SVT 5.2 References

The SVT software is jointly developed, implemented, tested and documented by Ivo D. Dinov, Michael Mega, Paul Thompson, De Witt L. Sumners, Roger Woods, Colin Holmes and Arthur Toga. It is a result from a collaboration between Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA Medical School, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1769. http://www.loni.ucla.edu/

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Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510. http://www.math.fsu.edu/

It includes various procedures for statistical analysis of stereotactic human brain functional data.

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Any publications resulting from the use of any of our packages should give credit to and reference the following papers:

Dinov, I.D., "Mathematical and Statistical techniques for Modeling and Analysis of Medical Data", Ph.D. dissertation, Mathematics, FSU, Spring, 1998. UMI Dissertation Services, 300 North Zeeb Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346. Tel: (800) 521-0600.

Dinov, I.D., Sumners, DW, "Transform Methods for Medical Image Analysis", Proc. of the ImageTech Conf., Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, CD ROM, April 1997.

Dinov, ID and Sumners, DWL. "Applications of Frequency Dependent Wavelet Shrinkage to Analyzing Quality of Image Registration", SIAM J. Appl. Math. (SIAP), 62(2), pp. 367-384. 2001. Abstract

Dinov, I.D., De Witt Sumners, Stephen Strother, David Rottenberg, Ulrik Kjems, "Construction of a 'Goodness of Warp' Measure", Proc. HBM'98 Meeting, Montreal, Canada, NeuroImage, Vol. 7, No. 4, p. 735, May, 1998.

Mega, M.S., Woods, R.P., Thompson, P.M., Dinov, I.D., Lee, L., Aron, J., Zoumalan, C.I., Cummings, J.L., Toga, A.W. (1998). Detecting Metabolic Patterns Associated with Minimal Cognitive Impairment using FDG-PET Analysis within a Probabilistic Brain Atlas based upon Continuum Mechanics, Annual Conference of the Society for Neuroscience, [in press].

Dinov, I.D., Mega, M.S., Thompson, P.M., Lee, L., Woods, R.P., Holmes, C., Sumners, D.W., Toga, A.W., "Analyzing Functional Brain Images in a Probabilistic Atlas: A Validation of Sub-Volume Thresholding," JCAT, 24(1):128-138, 2000.

Mega MS, Dinov ID, Lee L, Woods RP, Thompson PM, Holmes CJ, Back CL, Collins DL, Evans AC, Toga AW. "Dissecting Neural Networks Underlying the Retrieval Deficit from the Amnestic Memory Disorder Using 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT." The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 1997; 9: 704.

Mega MS, O'Connor SM, Lee L, Dinov ID, Cummings JL, Toga AW. "Orbital frontal and anterior cingulate pretreatment perfusion defects on 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT are associated with behavioral response to cholinesterase inhibitor therapy in Alzheimer's disease." Neurology 1998; 50: A250.

Lee L, Mega MS, Dinov ID, Cummings JL, Toga AW. "Dorsolateral frontal and frontal polar perfusion defects on 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT are associated with delusional behavior in Alzheimer's disease." Neurology 1998; 50: A362.

Mega MS, Woods RP, Thompson PM, Dinov ID, Lee L, Aron J, Zoumalan CI, Cummings JL, Toga AW. "Detecting metabolic patterns associated with minimal cognitive impairment using FDG-PET analysis within a probabilistic brain atlas based upon continuum mechanics." Soc for Neurosci Abs 1998; 24:1269.

Thompson PM, Mega MS, Woods RP, Blanton RE, Moussai J, Zoumalan CI, Dinov ID, Cummings JC, MacDonald D, Evans AC, Toga AW. "Detecting 3D patterns of Alzheimer's disease pathology with a probabilistic brain atlas based on continuum mechanics." Neurology 1999; 52:A570-571.

Mega MS, Felix J, Dinov ID, McPhereson SM, Cummings JL, Toga AW. "Anterior cingulate and frontal polar hypoperfusion is associated with declines in verbal fluency in older persons with mild cognitive impairment: A 99m Tc-HMPAO SPECT study." NeuroImage 1999; 9(6):S660.

Dinov ID, Mega MS, Thompson PM, Woods RP, Sumners DWL, Sowell EL, Toga AW. "Quantitative Comparison and Analysis of Brain Image Registration Using Frequency-Adaptive Wavelet Shrinkage.", in press, IEEE - TITB, 2001.

Mega MS, Dinov ID, Lee L, O'Connor SM, Masterman DM, Wilen B, Mishkin F, Toga AW, Cummings JL. "Orbital and Dorsolateral Frontal Perfusion Defect Associated with Behavioral Response to Cholinesterase Inhibitor Therapy in Alzheimer's Disease.", J. Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 12:2, 1-10, 2000.

Dinov, ID and Sumners, DWL. "Applications of Frequency Dependent Wavelet Shrinkage to Analyzing Quality of Image Registration", to appear in SIAM J. Appl. Math. (SIAP), 2001.