Anatomo-clinical overlapping maps (AnaCOM): a new method to create anatomo-functional maps from neuropsychological tests and structural MRI scan of subjects with brain lesions

Serge R. J. Kinkingnehun; Foucaud du Boisgueheneuc; Jean-Louis Golmard; Sandy X. Zhang; Richard Levy; Bruno Dubois

doi:10.1117/12.535839

30 April 2004 Anatomo-clinical overlapping maps (AnaCOM): a new method to create anatomo-functional maps from neuropsychological tests and structural MRI scan of subjects with brain lesions

Serge R. J. Kinkingnehun, Foucaud du Boisgueheneuc, Jean-Louis Golmard, Sandy X. Zhang, Richard Levy, Bruno Dubois

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Proceedings Volume 5369, Medical Imaging 2004: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.535839
Event: Medical Imaging 2004, 2004, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We have developed a new technique to analyze correlations between brain anatomy and its neurological functions. The technique is based on the anatomic MRI of patients with brain lesions who are administered neuropsychological tests. Brain lesions of the MRI scans are first manually segmented. The MRI volumes are then normalized to a reference map, using the segmented area as a mask. After normalization, the brain lesions of the MRI are segmented again in order to redefine the border of the lesions in the context of the normalized brain. Once the MRI is segmented, the patient's score on the neuropsychological test is assigned to each voxel in the lesioned area, while the rest of the voxels of the image are set to 0. Subsequently, the individual patient's MRI images are superimposed, and each voxel is reassigned the average score of the patients who have a lesion at that voxel. A threshold is applied to remove regions having less than three overlaps. This process leads to an anatomo-functional map that links brain areas to functional loss. Other maps can be created to aid in analyzing the functional maps, such as one that indicates the 95% confidence interval of the averaged scores for each area. This anatomo-clinical overlapping map (AnaCOM) method was used to obtain functional maps from patients with lesions in the superior frontal gyrus. By finding particular subregions more responsible for a particular deficit, this method can generate new hypotheses to be tested by conventional group methods.

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Serge R. J. Kinkingnehun, Foucaud du Boisgueheneuc, Jean-Louis Golmard, Sandy X. Zhang, Richard Levy, and Bruno Dubois "Anatomo-clinical overlapping maps (AnaCOM): a new method to create anatomo-functional maps from neuropsychological tests and structural MRI scan of subjects with brain lesions", Proc. SPIE 5369, Medical Imaging 2004: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, (30 April 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.535839

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