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@ARTICLE{Wachinger:280031,
author = {Wachinger, Christian and Golland, Polina and Kremen,
William and Fischl, Bruce and Reuter, Martin},
title = {{B}rain{P}rint: {A} discriminative characterization of
brain morphology},
journal = {NeuroImage},
volume = {109},
issn = {1053-8119},
address = {Orlando, Fla.},
publisher = {Academic Press},
reportid = {DZNE-2025-00875},
pages = {232 - 248},
year = {2015},
abstract = {We introduce BrainPrint, a compact and discriminative
representation of brain morphology. BrainPrint captures
shape information of an ensemble of cortical and subcortical
structures by solving the eigenvalue problem of the 2D and
3D Laplace-Beltrami operator on triangular (boundary) and
tetrahedral (volumetric) meshes. This discriminative
characterization enables new ways to study the similarity
between brains; the focus can either be on a specific brain
structure of interest or on the overall brain similarity. We
highlight four applications for BrainPrint in this article:
(i) subject identification, (ii) age and sex prediction,
(iii) brain asymmetry analysis, and (iv) potential genetic
influences on brain morphology. The properties of BrainPrint
require the derivation of new algorithms to account for the
heterogeneous mix of brain structures with varying
discriminative power. We conduct experiments on three
datasets, including over 3000 MRI scans from the ADNI
database, 436 MRI scans from the OASIS dataset, and 236 MRI
scans from the VETSA twin study. All processing steps for
obtaining the compact representation are fully automated,
making this processing framework particularly attractive for
handling large datasets.},
keywords = {Age Factors / Aged / Brain: anatomy $\&$ histology / Brain
Mapping: methods / Female / Humans / Imaging,
Three-Dimensional: methods / Magnetic Resonance Imaging:
methods / Male / Sex Factors / Signal Processing,
Computer-Assisted / Twins: genetics / Brain asymmetry
(Other) / Brain shape (Other) / Brain similarity (Other) /
Large brain datasets (Other) / Morphological heritability
(Other) / Subject identification (Other)},
ddc = {610},
pnm = {899 - ohne Topic (POF4-899)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-899},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.01.032},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/280031},
}