Mr. Brian D. Boyd Profile

Brian D. Boyd

at Vanderbilt Univ

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Proceedings Article | 2 April 2024 Poster + Paper

Predicting age from white matter diffusivity with residual learning

Chenyu Gao, Michael Kim, Ho Hin Lee, Qi Yang, Nazirah Mohd Khairi, Praitayini Kanakaraj, Nancy Newlin, Derek Archer, Angela Jefferson, Warren Taylor, Brian Boyd, Lori Beason-Held, Susan Resnick, Yuankai Huo, Katherine Van Schaik, Kurt Schilling, Daniel Moyer, Ivana Išgum, Bennett Landman

Proceedings Volume 12926, 129262I (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3006525

KEYWORDS: Brain, Diffusion tensor imaging, Data modeling, White matter, Neuroimaging, Deep learning, Alzheimer disease, Convolutional neural networks, Computer vision technology, Image registration

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Imaging findings inconsistent with those expected at specific chronological age ranges may serve as early indicators of neurological disorders and increased mortality risk. Estimation of chronological age, and deviations from expected results, from structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data has become an important proxy task for developing biomarkers that are sensitive to such deviations. Complementary to structural analysis, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has proven effective in identifying age-related microstructural changes within the brain white matter, thereby presenting itself as a promising additional modality for brain age prediction. Although early studies have sought to harness DTI’s advantages for age estimation, there is no evidence that the success of this prediction is owed to the unique microstructural and diffusivity features that DTI provides, rather than the macrostructural features that are also available in DTI data. Therefore, we seek to develop white-matter-specific age estimation to capture deviations from normal white matter aging. Specifically, we deliberately disregard the macrostructural information when predicting age from DTI scalar images, using two distinct methods. The first method relies on extracting only microstructural features from regions of interest (ROIs). The second applies 3D residual neural networks (ResNets) to learn features directly from the images, which are nonlinearly registered and warped to a template to minimize macrostructural variations. When tested on unseen data, the first method yields mean absolute error (MAE) of 6.11 ± 0.19 years for cognitively normal participants and MAE of 6.62 ± 0.30 years for cognitively impaired participants, while the second method achieves MAE of 4.69 ± 0.23 years for cognitively normal participants and MAE of 4.96 ± 0.28 years for cognitively impaired participants. We find that the ResNet model captures subtler, non-macrostructural features for brain age prediction.

Proceedings Article | 13 March 2017 Presentation + Paper

DAX - the next generation: towards one million processes on commodity hardware

Stephen Damon, Brian Boyd, Andrew Plassard, Warren Taylor, Bennett Landman

Proceedings Volume 10138, 101380C (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254371

KEYWORDS: Image processing, Imaging informatics, Neuroimaging, Data processing, Databases, Translational research, Technologies and applications, Medical imaging, Information science, Medicine, Data storage, Electrical engineering, Psychiatry, Data acquisition

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