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Chapter 6 Conclusions 139<br />

Given the correspon<strong>de</strong>nce established on the hippocampal shape data in the SSM,<br />

we proposed a new method to extrapolate the SSM to unseen data, <strong>and</strong> propagate<br />

the correspon<strong>de</strong>nce over the SSM to the shape surface of the unseen case. An<br />

expectation-maximization iterative closest points (EM-ICP) algorithm is used to<br />

mo<strong>de</strong>l the probabilistic correspon<strong>de</strong>nce between the mo<strong>de</strong>l <strong>and</strong> the surface. The<br />

SSM parameters <strong>de</strong>scribing the shape surface is estimated given the expected cor-<br />

respon<strong>de</strong>nce. The symmetry between the mo<strong>de</strong>l <strong>and</strong> the surface in the estimation<br />

is imposed by adding the consistent data term. The extension of maximum like-<br />

lihood (ML) estimator to maximum a posteriori estimator by adding a Tikhonov<br />

regularization term is facilitated with the a priori shape distribution mo<strong>de</strong>led by<br />

the SSM. The symmetric consistency improves the precision of the estimation in<br />

terms of a reconstruction of the shape from the mo<strong>de</strong>l better fitting the point<br />

set data. The MAP estimator with regularization is shown to give more accurate<br />

estimation of shape parameters avoiding the effect of overfitting to the noisy data<br />

<strong>and</strong> foldings in the reconstruction.<br />

6.1.3 <strong>Shape</strong> analysis of hippocampus in Alzheimer’s disease<br />

We used the SSM to mo<strong>de</strong>l the shape variance of hippocampi among the el<strong>de</strong>rly<br />

population consisting of both normal control subjects <strong>and</strong> patients diagnosed with<br />

AD. We used Hotelling’s T 2 test on the aligned corresponding hippocampal l<strong>and</strong>-<br />

marks between the normal <strong>and</strong> AD subpopulations to i<strong>de</strong>ntify the regions affected<br />

by the atrophy due to the disease. The shape analysis was then localized to the<br />

regions exhibiting significant difference between the controls <strong>and</strong> AD, which was<br />

shown to improve the discrimination ability of the principal component analysis<br />

(PCA) based SSM. The principal components <strong>de</strong>scribing the localized shape vari-<br />

ability among the population were also shown to display stronger correlation with<br />

the <strong>de</strong>cline of episodic memory scores in the neuro<strong>de</strong>generative process of AD.

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