ArticleBMC neurology2024
Diagnostic utility of brain MRI volumetry in comparing traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer disease and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.
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- From Traumatic Brain Injury to Alzheimer's Disease: Multilevel Biomechanical, Neurovascular, and Molecular Mechanisms with Emerging Therapeutic Directions.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Volumetric MRI and FDG-PET hypometabolism biomarkers of frontotemporal dementia: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Comparing deep learning CNN method with traditional MRI-based hippocampal segmentation and volumetry for early Alzheimer's disease diagnosis across diverse populations.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Automated hippocampal volume measurement: agreement analysis between HIPS and volBrain software.Radiologia brasileiraArticle
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backgroundBrain MRI with volumetric quantification, MRI volumetry, can improve diagnostic delineation of patients with neurocognitive disorders by identifying brain atrophy that may not be evident on visual assessments.
objectiveTo investigate diagnostic utility of MRI volumetry in traumatic brain injury (TBI), early-onset Alzheimer disease (EOAD), late-onset Alzheimer disease, and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD).
methodWe utilized 137 participants of TBI (n = 40), EOAD (n = 45), LOAD (n = 32), and bvFTD (n = 20). Participants had 3D T1 brain MRI imaging amendable to MRI volumetry. Scan volumes were analyzed with Neuroreader. One-way ANOVA compared brain volumes across diagnostic groups. Discriminant analysis was done with leave-one-out cross validation on Neuroreader metrics to determine diagnostic delineation across groups.
resultLOAD was the oldest compared to other groups (F = 27.5, p < .001). There were no statistically significant differences in sex (p = .58) with women comprising 54.7% of the entire cohort. EOAD and LOAD had the lowest Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) scores compared to TBI (p = .04 for EOAD and p = .01 for LOAD). LOAD had lowest hippocampal volumes (Left Hippocampus F = 13.1, Right Hippocampus F = 7.3, p < .001), low white matter volume in TBI (F = 5.9, p < .001), lower left parietal lobe volume in EOAD (F = 9.4, p < .001), and lower total gray matter volume in bvFTD (F = 32.8, p < .001) and caudate atrophy (F = 1737.5, p < .001). Areas under the curve ranged from 92.3 to 100%, sensitivity between 82.2 and 100%, specificity of 78.1-100%. TBI was the most accurately delineated diagnosis. Predictive features included caudate, frontal, parietal, temporal lobar and total white matter volumes.
conclusionWe identified the diagnostic utility of regional volumetric differences across multiple neurocognitive disorders. Brain MRI volumetry is widely available and can be applied in distinguishing these disorders.
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