Title
Intrinsic and extrinsic analysis in computational anatomy
Abstract
We present intrinsic and extrinsic methods for studying anatomical coordinates in order to perform statistical inference on random physiological signals F across clinical populations. In both intrinsic and extrinsic methods, we introduce generalized partition functions of the coordinates, ψ(x), x∈M, which are used to construct a random field of F on M as statistical model. In the intrinsic analysis, such partition functions are built intrinsically for individual anatomical coordinate based on Courant’s theorem on nodal analysis via self-adjoint linear elliptic differential operators. In contrast, the extrinsic method needs only one set of partition functions for a template coordinate system, and then applies to each anatomical coordinate system via diffeomorphic transformation. For illustration, we apply both intrinsic and extrinsic methods to a clinical study: cortical thickness variation of the left cingulate gyrus in schizophrenia. Both methods show that the left cingulate gyrus tends to become thinner in schizophrenia relative to the healthy control population. However, the intrinsic method increases the statistical power.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.08.043
NeuroImage
Keywords
Field
DocType
Extrinsic analysis,Intrinsic analysis,The Laplace–Beltrami operator,Nodal domain
Coordinate system,Computational anatomy,Population,Random field,Partition function (mathematics),Anatomical coordinate,Mathematical analysis,Statistical inference,Statistical model,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
39
4
1053-8119
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.86
14
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anqi Qiu157138.34
Laurent Younes21490120.48
Michael I Miller33123422.82