2009 Summer Project Week Statistical Toolbox
Key Investigators
- Robarts Research/UWO: Diego Cantor
Objective
The objective of this project is to build a statistical toolbox for brain images, and integrate this toolbox into Slicer. Current tools such as SurfStat and SPM allow to run statistical experiments in two levels. The first level correspond to a single subject study where the progression of a disease, the effect of a drug or the functional activation (fMRI) is analyzed over time. The second level correspond to cross-sectional studies where multiple subjects are compared using designs such as ANOVA and T-tests in all its varieties.
The proposal is then to construct a third level where single-subject or multiple-subject experiments can be carried out using information from modalities simultaneously. In such environment, every subject has a set of images(anatomical MR, functional MR, PET data, etc...) and the statistics are taken on vectors. Each vector is composed by the respective intensities in the image set.
Approach, Plan
Due to the complexity of this toolbox. The plan is to break it down in several releases or milestones.
First Milestone
- The images should be spatially normalized and registered to an atlas
- The experiments are read/written using XML
- Trilinear interpolation is used when the images in the set have different resolutions
- There are not covariates
- The only test available is a T^2 Hotelling test comparing all subjects against the mean
- Uncorrected p-values and Family-wise p-values are available
- When the dimension is 1. The T^2 test is reduced to a regular t-test and this is verifiable
- The integration with Slicer is resolved
Second Milestone
- Global and local plots are available
- Summary statistics are available (Global/local)
- Extent threshold is available
- Two-sample T^2 test is available
- Likelihood Ratio Test is available
Progress
