Parallel transport in diffeomorphisms distinguishes the time-dependent pattern of hippocampal surface deformation due to healthy aging and the dementia of the Alzheimer's type - Qiu, Anqi; Younes, Laurent; Miller, Michael I.; Csernansky, John G. (NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.), 2008)
Keywords: Aged; Aging - pathology; Aging - physiology; Algorithms; Alzheimer Disease - pathology; Alzheimer's disease; Brain Mapping; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Deformation; Dementia; Euclidean space; Female; Hippocampus; Hippocampus - growth & development; Hippocampus - pathology; Humans; Hypothesis testing; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; LDDMM; Longitudinal Studies; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical imaging; Methods; Normal Distribution; Parallel transport; Shape analysis; LDDMM; Shape analysis; Alzheimer's disease; Parallel transport; Hippocampus