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High-resolution In Vivo manual segmentation protocol for human hippocampal subfields using 3T magnetic resonance imaging

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posted on 2024-11-15, 12:41 authored by Julie Winterburn, Jens C Pruessner, Chavez Sofia, Mark SchiraMark Schira, Nancy J Lobaugh, Aristotle N Voineskos, M Mallar Chakravarty
The human hippocampus has been broadly studied in the context of memory and normal brain function and its role in different neuropsychiatric disorders has been heavily studied. While many imaging studies treat the hippocampus as a single unitary neuroanatomical structure, it is, in fact, composed of several subfields that have a complex three-dimensional geometry. As such, it is known that these subfields perform specialized functions and are differentially affected through the course of different disease states. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging can be used as a powerful tool to interrogate the morphology of the hippocampus and its subfields. Many groups use advanced imaging software and hardware (>3T) to image the subfields; however this type of technology may not be readily available in most research and clinical imaging centers. To address this need, this manuscript provides a detailed step-by-step protocol for segmenting the full anterior-posterior length of the hippocampus and its subfields: cornu ammonis (CA) 1, CA2/CA3, CA4/dentate gyrus (DG), strata radiatum/lacunosum/moleculare (SR/SL/SM), and subiculum. This protocol has been applied to five subjects (3F, 2M; age 29-57, avg. 37). Protocol reliability is assessed by resegmenting either the right or left hippocampus of each subject and computing the overlap using the Dice's kappa metric. Mean Dice's kappa (range) across the five subjects are: whole hippocampus, 0.91 (0.90-0.92); CA1, 0.78 (0.77-0.79); CA2/CA3, 0.64 (0.56-0.73); CA4/dentate gyrus, 0.83 (0.81-0.85); strata radiatum/lacunosum/moleculare, 0.71 (0.68-0.73); and subiculum 0.75 (0.72-0.78). The segmentation protocol presented here provides other laboratories with a reliable method to study the hippocampus and hippocampal subfields in vivo using commonly available MR tools.

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Winterburn, J., Pruessner, J. C., Sofia, C., Schira, M. M., Lobaugh, N. J., Voineskos, A. N. & Chakravarty, M. M. (2015). High-resolution In Vivo manual segmentation protocol for human hippocampal subfields using 3T magnetic resonance imaging. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2015 (105), e51861-1-e51861-12.

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Journal of Visualized Experiments

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2015

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105

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English

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104421

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