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Chapter 2 Literature Review 41<br />

specific task. We will <strong>de</strong>velop methodologies in various aspects of this approach<br />

including the atlas construction <strong>and</strong> atlas selection. Based on the segmented hip-<br />

pocampal volumes, the groupwise optimization of MDL is used to establish the<br />

correspon<strong>de</strong>nce across the data set of hippocampal shapes, which is used to build<br />

the hippocampal SSMs. We propose an EM-ICP based method to extrapolate the<br />

SSM to unseen data <strong>and</strong> estimate the shape parameters. Then we use the built<br />

SSM to analyze hippocampal shape changes in AD. We propose to restrict the<br />

shape analysis to the hippocampal subregions where significant difference between<br />

the healty controls <strong>and</strong> AD patients, which is shown in improve the discrimina-<br />

tion ability of the PCA-based hippocampal SSM, <strong>and</strong> better correlated with the<br />

episodic memory <strong>de</strong>cline in AD.

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