an International Distributed Environment ) Isabella Castiglioni - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
an International Distributed Environment ) Isabella Castiglioni - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
SPM technique for DECIDE (Diagnostic Enhancement of Confidence by an International Distributed Environment ) Isabella Castiglioni Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology (IBFM) National Research Council (CNR), Italy DECIDE
Assisted diagnosis assist physicians in the interpretation of medical images Diagnostic Enhancement of Confidence
Computer-Aided Assisted (CAD) diagnosis CAD
- Probability of a
specific disease
- biomarker value
- characteristic
pattern
- …
SPM: Statistical Parametric Mapping
- developed by the Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging (London, UK) in 1995
Maps of statistically significant hypo/hyper metabolic regions
- free available (software package) to the scientific community since 1996
(spm96-spm2008) Friston KJ Holmes AP Worsley KJ Poline JB Frith CD and Frackowiak RSJ. (1995b) Statistical Parametric Maps in functional imaging: A general linear approach Hum. Brain Mapp. 2:189-210
- btained by functional neuroimaging studies (es. 18FDG-PET)
Computer-Aided Assisted (CAD) diagnosis
- characteristic metabolic
pattern
- probability
e.g.“subject has a 95% chance of having that pattern.”
associated to a
SPM: Statistical Parametric Mapping
Analysis: voxel by voxel
Comparison of N different conditions of a single subject Hypothesis CONDITIONS N
- 1. health
- 4. health
N-1. health
- N. pathological
real CONDITIONS
- 1. Health subject 1
N-1. health subject N-1
- N. pathological
. . . . . . . . . . . . NORMATIVE GROUP
SPM and 18FDG PET for neurodegenerative studies
- 2. health
- 3. health
- 2. Health subject 2
- 3. Health subject 3
- 4. Health subject 4
Covariates of interests:
SPM and 18FDG PET for neurodegenerative studies
AGE SEX Normal aging hypometabolism Smaller brain, global lower metabolism
t-test: single subject (suspected Alzheimer’s disease) vs group of normal subjects Hypo-metabolism Normal metabolism Results: Maps of statistically significant hypometabolic regions vs Analysis: voxel by voxel General Linear Model Statistical inference p<0.05
SPM and 18FDG PET for neurodegenerative studies
Coregistration to standard atlas (Elestic deformation + affine traslation) Standard atlas Spatial rialignement +normalization Original images
SPM and 18FDG PET for neurodegenerative studies
Smoothed images Spatially-normalized images Smoothing
SPM and 18FDG PET for neurodegenerative studies
Patient images Spatial normalization standard atlas Smoothing Statistical parameter maps Genera l Linear Model parameter estimates Statistical design matrix Statistical inference p<0.05
SPM and 18FDG PET for neurodegenerative studies
18F-FDG PET study: SPM Diagnostic report for a patient with suspected AD.
The coloured regions identified by SPM (retrosplenial cortex and bilateral temporal- parietal) are typical of AD pattern.
SPM
- Matlab licence
- Normal subject database
- Expertise in the use of SPM
- Interaction with the software
interface during image processing Requirements
ISSUES
SPM e-services for the assisted diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases: the FP7-Eu project DECIDE (Diagnostic Enhancement of Confidence by an International Distributed Environment) THE SOLUTION
SPM e-services in DECIDE (GridSPM) SPM
- Matlab licence
- Normal subject database
- Expertise in the use of SPM
- Interaction with the software
interface during image processing
- Centralized/Grid porting
Requirements Requirements
- Collected by DECIDE clinical partners
- Process is simpified/Users are trained
- Avoided