:** White matter and grey matter meshes creation
 
:** Tool: ModelMaker (Slicer3 module)
 
:** Tool: ModelMaker (Slicer3 module)
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:** Creation of a MRML scene describing all the steps of the pipeline
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:** MRML scene creation allowing quality control for each step of the pipeline
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:** Output images and surfaces are automatically displayed
  
 
All the tools used in the current pipeline are Slicer3 modules, some of them being UNC external modules.
 
All the tools used in the current pipeline are Slicer3 modules, some of them being UNC external modules.
 
The user can thus compute an individual regional cortical thickness analysis by running the 'ARCTIC' module, either within Slicer3 or as a command line.
 
The user can thus compute an individual regional cortical thickness analysis by running the 'ARCTIC' module, either within Slicer3 or as a command line.
  
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== ARCTIC Download ==
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== Download ==
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=== Source code available with CVS ===
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=== ARCTIC download ===
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Source code, executables and tutorial are available on [http://www.nitrc.org/projects/arctic NITRC]
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* Be sure that the 2.6 version of CMake is installed on your computer.  [http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html| ‏If not download it here]
 
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=== Executables and tutorial dataset ===  
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=== Complementary downloads ===
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Available on NITRC : http://www.nitrc.org/projects/arctic/
 
  
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== Complementary Downloads ==
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==== Brain atlases ====
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Four brain atlases are available on MIDAS:
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:* [http://www.insight-journal.org/midas/item/view/2277 Pediatric atlas]
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:* [http://www.insight-journal.org/midas/item/view/2328 Adult atlas]
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:* [http://www.insight-journal.org/midas/item/view/2330 Elderly atlas]
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:* [http://www.insight-journal.org/midas/item/view/2283 Primate atlas]
  
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=== Pediatric atlas ===  
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==== Pediatric Brain MRI data ====  
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Available on MIDAS : http://www.insight-journal.org/midas/item/view/2277
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[http://insight-journal.org/midas/community/view/24 Data of 2 autistic children and 2 normal controls] (male, female) scanned at 2 years with follow up at 4 years from a 1.5T Siemens scanner. Files include structural data, tissue segmentation label map and subcortical structures segmentation.
  
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=== Tutorials ===
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• '''ARCTIC tutorial''' : end-to-end Slicer3 module to perform automatic regional cortical thickness analysis[[Media:ARCTIC-Slicer3-Tutorial.ppt|‏ [ppt]]][[Media:ARCTIC-Slicer3-Tutorial.pdf|‏ [pdf]]]
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*'''ARCTIC tutorial''' : end-to-end Slicer3 module to perform automatic regional cortical thickness analysis[[Media:ARCTIC-Slicer3-Tutorial.ppt|‏ [ppt]]][[Media:ARCTIC-Slicer3-Tutorial.pdf|‏ [pdf]]]
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**1st Prize: NAMIC tutorial contest AHM 2009
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**2nd Prize: NAMIC tutorial contest summer project week 2009
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*'''UNC Modules tutorial''' : UNC Slicer3 modules to perform regional cortical thickness analysis step by step[[Media:UNC_Modules-Slicer3-Tutorial.ppt| [ppt]‏]][[Media:UNC_Modules-Slicer3-Tutorial.pdf| [pdf]‏]]
  
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• '''UNC Modules tutorial''' : UNC Slicer3 modules to perform regional cortical thickness analysis step by step[[Media:UNC_Modules-Slicer3-Tutorial.ppt| [ppt]‏]][[Media:UNC_Modules-Slicer3-Tutorial.pdf| [pdf]‏]]
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*'''[https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Modules:ARCTIC-Documentation-3.6 Online documentation within Slicer 3.6]'''
  
 
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== ARCTIC (Automatic Regional Cortical ThICkness) usage: ==
 
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Add directories to the PATH variable
 
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  -tcsh usage : setenv PATH ARCTIC-Executables-Directory:Slicer3D-Plugins-Directory:Batchmake-Directory:${PATH}
 
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  Notice : To execute ARCTIC within Slicer3D, it is not necessary to add "Slicer3D-Plugins-Directory" in the PATH.
 
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  ARCTIC --T1 Image_T1.gipl --segAtlasDir TissueSegmentationAtlasDirectory/ --atlas Atlas.gipl --atlasParcellation Parcellation.gipl
 
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  --SaveWM  WMCorticalThicknessMap.gipl / --SaveGM GMCorticalThicknessMap.gipl : those flags are used to save a volume with information of the average cortical thickness on WM/GM boundary(ies), the fileName needed is a path with the name of the output volume
 
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== Pipeline validation ==
 
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=== Comparison to state of the art ===
 
=== Comparison to state of the art ===
  
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We would like to compare our pipeline with FreeSurfer. We have thus started to perform a regional statistical analysis using Pearson's correlation coefficient on a pediatric dataset including 90 cases.
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We would like to compare our pipeline with FreeSurfer. We have thus performed a [[DBP2:UNC:Cortical_Thickness_Comparison | regional statistical analysis]] based on Pearson's correlation on an adult dataset (FreeSurfer's publicly available dataset) including 40 cases. We also performed [[DBP2:UNC:Cortical_Thickness_Comparison#Tests_on_a_longitudinal_pediatric_autism_study | tests on a longitudinal autism study]] of 86 subject aged 2-4 years.
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== Planning ==
 
== Planning ==
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:* Workflow for individual analysis (Slicer3 external module using BatchMake)
 
:* Workflow for individual analysis (Slicer3 external module using BatchMake)
 
:* 2 Tutorials with application example on a small dataset : "How to use the UNC modules to compute the regional cortical thickness" and "How to use ARCTIC"
 
:* 2 Tutorials with application example on a small dataset : "How to use the UNC modules to compute the regional cortical thickness" and "How to use ARCTIC"
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:* ARCTIC available to the community through NITRC: executables (UNC external modules for Slicer3) and Tutorial dataset
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:* ARCTIC available to the community via NITRC: executables (UNC external modules for Slicer3) and Tutorial dataset
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:** New version including quality control through MRML scene, and WM, GM models generation  
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:** Mac and windows executables also available on to the community through NITRC
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:** Input images orientation automatically managed by ARCTIC
 
:* ARCTIC source code (SVN, CVS) available to the community
 
:* ARCTIC source code (SVN, CVS) available to the community
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:* ARCTIC executable can be downloaded directly within Slicer3 using the extension wizard
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== References ==
  
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*Hazlett HC, Poe MD, Gerig G, Styner M, Chappell C, Smith RG, Vachet, C., & Piven, J., Early brain overgrowth in autism results from an increase in cortical surface area before age 2, Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2011;68(5):1-10
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*H.C. Hazlett, C. Vachet, C. Mathieu, M. Styner, J. Piven, Use of the Slicer3 Toolkit to Produce Regional Cortical Thickness Measurement of Pediatric MRI Data, presented at the 8th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) Chicago, IL 2009.
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*C. Mathieu, C. Vachet, H.C. Hazlett, G. Geric, J. Piven, and M. Styner, ARCTIC – Automatic Regional Cortical ThICkness Tool, UNC Radiology Research Day 2009 abstract

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Objective

We would like to create an end-to-end application within Slicer3 allowing individual and group analysis of regional cortical thickness.

This page describes the related pipeline with its basic components, as well as its validation.


Pipeline overview

A Slicer3 high-level module for individual cortical thickness analysis has been developed: ARCTIC (Automatic Regional Cortical ThICkness)

Input: RAW images (T1-weighted, T2-weighted, PD-weighted images)

  • 1. Tissue segmentation
    • Probabilistic atlas-based automatic tissue segmentation via an Expectation-Maximization scheme
    • Tool: itkEMS (UNC Slicer3 external module)
  • 2. Regional atlas deformable registration
    • 2.1 Skull stripping using previously computed tissue segmentation label image
      • Tool: SegPostProcess (UNC Slicer3 external module)
    • 2.2 T1-weighted atlas deformable registration
      • B-spline pipeline registration
      • Tool: RegisterImages (Slicer3 module)
    • 2.3. Applying transformation to the parcellation map
      • Tool: ResampleVolume2 (Slicer3 module)
  • 3. Cortical thickness measurement
    • Sparse asymmetric local cortical thickness
    • Tool: CortThick (UNC Slicer3 external module)
  • 4. Statistics
    • Volume information (WM, GM, CSF, lobes) stored in spreadsheet
    • Tools: ImageMath, ImageStat (UNC Slicer3 external modules)
  • 5. Mesh creation
    • White matter and grey matter meshes creation
    • Tool: ModelMaker (Slicer3 module)
  • 6. MRML scene creation for quality control
    • MRML scene creation allowing quality control for each step of the pipeline
    • Output images and surfaces are automatically displayed

All the tools used in the current pipeline are Slicer3 modules, some of them being UNC external modules. The user can thus compute an individual regional cortical thickness analysis by running the 'ARCTIC' module, either within Slicer3 or as a command line.

Download

ARCTIC download

Source code, executables and tutorial are available on NITRC

Complementary downloads

Brain atlases

Four brain atlases are available on MIDAS:

Pediatric Brain MRI data

Data of 2 autistic children and 2 normal controls (male, female) scanned at 2 years with follow up at 4 years from a 1.5T Siemens scanner. Files include structural data, tissue segmentation label map and subcortical structures segmentation.

Tutorials

  • ARCTIC tutorial : end-to-end Slicer3 module to perform automatic regional cortical thickness analysis‏ [ppt]‏ [pdf]
    • 1st Prize: NAMIC tutorial contest AHM 2009
    • 2nd Prize: NAMIC tutorial contest summer project week 2009
  • UNC Modules tutorial : UNC Slicer3 modules to perform regional cortical thickness analysis step by step [ppt]‏ [pdf]‏
T1-weighted skull-stripped image
Parcellation image
Cortical thickness on WM surface
Cortical thickness information

Pipeline validation

Analysis on a small pediatric dataset

Tests have been computed on a small pediatric dataset which includes 2 year-old and 4 year-old cases.

  • 16 autistic cases
  • 1 developmental delay
  • 3 normal control

Comparison to state of the art

We would like to compare our pipeline with FreeSurfer. We have thus performed a regional statistical analysis based on Pearson's correlation on an adult dataset (FreeSurfer's publicly available dataset) including 40 cases. We also performed tests on a longitudinal autism study of 86 subject aged 2-4 years.

Planning

Done

  • Workflow for individual analysis (Slicer3 external module using BatchMake)
  • 2 Tutorials with application example on a small dataset : "How to use the UNC modules to compute the regional cortical thickness" and "How to use ARCTIC"
  • Pediatric and adult brain atlases available to the community via MIDAS
  • ARCTIC available to the community via NITRC: executables (UNC external modules for Slicer3) and Tutorial dataset
    • New version including quality control through MRML scene, and WM, GM models generation
    • Mac and windows executables also available on to the community through NITRC
    • Input images orientation automatically managed by ARCTIC
  • ARCTIC source code (SVN, CVS) available to the community
  • ARCTIC executable can be downloaded directly within Slicer3 using the extension wizard
  • Comparison to FreeSurfer (40 cases dataset): pearson correlation analysis

References

  • Hazlett HC, Poe MD, Gerig G, Styner M, Chappell C, Smith RG, Vachet, C., & Piven, J., Early brain overgrowth in autism results from an increase in cortical surface area before age 2, Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2011;68(5):1-10
  • H.C. Hazlett, C. Vachet, C. Mathieu, M. Styner, J. Piven, Use of the Slicer3 Toolkit to Produce Regional Cortical Thickness Measurement of Pediatric MRI Data, presented at the 8th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) Chicago, IL 2009.
  • C. Mathieu, C. Vachet, H.C. Hazlett, G. Geric, J. Piven, and M. Styner, ARCTIC – Automatic Regional Cortical ThICkness Tool, UNC Radiology Research Day 2009 abstract
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