Measurement of Brain Structures with Artificial Neural Networks: Two- and Three-dimensional Applications1
Vincent A. Magnotta, PhD,
Dan Heckel, BS,
Nancy C. Andreasen, MD, PhD,
Ted Cizadlo, BS,
Patricia Westmoreland Corson, MD,
James C. Ehrhardt, PhD and
William T. C. Yuh, MD
1 Department of Radiology, Mental Health Clinical Research Center, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 2911 JPP, 200 Hawkins Dr, Iowa City, IA 52242. Received July 10, 1998; revision requested August 13; revision received September 21; accepted November 13. Supported in part by National Institutes of Mental Health grants MH31593, MH40856, and MHCRC43271 and Research Scientist award MH00625, and an Established Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression. Address reprint requests to V.A.M.

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Figure 1. Diagram of the ANN used for the corpus callosum. The figure shows connections from the input nodes to one of the hidden layer nodes and from the hidden layer node to the output node.
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Figure 2. Graph depicts mean squared error of the ANN during training. At first, there is a rapid decline in the mean squared error because initially the weights are assigned randomly. After training, the mean squared error approaches an asymptote.
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Figure 3a. Corpus callosum. (ad) MR images in the testing set were obtained in four subjects and depict ROIs (red line) generated by the ANN.
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Figure 3b. Corpus callosum. (ad) MR images in the testing set were obtained in four subjects and depict ROIs (red line) generated by the ANN.
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Figure 3c. Corpus callosum. (ad) MR images in the testing set were obtained in four subjects and depict ROIs (red line) generated by the ANN.
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Figure 3d. Corpus callosum. (ad) MR images in the testing set were obtained in four subjects and depict ROIs (red line) generated by the ANN.
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Figure 4a. Whole brain. (ad) MR images in the testing set were obtained in four subjects and depict ROIs (red line) generated by the ANN.
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Figure 4b. Whole brain. (ad) MR images in the testing set were obtained in four subjects and depict ROIs (red line) generated by the ANN.
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Figure 4c. Whole brain. (ad) MR images in the testing set were obtained in four subjects and depict ROIs (red line) generated by the ANN.
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Figure 4d. Whole brain. (ad) MR images in the testing set were obtained in four subjects and depict ROIs (red line) generated by the ANN.
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Figure 5a. Caudate. (ad) MR images in the testing set were obtained in four subjects and depict ROIs (red [right] and yellow [left] lines) generated by the ANN.
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Figure 5b. Caudate. (ad) MR images in the testing set were obtained in four subjects and depict ROIs (red [right] and yellow [left] lines) generated by the ANN.
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Figure 5c. Caudate. (ad) MR images in the testing set were obtained in four subjects and depict ROIs (red [right] and yellow [left] lines) generated by the ANN.
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Figure 5d. Caudate. (ad) MR images in the testing set were obtained in four subjects and depict ROIs (red [right] and yellow [left] lines) generated by the ANN.
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Figure 6a. Putamen. (ad) MR images in the testing set were obtained in four subjects and depict ROIs (red [right] and yellow [left] lines) generated by the ANN.
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Figure 6b. Putamen. (ad) MR images in the testing set were obtained in four subjects and depict ROIs (red [right] and yellow [left] lines) generated by the ANN.
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Figure 6c. Putamen. (ad) MR images in the testing set were obtained in four subjects and depict ROIs (red [right] and yellow [left] lines) generated by the ANN.
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Figure 6d. Putamen. (ad) MR images in the testing set were obtained in four subjects and depict ROIs (red [right] and yellow [left] lines) generated by the ANN.
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Figure 7a. Caudate (right, green; left, blue). (a, b) The 3D renderings identified by the ANN for two subjects. (a) Side view of the caudate nuclei in one subject and (b) top view in the other.
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Figure 7b. Caudate (right, green; left, blue). (a, b) The 3D renderings identified by the ANN for two subjects. (a) Side view of the caudate nuclei in one subject and (b) top view in the other.
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