Background The medial temporal lobe (MTL, i.e. hippocampus and adjacent cortices) is particularly vulnerable to age-related diseases: Alzheimer’s disease, other age-related proteinothies (TDP-43, AGD, etc) and vascul...
Background The medial temporal lobe (MTL, i.e. hippocampus and adjacent cortices) is particularly vulnerable to age-related diseases: Alzheimer’s disease, other age-related proteinothies (TDP-43, AGD, etc) and vascular injury. Yet, the subregional pattern of vulnerability is thought to differ across etiologies; characterizing these differences using high-resolution MRI may provide more insight in disease processes and better biomarkers. However, substantial differences in subfield definition has hindered the ability to compare results across laboratories or draw robust conclusions (Figure 1). The Hippocampal Subfields Group (HSG) is an international group seeking to remedy this problem by developing a histologically-valid, reliable, and freely available segmentation protocol for high-resolution T2-weighted 3T MRI (http://***) Method Our workflow consists of five steps: 1) collecting histology samples labeled by multiple expert neuroanatomists to form a novel reference dataset to guide the development of the MRI segmentation protocol, 2) developing boundary definitions for each segment of the hippocampus, (head, body, and tail) and MTL cortices), 3) assessing HSG community agreement with boundary rules via online questionnaires and revising boundary rules based on questionnaire responses, and 4) testing reliability of the protocol definitions on multiple MRI datasets. Result For both the hippocampal body and head, we have developed a preliminary subfield segmentation protocol (i.e. completed steps 1-2, see Figure 2 for a histology slice segmented by three anatomists). Step 3 was piloted for the outer boundaries of the body (i.e., the anterior/posterior, medial/lateral, and superior/inferior boundaries) using an online questionnaire describing each of the proposed rules. 29 labs participated and consensus agreement was reached for all rules, with only minor changes being made to improve comprehension and clarity. We are now creating and admini
We describe the design and results from the BraTS 2023 Intracranial Meningioma Segmentation Challenge. The BraTS Meningioma Challenge differed from prior BraTS Glioma challenges in that it focused on meningiomas, whic...
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