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Three-Dimensional Shape Modeling and Analysis of Brain Structures
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Statistical analysis of twin populations using dissimilarity measurements in hippocampus shape space
Youngser Park1, Carey E Priebe, Michael I Miller
1Center for Imaging Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. youngser@jhu.edu
Journal of Biomedicine & Biotechnology
|March 5, 2008
Abstract:
By analyzing interpoint comparisons, we obtain significant results describing the relationship in "hippocampus shape space" of clinically depressed, high-risk, and control populations. In particular, our analysis demonstrates that the high-risk population is closer in shape space to the control population than to the clinically depressed population.
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