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Bayesian covariate selection in mixed-effects models for longitudinal shape analysis
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Bayesian covariate selection in mixed-effects models for longitudinal shape analysis

Prasanna Muralidharan, James Fishbaugh, Eun Young Kim, Hans J Johnson, Jane S Paulsen, Guido Gerig and P. Thomas Fletcher
2016 IEEE 13th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Vol.2016-, pp.656-659
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 13 (2016)
04/2016
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2016.7493352
PMCID: PMC5225990
PMID: 28090246
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/5225990View
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Abstract

The goal of longitudinal shape analysis is to understand how anatomical shape changes over time, in response to biological processes, including growth, aging, or disease. In many imaging studies, it is also critical to understand how these shape changes are affected by other factors, such as sex, disease diagnosis, IQ, etc. Current approaches to longitudinal shape analysis have focused on modeling age-related shape changes, but have not included the ability to handle covariates. In this paper, we present a novel Bayesian mixed-effects shape model that incorporates simultaneous relationships between longitudinal shape data and multiple predictors or covariates to the model. Moreover, we place an Automatic Relevance Determination (ARD) prior on the parameters, that lets us automatically select which covariates are most relevant to the model based on observed data. We evaluate our proposed model and inference procedure on a longitudinal study of Huntington's disease from PREDICT-HD. We first show the utility of the ARD prior for model selection in a univariate modeling of striatal volume, and next we apply the full high-dimensional longitudinal shape model to putamen shapes.
Analytical models Bayes methods Bayesian analysis Computational modeling Data models Diseases Huntington's disease Longitudinal shape analysis model selection Shape Solid modeling

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