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132 Chapter 5 Quantitative shape analysis of hippocampus in AD<br />

Figure 5.13: Three-dimensional representation of hippocampal subfields by<br />

La Joie et al. (2010): CA1 (blue), subiculum (green) <strong>and</strong> other (pink) subfields<br />

obtained by manual <strong>de</strong>lineation of the three hippocampal subfields onto the<br />

DARTEL whole-brain group template, using l<strong>and</strong>marks adapted from Harding<br />

et al. (1998).<br />

The current results <strong>de</strong>monstrate the potentiality in improving discrimination abil-<br />

ity of SSM by localizing the mo<strong>de</strong>l to hippocampal subregions. The optimal thresh-<br />

old selecting the l<strong>and</strong>marks on the training set does not give the optimal classifi-<br />

cation performance on the testing set, which calls for more targeted localization<br />

of the atrophy than simple thresholding. In addition to the statistical difference<br />

in the l<strong>and</strong>mark position, histological <strong>and</strong> anatomical knowledge of hippocampus<br />

may be incorporated into the i<strong>de</strong>ntification of regions in or<strong>de</strong>r capture the shape<br />

variation that is more closely linked to the AD pathology.<br />

5.6.4 Correlation analysis<br />

Since the accuracy of classification could possibly be the results of overfitting of<br />

the given data, the correlation analysis connects the link between shape compo-<br />

nents explaining most shape variations on the selected subregions <strong>and</strong> the memory<br />

<strong>de</strong>cline in the disease, confirming that the subregional shape components display-<br />

ing higher discrimination ability are related to the <strong>de</strong>velopment of the disease.

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