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Whole-Brain Morphometric Study of Schizophrenia Revealing a Spatially Complex Set of Focal Abnormalities

Whole-Brain Morphometric Study of Schizophrenia Revealing a Spatially Complex Set of Focal... ContextNeuroanatomic abnormalities in schizophrenia may underlie behavioral manifestations. Characterization of such abnormalities is required for interpreting functional data. Frontotemporal abnormalities have been documented by using predetermined region-of-interest approaches, but deformation-based morphometry permits examination of the entire brain.ObjectivesTo perform whole-brain analyses of structural differences between patients with schizophrenia and controls, to examine sex and medication effects, and to apply a high-dimensional nonlinear pattern classification technique to quantify the degree of separation between patients and controls, thereby testing the potential of this new technique as an aid to diagnostic procedures.DesignWhole-brain morphologic analysis using high-dimensional shape transformations.SettingSchizophrenia Research Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.ParticipantsNeuroleptic-naïve and previously treated patients with DSM-IVschizophrenia (n = 69) and sociodemographically matched controls (n = 79).Main Outcome MeasuresGray matter, white matter, and ventricular cerebrospinal fluid volumes in the brain.ResultsMagnetic resonance images showed reduced gray matter and increased ventricular cerebrospinal fluid volumes in patients with schizophrenia in the whole brain and in specific foci: the hippocampus and adjacent white matter, the cingulate and orbitofrontal cortex, the frontotemporal and parietotemporal areas, and the occipital areas near the lingual gyrus. The classifier had a mean classification accuracy of 81.1% for men and women combined (82% for women and 85% for men, when each group was treated separately), determined via cross-validation.ConclusionsThis study confirms previous findings of reduced frontotemporal volumes and suggests new hypotheses, especially involving occipital association and speech production areas. It also suggests finer localization of volume reduction in the hippocampus and other limbic structures and in the frontal lobe. Pattern classification showed high sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of schizophrenia, suggesting the potential utility of magnetic resonance imaging as a diagnostic aid.Understanding neural substrates of schizophrenia requires determination of the extent and distribution of abnormalities in brain anatomy. Neuroanatomic studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have documented reductions in parenchymal volume that appeared to be specific to gray matter (GM) accompanied by proportionate increases in ventricular cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) volume.Quantitation of regional abnormalities is more demanding because reliable expert-based delineation is labor intensive and is limited to a priori regions of interest (ROIs). Because symptoms and neurocognitive deficits of schizophrenia implicate frontotemporal dysfunction, most expert-guided ROI studies have focused on these areas, although subcortical regions, including the hippocampus and basal ganglia, have also been examined.Automated methods for regional parcellation and voxel-based morphometry can efficiently yield information on the entire brain, thereby permitting the validation of current findings and the discovery of regions not previously implicated.Previous voxel-based morphometry studieshave generally supported the ROI-guided findings in demonstrating tissue reduction in frontotemporal regions and revealing abnormalities in the volume or shape of specific regions, such as the thalamusand the hippocampus.More regionally specific methods that use high-dimensional transformationscan be coupled with pattern classification methods that use shape measurements to distinguish patients with schizophrenia from controls.An important step in validating automated techniques is their comparison with the ROI approach, and several studiesreported similar findings within samples.The main challenge for automated processing lies in the large variability among individuals, particularly in sulci and gyri. Voxel deformation- or tensor-based morphometric approaches to computational anatomy perform a spatial transformation that places images into a stereotaxic space. This is followed by a voxel-wise statistical analysis of the spatial distribution of tissue compartments,the properties of the spatial transformation,or combined measurements of the residual image and the spatial transformation.Because these methods examine each voxel separately, not all voxels jointly, they constitute “mass univariate” and not multivariate approaches. This can result in biased interpretations of the data and in overlooking interactions among different brain regions.Such interrelations can help separate 2 or more populations and may predict whether an individual is at risk for a brain disorder.The goal of the present study is to apply automated image analysis based on deformation morphometry to a sample of well-characterized patients with schizophrenia and matched controls. The morphometric protocol has been integrated and validated on an aging population.After automated segmentation, mass-preserving shape transformations warp individual images into a template, and the total amount of tissue in any region is preserved for subsequent analysis.A classifier is then applied by forming a morphologic signature of the individual brain via the high-dimensional shape transformation.Previous studies on this sample used the ROI approach and identified globally reduced GM and increased ventricular CSF volumes in patients.Regional effects showed reduced frontal,temporolimbic,and thalamicvolumes and increased basal ganglia volumes in previously treated compared with neuroleptic-naïve patients.Sex differences were observed. Women with schizophrenia showed increased amygdala volume and reduced orbitofrontal volume compared with healthy women, whereas men with schizophrenia had reduced amygdala volume and normal orbitofrontal volume relative to healthy men.By applying the present method to the same sample we can evaluate its sensitivity to effects established using the expert-guided ROIs. Because the sample includes never-treated and previously treated patients, we can assess the effects of medication, which will help gauge the confidence we can place in new potential findings. We also sought to determine whether a feature classifier based on the morphometric parameters could reliably separate participants with schizophrenia from healthy people.METHODSPARTICIPANTSSixty-nine patients (46 men and 23 women) with schizophrenia and 79 controls (41 men and 38 women) participated in the study. All the participants were right-handed, and all the women were premenopausal. The mean ± SD values of sociodemographic variables did not differ in patients with schizophrenia vs controls: age, 29.9 ± 8.4 years vs 28.2 ± 7.5 years (t146 = 1.34; P = .18), and parental education, 13.9 ± 3.8 years vs 14.5 ± 3.5 years (t146 = 1.05; P = .30). As expected, patients with schizophrenia attained lower mean ± SD education levels than controls (13.5 ± 2.6 vs 15.8 ± 2.2 years; t149 = 6.01; P < .001). Participants were recruited and assessed at the Schizophrenia Research Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, and they underwent medical, neurologic, and psychiatric evaluations to exclude for a history of illness that affects brain function, including substance abuse, hypertension, metabolic disorders, neurologic disorders, and head trauma with loss of consciousness.For patients, the comprehensive intake evaluation included a structured diagnostic interviewand a review of medical records and information available from family and care providers that contributed to a consensus diagnosis of schizophrenia.The clinical examination included an assessment of symptoms and function, and it was performed by trained and reliable (interclass correlation coefficient >0.90) investigators.Patients had mild-to-moderate symptoms at the time of study as evaluated using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale(mean ± SD score, 36.7 ± 10.8), the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms(1.7 ± 1.1), and the Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms(1.5 ± 0.9). Onset of illness was defined as the emergence of symptoms in the context of functional decline. Level of functioning was assessed using the Premorbid Adjustment Scaleand the Quality of Life Scale.Mean ± SD duration of illness, defined as age at study entry minus age at symptom onset, was 5.6 ± 6.3 years. At study entry, 32 patients were first-episode neuroleptic naïve and 37 were treated with antipsychotic medications. The 2 groups did not differ in education (13.5 ± 2.9 years vs 13.7 ± 2.4 years; t67 = 0.37; P = .71), parental education (13.8 ± 3.6 years vs 14.4 ± 3.8 years; t67 = 0.76; P = .45), Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale score (38.5 ± 10.7 vs 35.9 ± 10.7; t67 = 1.34; P = .18), Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptomsscore (1.8 ± 1.1 vs 1.6 ± 1.1; t67 = 1.77; P = .08), Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptomsscore (1.5 ± 0.8 vs 1.6 ± 1.0; t67 = 0.94; P = .35), Quality of Life Scale score (3.2 ± 1.1 vs 2.9 ± 1.3; t67 = 1.01; P = .38), or Premorbid Adjustment Scale score (2.0 ± 1.1 vs 1.9 ± 1.1; t67 = 0.35; P = .73), but, as expected, first-episode patients were younger (26.3 ± 6.8 years vs 30.8 ± 6.7 years; t67 = 2.60; P = .009) and had a shorter duration of illness (2.0 ± 3.2 years vs 8.6 ± 6.3 years; t67 = 5.24; P < .001). Men with schizophrenia did not differ from women with schizophrenia on any of these measures: education (13.5 ± 2.8 years vs 13.8 ± 2.5 years; t67 = 0.33; P = .75), parental education (14.3 ± 3.8 years vs 13.5 ± 3.5 years; t67 = 0.58; P = .56), Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale score (38.4 ± 10.8 vs 34.4 ± 10.2; t67 = 0.93; P = .34), Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptomsscore (1.9 ± 1.1 vs 1.3 ± 0.8; t67 = 1.01; P = .32), Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptomsscore (1.6 ± 0.9 vs 1.3 ± 1.0; t67 = 0.49; P = .62), Quality of Life Scale score (2.9 ± 1.2 vs 3.4 ± 1.2; t67 = 1.36; P = .18), Premorbid Adjustment Scale score (2.0 ± 1.1 vs 1.7 ± 1.0; t67 = 1.06; P = .29), age (27.7 ± 7.2 years vs 30.8 ± 6.2 years; t67 = 1.60; P = .11), and duration of illness (5.3 ± 6.1 years vs 4.6 ± 5.5 years; t67 = 0.42; P = .67).Controls underwent the Structured Clinical Interview forDSM-IV Axis I Disorders, Non-Patient Edition,and reported no first-degree relatives with schizophrenia or affective illness. The sample overlaps with samples reported in earlier publications.The current data set includes all patients with schizophrenia and demographically matched controls who have been studied using the same scanner with the same protocol and who had suitable quality of scan for automated analysis of the entire supertentorial brain. Some studies using spoiled gradient recalled acquisition in the steady state (GRASS) MRI included larger samples because they involved regions unaffected by “ghosting” artifacts that precluded whole-brain analysis. The study was approved by the University of Pennsylvania institutional review board and was performed after written informed consent was obtained.MRI ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIST1-weighted images were obtained using a 1.5-T scanner (1.5T Signa; General Electric Medical Systems, Milwaukee, Wis) using spoiled GRASS pulse sequence (flip angle, 35°; repetition time, 35 milliseconds; echo time, 6 milliseconds; field of view, 24 cm; and NEX 1, 1-mm section thickness and no intersection gaps). In-plane resolution was 0.9375 × 0.9375 mm. No parenchymal lesions or skull abnormalities were evident neuroradiologically.Images were analyzed via a deformation-based morphometric analysis protocol as previously detailed,which included skull stripping; tissue classification into GM, white matter (WM), and ventricular CSF; and spatial normalization to a standardized stereotactic space, a step necessary for group analysis, using a high-dimensional elastic spatial normalization transformation.Three tissue density (RAVENS[Regional Analysis of Volumes Examined in Normalized Space]) maps were generated, 1 for each tissue type, reflecting the regional amount of the respective tissues in the vicinity of each voxel.STATISTICAL ANALYSISSpatially normalized RAVENS maps of patients and controls and of subgroups (men and women and neuroleptic-naïve and treated patients) were compared statistically using voxel-wise ttests and voxel-wise effect sizes after spatial smoothing with a Gaussian filter of full-width half-maximum equal to 8 mm. Correction for multiple comparisons was performed using the methods embedded in the statistical parametric mapping software.Only the clusters that exceeded a significance threshold of P < .05 after correction for multiple comparisons are reported.MRI-BASED DIAGNOSIS VIA PATTERN CLASSIFICATIONIn addition to RAVENS maps, we applied a pattern classification method to examine whether the morphologic profiles measured using the RAVENS density maps can be used to separate patients with schizophrenia from controls. This approach considers all brain voxels jointly in a high-dimensional space rather than examining each brain region individually.Although in each brain region there could be considerable overlap between control and schizophrenia, thereby leading to poor diagnostic accuracy, a nonlinear multivariate analysis of all brain regions simultaneously could separate the 2 groups with higher classification sensitivity. We used the jackknife (leave-1-out) method, that is, we trained the classifier on all but 1 patient and tested it on the (independent) left out sample for robust estimation of performance.RESULTSTOTAL BRAIN TISSUE VOLUMESThe mean ± SD global volumes for GM, WM, and ventricular CSF are given in Table 1. Patients with schizophrenia showed significantly lower GM and higher ventricular CSF volumes, whereas the WM total volume difference was not significant between the 2 groups. For patients, GM, WM, and ventricular CSF volumes did not correlate with duration of illness (r = −0.29, −0.17, and 0.12), mean Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptomsscores (r = 0.20, 0.01, and −0.24), or mean Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptomsscores (r = 0.05, −0.07, and −0.26).Table 1. Global Volumetric Measurements for Gray Matter, White Matter, and Ventricular CSF*Whole SampleMenWomenControlsSCZFEPTPValue†PValue‡PValue§PValue&par;ControlsSCZPValueControlsSCZPValueGM553 ± 58519 ± 56521 ± 57517 ± 56<.001.005<.001.36569 ± 60541 ± 42.006537 ± 53475 ± 57<.001WM447 ± 59439 ± 56435 ± 44443 ± 65.20.15.35.29469 ± 59456 ± 47.11423 ± 49406 ± 58.12CSF16 ± 720 ± 819 ± 820 ± 7<.001.01<.001.2317 ± 719 ± 7.0514 ± 620 ± 8.5.001 Abbreviations: CSF, ventricular cerebrospinal fluid; FE, first episode; GM, gray matter; PT, previously treated; SCZ, patients with schizophrenia; WM, white matter. *Data are given as mean ± SD in cubic centimeters. †Controls vs SCZ. ‡Controls vs FE. ‡Controls vs PT.  &par;FE vs PT.LOCAL VOLUMETRIC MEASUREMENTSVoxel-based statistical analysis of the RAVENS maps revealed a spatially complex pattern of volumetric differences between groups. The volume reduction in patients was not diffuse, with several foci of abnormality evident. The abnormalities were primarily in prefrontal and temporal regions, but other areas also showed significant differences. Table 2summarizes the regions in which the peaks of the local clusters were located and their associated Pvalues after correction for multiple comparisons. Unlike GM, WM did not show any significant group difference. The only peaks that approached significance were in the WM adjacent to the right hippocampus (P = .02) and the left lingual gyrus (P = .046). Both regions also showed a significant difference in GM volume.Table 2. Summary of the Results Obtained by Voxel-Wise Statistical Analysis of the RAVENS Maps of Controls and Patients With SchizophreniaStructurePValue*Frontal gyri Superior frontal gyrus right.002 Inferior frontal gyrus left and right.004 Lateral fronto-orbital gyrus left.001Temporal gyri Superior temporal gyrus left.001 Middle temporal gyrus left.002 Inferior temporal gyrus left.002 Insula left.001 Lateral occipitotemporal gyrus right.001Parietal gyri Angular gyrus left and right.002 (left)/.001 (right) Supramarginal gyrus left.001Occipital gyri Lingual gyrus left.001 Middle occipital gyrus right.001Limbic Hippocampal formation left and right.003 (left)/.001 (right) Cingulate region left and right.001White matter Temporal lobe right (close to   hippocampus right).02 Vicinity of lingual gyrus left.046 *The Pvalues of the tstatistic after statistical parametric mapping correction for multiple comparisons are shown (only regions with significance at P < .05, after correction).Figure 1depicts several representative images with overlays of color-coded clusters of significant group differences and the underlying template used for spatial normalization. Color-coding is based on the values of the tstatistic. Only voxels with significant group differences are shown overlaid on the template.Figure 1.Regions with reduced gray matter (GM) or white matter (WM) volume. A, Hippocampal GM. B, Hippocampal WM. C, Cingulate gyrus GM. D, Orbitofrontal gyrus GM. E, Insula GM. F, Lingual gyrus/Brodmann areas 18 and 19 GM. G, Lingual gyrus/Brodmann areas 18 and 19 WM. Color-coding is according to the scale in A, except for B and G. Images are displayed in neurologic convention (left hemisphere on viewer’s left).Examination of effect sizes for the entire sample (Figure 2) shows local maxima in regions of statistical significance and also demonstrates the expansion in ventricular CSF (Figure 2H). Noticeable is the enlargement of the anterior compared with the posterior ventricles. The statistical parametric mapping global analysis did not show any significant effects of the moderator variables because there were no sex × region or diagnosis × sex × region interactions, and neither were there significant interactions when neuroleptic-naïve and previously treated patients were contrasted. Thus, overall volume differences between patients and controls are not entirely moderated by these factors. However, evaluation of the effect sizes in patients separated by sex (Figure 3) and medication (Figure 4) suggested that such factors are worthy of further examination with larger samples. Specifically, women with schizophrenia displayed higher effect size magnitudes compared with men. The statistical significance of this difference seems to have been attenuated by the smaller sample size of female patients. The spatial pattern of the group differences was similar between men and women. However, reduced orbital volume seemed more pronounced and extended in women, whereas reduced amygdala volume was more pronounced in men.Figure 2.Effect size maps for the entire sample. A, Right hippocampal white matter (WM). B, Right hippocampal gray matter (GM). C, Left insula GM. D, Cingulate gyrus GM. E, Left lingual gyrus GM. F, Left orbitofrontal gyrus. G, Left amygdala and orbitofrontal GM. H, Ventricular cerebrospinal fluid. The color bar in A applies to all maps, except for the one in H. Images are displayed in neurologic convention.Figure 3.Effect size maps for patients with schizophrenia vs controls. Effect size maps for women (A) and men (B) displayed in neurologic convention. C, Effect size maps for men and women combined projected on the outer cortical surface. D, Mean of the 148 images after they were spatially normalized via elastic warping to the template.Figure 4.Effect size maps for control vs patient group difference calculated separately for neuroleptic-naïve patients (A) and treated patients (B). Treated patients showed a pronounced increase in basal ganglia volumes (blue). Images are displayed in neurologic convention.Comparing neuroleptic-naïve with previously treated patients likewise showed a similar pattern in both groups (Figure 4). However, the basal ganglia had negative signs, indicating expansion in patients relative to controls, and this effect was more pronounced in treated than in untreated patients. The effect sizes of the treated patients were similar albeit of higher magnitude.To ensure that our accuracy was not adversely affected by registration errors, we formed the average of all 148 spatially normalized images after they were warped to the template. This method is used for visually evaluating the accuracy of the template warping method because residual variability caused by error in the warping mechanism produces fuzziness of the resultant average images. The clarity of the mean in Figure 3D reflects the high accuracy of the underlying template warping procedure and, therefore, of our morphologic measurements.In addition to the cross-sectional views of the effect sizes in Figure 2and Figure 3, we also formed 3-dimensional renditions of the effect sizes of the combined group, as shown in Figure 3C, which projects the average effect size maps of Figure 2within a neighborhood around the outer cortical surface of the template onto this surface. This map is informative because it summarizes the spatial pattern of volumetric findings and highlights the vulnerability of inferior temporal, occipitotemporal, and orbitofrontal regions. However, it is only complementary to Figure 2because it shows only relatively superficial findings (within 8 mm of the outer cortex). Moreover, it significantly reduces the peak effect sizes by averaging within a spherical neighborhood with a radius of 8 mm.MRI-BASED PATIENT CLASSIFICATION ACCURACYThe nonlinear classification method achieved 100% fitting accuracy when applied on the training set. We obtained an estimate of how well the classifier would generalize to new patients by using the jackknife technique. The classification accuracy was 81.1% (87.3% specificity and 73.9% sensitivity) for the classifier combining men and women. Accuracy for the individual male and female classifiers was 85.0% (78.0% specificity and 91.0% sensitivity) and 82.0% (86.9% specificity and 73.9% sensitivity), respectively. Sensitivity reflects the probability of disease detection, and specificity reflects the probability of correct classification of controls.To test the statistical significance of the classification result, we performed random permutation tests. In particular, we performed 8 random assignments of all participants to patient or control categories, then performed the leave-1-out procedure. This resulted in a total of 8×148 = 1184 classifiers and testing images. The cumulative distribution of the classification accuracy showed that most trials yielded performance similar to that of a coin toss, as would be expected. The mean ± SD of the classification accuracy of these random assignment experiments was 49.0% ± 6.5% (which yielded a significance value of the classification results [P < .001]), which is extremely low and bolsters our confidence in the results. Finally, we performed an receiver operating characteristic curve analysis (the varying parameter was the decision threshold of the classifier) for each of the 3 classifiers (Figure 5).Figure 5.Receiver operating characteristic curves for the 3 classifiers: all participants, men only, and women only.COMMENTThe present study applied an automated and accurate protocol for whole-brain and regional morphometric analysis using measured deformation patterns for automated diagnostic classification. Although measures for whole-brain volumes were not directly comparable with earlier studies that used dual-echo images for segmentation,the differences between patients and controls are of comparable magnitude. For example, whole-brain GM in the present study showed an approximately 7% reduction in schizophrenia compared with approximately 6% in the larger sample using dual-echo images. White matter volume did not show significant differences in either study, whereas ventricular CSF volume showed an increase of approximately 20% in both studies and was almost double in women compared with men with schizophrenia. These changes are also consistent with those reported in the meta-analysis by Wright et al,albeit on the high end of the 90% confidence interval. Because meta-analyses necessarily include studies with different rigor of diagnostic procedures, the larger effect size we observe could be a result of careful screening of patients and controls. Another possible discrepancy with earlier studies on whole-brain changes is our observation that women show larger effect sizes. Although this observation is consistent with the earlier studyusing dual-echo MRI, it is inconsistent with another studythat reported less ventricular increase in women. This issue merits further scrutiny in future studies.The regional effects, likewise, were consistent with the ROI-based analysis. Thus, the lower volume in superior and inferior temporal gyri and in the hippocampus was evident in the ROI analysis.Furthermore, the amygdala did not show reduced volume for the total sample with either method. The frontal lobe effects are more difficult to compare because the ROIs we used were major subdivisions (lateral, medial, dorsal, and orbital).However, the location of the significant reduction in the superior and inferior frontal regions in the present study is in the dorsal and medial regions that showed significant reduction in the ROI study. Overall, for the frontotemporal regions, the present analysis yielded findings consistent with our previous studies and with the literature on ROI-based approaches.Other voxel-based studies have reported reduced cortical volume in schizophrenia in the ventral and medial prefrontal regions; the orbitofrontal, superotemporal, and occipitotemporal regions; the right medial frontal lobe; the left midtemporal gyrus; and the left superior temporal gyrus.All the temporal regions that showed clusters of reduced volume had the peak reduction on the left except for the lateral occipitotemporal gyrus, with a right hemispheric peak, and the hippocampus, with bilateral volume reduction. This is consistent with other findings that support the hypothesis of left temporal lobe dysfunction in schizophrenia.Regarding subcortical regions, the automated approach did not detect the reduced thalamic volume previously reported using ROI methodsand automated methods.Measurements of subcortical structures may require a different tissue classification technique because subcortical structures, especially the thalamus, have MRI signal characteristics that place them between GM and WM. Incorporation of fuzzy classification methods may help address this problem. Other voxel-based studieshave observed reduced thalamic volume.Examining potential moderators yielded results that were likewise consistent with findings using the ROI approach. Larger effect sizes for women were observed in frontaland temporalcomparisons, and we also reported reduced orbitofrontal volume relative to amygdala volume in women compared with men with schizophrenia.The contrast between neuroleptic-naïve and previously treated patients revealed the increased volume of basal ganglia associated with treatment, as previously reported using the ROI approach.In addition to generally supporting earlier findings, our voxel-based analysis showed that in the affected structures, abnormalities were quite focal. We speculate that the clusters seem associated with 3 networks: the temporolimbic and fronto-orbital network, involved in regulating emotion; the frontotemporal network for episodic memory; and the prefrontal-cingulate network, which regulates rule-controlled action.All these networks are implicated in schizophrenia.The method permitted more precise pinpointing of the abnormalities. For example, the reduced hippocampal volume was localized in the middle to posterior hippocampus and medially (Figure 1A). Moreover, reduced volume of the adjacent WM of the parahippocampal gyrus (particularly around the subiculum) was measured at exactly the same level along the anteroposterior direction (Figure 1B). In conjunction with the focal volumetric reduction of the cingulate genu, this might imply disruption of neuronal bodies and respective axons in parts of the medial limbic system, implicated in emotion-processing deficits of schizophrenia.A set of foci of volumetric decrease also involved the medial orbitofrontal and adjacent cingulate cortex (Figure 1C) and the dorsomedial thalamus. These areas complement the limbic system in modulating affective and motivational aspects of behavior.A distinct set of clusters of volume reduction was evident in the frontotemporal cortex. There was focal reduction in the middle superior aspect of the superotemporal gyrus (Figure 1E) and prominent clusters in the areas of Broca and Wernicke. For the Wernicke area, there was an asymmetry in the abnormality pattern, with only the left hemisphere displaying widespread and significant volumetric differences. These regions, mediating language and auditory processing, have been studied extensively, and abnormalities have been related to electrophysiologic and neurocognitive deficits.Finally, the inferior frontal gyrus displayed bilateral decrease in patients with schizophrenia, although the extent was relatively small (Figure 1E). Some studiesreported dorsolateral frontal volume reduction. However, previous studies partitioned the frontal lobe into relatively larger structures, which limits the spatial localization of the measured effects. Although abnormalities in left hemispheric parietal receptive language areas have been reported,supporting the hypothesis of left hemispheric dysfunction in schizophrenia, speech production regions have received less attention, but we found them to be equally affected.Thus, it seems that the automated method for segmentation and parcellation is about as sensitive as the ROI approach to neuroanatomic changes associated with schizophrenia and effects of moderators. Therefore, examination of new regions of neuroanatomic differences revealed by this method has merit. A notable new area of abnormality is in the inferior occipital region, where substantial volume reduction was observed, with a broad spatial extent (Figure 1F and G). This cluster seems to be primarily located in the lingual gyrus, although it is unclear exactly which occipital area is affected. We place the cluster in Brodmann areas 18 and 19, regions involved in visual association and orientation.Although the visual system has been considered to be generally intact in schizophrenia, our anatomical findings suggest further investigation. Deficits in the visual-processing cascade may underlie downstream dysfunction in more complex operations that require visual input.Differences between patients and controls were observed almost exclusively in GM and ventricles. The only WM regions in which group differences reached marginal significance were close to the right hippocampus and the left occipital area, where GM volume was also reduced. Although we did not find that women have a significantly larger corpus callosum, as has been reported in earlier studies,there was a trend for women to have higher volume in the splenium of the callosum, which did not survive correction for multiple comparisons. Therefore, our negative results should not be considered as contradicting findings from studies that have examined the corpus callosum in detail.Our classification results suggest that complex spatial patterns of morphologic characteristics can ultimately be used as an image-based diagnostic aid. If these results are replicated on an independent sample, with sensitivity and specificity relative to other disorders, they can support the utility of MRI as an aid in the diagnosis of schizophrenia. There are 2 reasons for our confidence that the classification accuracy estimates we report will generalize. First, we used cross-validation, the jackknife (leave-1-out) procedure, thereby testing the classifier on images that were never seen before. The jackknife is well-establishedas a means for obtaining relatively unbiased estimates of future performance. Second, we split the sample into men and women and obtained similar classification performance. We also noted a sex difference in discriminability parameters. The classifier had higher sensitivity than specificity for diagnosing schizophrenia in men and higher specificity than sensitivity for diagnosing schizophrenia in women. Replication of these findings in larger samples is required. We are also examining methods for improved classification accuracy, including selection of wavelet or other basis functions and more effective feature selection schemes. The potential benefits of such diagnostic tools are enhanced by our finding that the abnormalities are present in first-episode, neuroleptic-naïve patients. It seems important to examine whether these morphologic characteristics of schizophrenia occur early in life and relate to disease vulnerability, onset, and course. Such knowledge can be gained from genetic and longitudinal paradigms.Our method has several limitations. Because of the need to control for multiple comparisons, large samples are necessary to establish regional group differences. Thus, although our sample size was sufficient to document differences between patients and controls, it is insufficiently powered to establish, for example, sex differences within diagnostic groups. The different findings for GM and WM might reflect an underlying difference in the way neuronal bodies and axonal connections are affected by the disease. However, it might also be due to the limitations of standard T1-weighted MRI to resolve WM structures. Future studies using diffusion tensor imaging will be able to resolve WM anatomy in greater detail. Another limitation of our method is its focus on cortical structures. Subcortical measurements would require a different tissue classification technique because subcortical structures, especially the thalamus, have MRI signal characteristics that place them between GM and WM. Because our morphologic analysis was based on a hard segmentation method, it is bound to be limited when examining subcortical structures. Incorporation of fuzzy classification methodsmight, to some extent, alleviate this problem. All voxel-based morphometric analysis methods are susceptible to the effects of the spatial normalization transformation that registers images of different individuals. Regions in which this spatial transformation has relatively lower accuracy will tend to display artificially higher variability, which will adversely affect statistical significance. For example, registration and measurement of highly variable prefrontal cortical regions is less accurate than measurement of less variable structures, such as the precentral gyrus. We demonstrated that the accuracy of our study was not adversely affected by registration errors, as indicated by the clarity of the average image, which was even clearer than the template itself. This is only possible when the spatially normalized images are accurately co-registered. A future direction involves quantifying variability in every region, after spatial normalization. Because such residual variability is directly related to our ability to measure the respective structure, it will further assist in the interpretation of results.The present methods for automated analysis of morphometric data largely support findings from earlier studies using expert-guided ROIs or automated procedures. In addition to finer localization of anatomical abnormalities in previously implicated regions, the main new finding we report is reduced volume in visual association areas that include the lingual gyrus. 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Whole-Brain Morphometric Study of Schizophrenia Revealing a Spatially Complex Set of Focal Abnormalities

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ContextNeuroanatomic abnormalities in schizophrenia may underlie behavioral manifestations. Characterization of such abnormalities is required for interpreting functional data. Frontotemporal abnormalities have been documented by using predetermined region-of-interest approaches, but deformation-based morphometry permits examination of the entire brain.ObjectivesTo perform whole-brain analyses of structural differences between patients with schizophrenia and controls, to examine sex and medication effects, and to apply a high-dimensional nonlinear pattern classification technique to quantify the degree of separation between patients and controls, thereby testing the potential of this new technique as an aid to diagnostic procedures.DesignWhole-brain morphologic analysis using high-dimensional shape transformations.SettingSchizophrenia Research Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.ParticipantsNeuroleptic-naïve and previously treated patients with DSM-IVschizophrenia (n = 69) and sociodemographically matched controls (n = 79).Main Outcome MeasuresGray matter, white matter, and ventricular cerebrospinal fluid volumes in the brain.ResultsMagnetic resonance images showed reduced gray matter and increased ventricular cerebrospinal fluid volumes in patients with schizophrenia in the whole brain and in specific foci: the hippocampus and adjacent white matter, the cingulate and orbitofrontal cortex, the frontotemporal and parietotemporal areas, and the occipital areas near the lingual gyrus. The classifier had a mean classification accuracy of 81.1% for men and women combined (82% for women and 85% for men, when each group was treated separately), determined via cross-validation.ConclusionsThis study confirms previous findings of reduced frontotemporal volumes and suggests new hypotheses, especially involving occipital association and speech production areas. It also suggests finer localization of volume reduction in the hippocampus and other limbic structures and in the frontal lobe. Pattern classification showed high sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of schizophrenia, suggesting the potential utility of magnetic resonance imaging as a diagnostic aid.Understanding neural substrates of schizophrenia requires determination of the extent and distribution of abnormalities in brain anatomy. Neuroanatomic studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have documented reductions in parenchymal volume that appeared to be specific to gray matter (GM) accompanied by proportionate increases in ventricular cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) volume.Quantitation of regional abnormalities is more demanding because reliable expert-based delineation is labor intensive and is limited to a priori regions of interest (ROIs). Because symptoms and neurocognitive deficits of schizophrenia implicate frontotemporal dysfunction, most expert-guided ROI studies have focused on these areas, although subcortical regions, including the hippocampus and basal ganglia, have also been examined.Automated methods for regional parcellation and voxel-based morphometry can efficiently yield information on the entire brain, thereby permitting the validation of current findings and the discovery of regions not previously implicated.Previous voxel-based morphometry studieshave generally supported the ROI-guided findings in demonstrating tissue reduction in frontotemporal regions and revealing abnormalities in the volume or shape of specific regions, such as the thalamusand the hippocampus.More regionally specific methods that use high-dimensional transformationscan be coupled with pattern classification methods that use shape measurements to distinguish patients with schizophrenia from controls.An important step in validating automated techniques is their comparison with the ROI approach, and several studiesreported similar findings within samples.The main challenge for automated processing lies in the large variability among individuals, particularly in sulci and gyri. Voxel deformation- or tensor-based morphometric approaches to computational anatomy perform a spatial transformation that places images into a stereotaxic space. This is followed by a voxel-wise statistical analysis of the spatial distribution of tissue compartments,the properties of the spatial transformation,or combined measurements of the residual image and the spatial transformation.Because these methods examine each voxel separately, not all voxels jointly, they constitute “mass univariate” and not multivariate approaches. This can result in biased interpretations of the data and in overlooking interactions among different brain regions.Such interrelations can help separate 2 or more populations and may predict whether an individual is at risk for a brain disorder.The goal of the present study is to apply automated image analysis based on deformation morphometry to a sample of well-characterized patients with schizophrenia and matched controls. The morphometric protocol has been integrated and validated on an aging population.After automated segmentation, mass-preserving shape transformations warp individual images into a template, and the total amount of tissue in any region is preserved for subsequent analysis.A classifier is then applied by forming a morphologic signature of the individual brain via the high-dimensional shape transformation.Previous studies on this sample used the ROI approach and identified globally reduced GM and increased ventricular CSF volumes in patients.Regional effects showed reduced frontal,temporolimbic,and thalamicvolumes and increased basal ganglia volumes in previously treated compared with neuroleptic-naïve patients.Sex differences were observed. Women with schizophrenia showed increased amygdala volume and reduced orbitofrontal volume compared with healthy women, whereas men with schizophrenia had reduced amygdala volume and normal orbitofrontal volume relative to healthy men.By applying the present method to the same sample we can evaluate its sensitivity to effects established using the expert-guided ROIs. Because the sample includes never-treated and previously treated patients, we can assess the effects of medication, which will help gauge the confidence we can place in new potential findings. We also sought to determine whether a feature classifier based on the morphometric parameters could reliably separate participants with schizophrenia from healthy people.METHODSPARTICIPANTSSixty-nine patients (46 men and 23 women) with schizophrenia and 79 controls (41 men and 38 women) participated in the study. All the participants were right-handed, and all the women were premenopausal. The mean ± SD values of sociodemographic variables did not differ in patients with schizophrenia vs controls: age, 29.9 ± 8.4 years vs 28.2 ± 7.5 years (t146 = 1.34; P = .18), and parental education, 13.9 ± 3.8 years vs 14.5 ± 3.5 years (t146 = 1.05; P = .30). As expected, patients with schizophrenia attained lower mean ± SD education levels than controls (13.5 ± 2.6 vs 15.8 ± 2.2 years; t149 = 6.01; P < .001). Participants were recruited and assessed at the Schizophrenia Research Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, and they underwent medical, neurologic, and psychiatric evaluations to exclude for a history of illness that affects brain function, including substance abuse, hypertension, metabolic disorders, neurologic disorders, and head trauma with loss of consciousness.For patients, the comprehensive intake evaluation included a structured diagnostic interviewand a review of medical records and information available from family and care providers that contributed to a consensus diagnosis of schizophrenia.The clinical examination included an assessment of symptoms and function, and it was performed by trained and reliable (interclass correlation coefficient >0.90) investigators.Patients had mild-to-moderate symptoms at the time of study as evaluated using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale(mean ± SD score, 36.7 ± 10.8), the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms(1.7 ± 1.1), and the Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms(1.5 ± 0.9). Onset of illness was defined as the emergence of symptoms in the context of functional decline. Level of functioning was assessed using the Premorbid Adjustment Scaleand the Quality of Life Scale.Mean ± SD duration of illness, defined as age at study entry minus age at symptom onset, was 5.6 ± 6.3 years. At study entry, 32 patients were first-episode neuroleptic naïve and 37 were treated with antipsychotic medications. The 2 groups did not differ in education (13.5 ± 2.9 years vs 13.7 ± 2.4 years; t67 = 0.37; P = .71), parental education (13.8 ± 3.6 years vs 14.4 ± 3.8 years; t67 = 0.76; P = .45), Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale score (38.5 ± 10.7 vs 35.9 ± 10.7; t67 = 1.34; P = .18), Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptomsscore (1.8 ± 1.1 vs 1.6 ± 1.1; t67 = 1.77; P = .08), Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptomsscore (1.5 ± 0.8 vs 1.6 ± 1.0; t67 = 0.94; P = .35), Quality of Life Scale score (3.2 ± 1.1 vs 2.9 ± 1.3; t67 = 1.01; P = .38), or Premorbid Adjustment Scale score (2.0 ± 1.1 vs 1.9 ± 1.1; t67 = 0.35; P = .73), but, as expected, first-episode patients were younger (26.3 ± 6.8 years vs 30.8 ± 6.7 years; t67 = 2.60; P = .009) and had a shorter duration of illness (2.0 ± 3.2 years vs 8.6 ± 6.3 years; t67 = 5.24; P < .001). Men with schizophrenia did not differ from women with schizophrenia on any of these measures: education (13.5 ± 2.8 years vs 13.8 ± 2.5 years; t67 = 0.33; P = .75), parental education (14.3 ± 3.8 years vs 13.5 ± 3.5 years; t67 = 0.58; P = .56), Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale score (38.4 ± 10.8 vs 34.4 ± 10.2; t67 = 0.93; P = .34), Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptomsscore (1.9 ± 1.1 vs 1.3 ± 0.8; t67 = 1.01; P = .32), Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptomsscore (1.6 ± 0.9 vs 1.3 ± 1.0; t67 = 0.49; P = .62), Quality of Life Scale score (2.9 ± 1.2 vs 3.4 ± 1.2; t67 = 1.36; P = .18), Premorbid Adjustment Scale score (2.0 ± 1.1 vs 1.7 ± 1.0; t67 = 1.06; P = .29), age (27.7 ± 7.2 years vs 30.8 ± 6.2 years; t67 = 1.60; P = .11), and duration of illness (5.3 ± 6.1 years vs 4.6 ± 5.5 years; t67 = 0.42; P = .67).Controls underwent the Structured Clinical Interview forDSM-IV Axis I Disorders, Non-Patient Edition,and reported no first-degree relatives with schizophrenia or affective illness. The sample overlaps with samples reported in earlier publications.The current data set includes all patients with schizophrenia and demographically matched controls who have been studied using the same scanner with the same protocol and who had suitable quality of scan for automated analysis of the entire supertentorial brain. Some studies using spoiled gradient recalled acquisition in the steady state (GRASS) MRI included larger samples because they involved regions unaffected by “ghosting” artifacts that precluded whole-brain analysis. The study was approved by the University of Pennsylvania institutional review board and was performed after written informed consent was obtained.MRI ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIST1-weighted images were obtained using a 1.5-T scanner (1.5T Signa; General Electric Medical Systems, Milwaukee, Wis) using spoiled GRASS pulse sequence (flip angle, 35°; repetition time, 35 milliseconds; echo time, 6 milliseconds; field of view, 24 cm; and NEX 1, 1-mm section thickness and no intersection gaps). In-plane resolution was 0.9375 × 0.9375 mm. No parenchymal lesions or skull abnormalities were evident neuroradiologically.Images were analyzed via a deformation-based morphometric analysis protocol as previously detailed,which included skull stripping; tissue classification into GM, white matter (WM), and ventricular CSF; and spatial normalization to a standardized stereotactic space, a step necessary for group analysis, using a high-dimensional elastic spatial normalization transformation.Three tissue density (RAVENS[Regional Analysis of Volumes Examined in Normalized Space]) maps were generated, 1 for each tissue type, reflecting the regional amount of the respective tissues in the vicinity of each voxel.STATISTICAL ANALYSISSpatially normalized RAVENS maps of patients and controls and of subgroups (men and women and neuroleptic-naïve and treated patients) were compared statistically using voxel-wise ttests and voxel-wise effect sizes after spatial smoothing with a Gaussian filter of full-width half-maximum equal to 8 mm. Correction for multiple comparisons was performed using the methods embedded in the statistical parametric mapping software.Only the clusters that exceeded a significance threshold of P < .05 after correction for multiple comparisons are reported.MRI-BASED DIAGNOSIS VIA PATTERN CLASSIFICATIONIn addition to RAVENS maps, we applied a pattern classification method to examine whether the morphologic profiles measured using the RAVENS density maps can be used to separate patients with schizophrenia from controls. This approach considers all brain voxels jointly in a high-dimensional space rather than examining each brain region individually.Although in each brain region there could be considerable overlap between control and schizophrenia, thereby leading to poor diagnostic accuracy, a nonlinear multivariate analysis of all brain regions simultaneously could separate the 2 groups with higher classification sensitivity. We used the jackknife (leave-1-out) method, that is, we trained the classifier on all but 1 patient and tested it on the (independent) left out sample for robust estimation of performance.RESULTSTOTAL BRAIN TISSUE VOLUMESThe mean ± SD global volumes for GM, WM, and ventricular CSF are given in Table 1. Patients with schizophrenia showed significantly lower GM and higher ventricular CSF volumes, whereas the WM total volume difference was not significant between the 2 groups. For patients, GM, WM, and ventricular CSF volumes did not correlate with duration of illness (r = −0.29, −0.17, and 0.12), mean Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptomsscores (r = 0.20, 0.01, and −0.24), or mean Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptomsscores (r = 0.05, −0.07, and −0.26).Table 1. Global Volumetric Measurements for Gray Matter, White Matter, and Ventricular CSF*Whole SampleMenWomenControlsSCZFEPTPValue†PValue‡PValue§PValue&par;ControlsSCZPValueControlsSCZPValueGM553 ± 58519 ± 56521 ± 57517 ± 56<.001.005<.001.36569 ± 60541 ± 42.006537 ± 53475 ± 57<.001WM447 ± 59439 ± 56435 ± 44443 ± 65.20.15.35.29469 ± 59456 ± 47.11423 ± 49406 ± 58.12CSF16 ± 720 ± 819 ± 820 ± 7<.001.01<.001.2317 ± 719 ± 7.0514 ± 620 ± 8.5.001 Abbreviations: CSF, ventricular cerebrospinal fluid; FE, first episode; GM, gray matter; PT, previously treated; SCZ, patients with schizophrenia; WM, white matter. *Data are given as mean ± SD in cubic centimeters. †Controls vs SCZ. ‡Controls vs FE. ‡Controls vs PT.  &par;FE vs PT.LOCAL VOLUMETRIC MEASUREMENTSVoxel-based statistical analysis of the RAVENS maps revealed a spatially complex pattern of volumetric differences between groups. The volume reduction in patients was not diffuse, with several foci of abnormality evident. The abnormalities were primarily in prefrontal and temporal regions, but other areas also showed significant differences. Table 2summarizes the regions in which the peaks of the local clusters were located and their associated Pvalues after correction for multiple comparisons. Unlike GM, WM did not show any significant group difference. The only peaks that approached significance were in the WM adjacent to the right hippocampus (P = .02) and the left lingual gyrus (P = .046). Both regions also showed a significant difference in GM volume.Table 2. Summary of the Results Obtained by Voxel-Wise Statistical Analysis of the RAVENS Maps of Controls and Patients With SchizophreniaStructurePValue*Frontal gyri Superior frontal gyrus right.002 Inferior frontal gyrus left and right.004 Lateral fronto-orbital gyrus left.001Temporal gyri Superior temporal gyrus left.001 Middle temporal gyrus left.002 Inferior temporal gyrus left.002 Insula left.001 Lateral occipitotemporal gyrus right.001Parietal gyri Angular gyrus left and right.002 (left)/.001 (right) Supramarginal gyrus left.001Occipital gyri Lingual gyrus left.001 Middle occipital gyrus right.001Limbic Hippocampal formation left and right.003 (left)/.001 (right) Cingulate region left and right.001White matter Temporal lobe right (close to   hippocampus right).02 Vicinity of lingual gyrus left.046 *The Pvalues of the tstatistic after statistical parametric mapping correction for multiple comparisons are shown (only regions with significance at P < .05, after correction).Figure 1depicts several representative images with overlays of color-coded clusters of significant group differences and the underlying template used for spatial normalization. Color-coding is based on the values of the tstatistic. Only voxels with significant group differences are shown overlaid on the template.Figure 1.Regions with reduced gray matter (GM) or white matter (WM) volume. A, Hippocampal GM. B, Hippocampal WM. C, Cingulate gyrus GM. D, Orbitofrontal gyrus GM. E, Insula GM. F, Lingual gyrus/Brodmann areas 18 and 19 GM. G, Lingual gyrus/Brodmann areas 18 and 19 WM. Color-coding is according to the scale in A, except for B and G. Images are displayed in neurologic convention (left hemisphere on viewer’s left).Examination of effect sizes for the entire sample (Figure 2) shows local maxima in regions of statistical significance and also demonstrates the expansion in ventricular CSF (Figure 2H). Noticeable is the enlargement of the anterior compared with the posterior ventricles. The statistical parametric mapping global analysis did not show any significant effects of the moderator variables because there were no sex × region or diagnosis × sex × region interactions, and neither were there significant interactions when neuroleptic-naïve and previously treated patients were contrasted. Thus, overall volume differences between patients and controls are not entirely moderated by these factors. However, evaluation of the effect sizes in patients separated by sex (Figure 3) and medication (Figure 4) suggested that such factors are worthy of further examination with larger samples. Specifically, women with schizophrenia displayed higher effect size magnitudes compared with men. The statistical significance of this difference seems to have been attenuated by the smaller sample size of female patients. The spatial pattern of the group differences was similar between men and women. However, reduced orbital volume seemed more pronounced and extended in women, whereas reduced amygdala volume was more pronounced in men.Figure 2.Effect size maps for the entire sample. A, Right hippocampal white matter (WM). B, Right hippocampal gray matter (GM). C, Left insula GM. D, Cingulate gyrus GM. E, Left lingual gyrus GM. F, Left orbitofrontal gyrus. G, Left amygdala and orbitofrontal GM. H, Ventricular cerebrospinal fluid. The color bar in A applies to all maps, except for the one in H. Images are displayed in neurologic convention.Figure 3.Effect size maps for patients with schizophrenia vs controls. Effect size maps for women (A) and men (B) displayed in neurologic convention. C, Effect size maps for men and women combined projected on the outer cortical surface. D, Mean of the 148 images after they were spatially normalized via elastic warping to the template.Figure 4.Effect size maps for control vs patient group difference calculated separately for neuroleptic-naïve patients (A) and treated patients (B). Treated patients showed a pronounced increase in basal ganglia volumes (blue). Images are displayed in neurologic convention.Comparing neuroleptic-naïve with previously treated patients likewise showed a similar pattern in both groups (Figure 4). However, the basal ganglia had negative signs, indicating expansion in patients relative to controls, and this effect was more pronounced in treated than in untreated patients. The effect sizes of the treated patients were similar albeit of higher magnitude.To ensure that our accuracy was not adversely affected by registration errors, we formed the average of all 148 spatially normalized images after they were warped to the template. This method is used for visually evaluating the accuracy of the template warping method because residual variability caused by error in the warping mechanism produces fuzziness of the resultant average images. The clarity of the mean in Figure 3D reflects the high accuracy of the underlying template warping procedure and, therefore, of our morphologic measurements.In addition to the cross-sectional views of the effect sizes in Figure 2and Figure 3, we also formed 3-dimensional renditions of the effect sizes of the combined group, as shown in Figure 3C, which projects the average effect size maps of Figure 2within a neighborhood around the outer cortical surface of the template onto this surface. This map is informative because it summarizes the spatial pattern of volumetric findings and highlights the vulnerability of inferior temporal, occipitotemporal, and orbitofrontal regions. However, it is only complementary to Figure 2because it shows only relatively superficial findings (within 8 mm of the outer cortex). Moreover, it significantly reduces the peak effect sizes by averaging within a spherical neighborhood with a radius of 8 mm.MRI-BASED PATIENT CLASSIFICATION ACCURACYThe nonlinear classification method achieved 100% fitting accuracy when applied on the training set. We obtained an estimate of how well the classifier would generalize to new patients by using the jackknife technique. The classification accuracy was 81.1% (87.3% specificity and 73.9% sensitivity) for the classifier combining men and women. Accuracy for the individual male and female classifiers was 85.0% (78.0% specificity and 91.0% sensitivity) and 82.0% (86.9% specificity and 73.9% sensitivity), respectively. Sensitivity reflects the probability of disease detection, and specificity reflects the probability of correct classification of controls.To test the statistical significance of the classification result, we performed random permutation tests. In particular, we performed 8 random assignments of all participants to patient or control categories, then performed the leave-1-out procedure. This resulted in a total of 8×148 = 1184 classifiers and testing images. The cumulative distribution of the classification accuracy showed that most trials yielded performance similar to that of a coin toss, as would be expected. The mean ± SD of the classification accuracy of these random assignment experiments was 49.0% ± 6.5% (which yielded a significance value of the classification results [P < .001]), which is extremely low and bolsters our confidence in the results. Finally, we performed an receiver operating characteristic curve analysis (the varying parameter was the decision threshold of the classifier) for each of the 3 classifiers (Figure 5).Figure 5.Receiver operating characteristic curves for the 3 classifiers: all participants, men only, and women only.COMMENTThe present study applied an automated and accurate protocol for whole-brain and regional morphometric analysis using measured deformation patterns for automated diagnostic classification. Although measures for whole-brain volumes were not directly comparable with earlier studies that used dual-echo images for segmentation,the differences between patients and controls are of comparable magnitude. For example, whole-brain GM in the present study showed an approximately 7% reduction in schizophrenia compared with approximately 6% in the larger sample using dual-echo images. White matter volume did not show significant differences in either study, whereas ventricular CSF volume showed an increase of approximately 20% in both studies and was almost double in women compared with men with schizophrenia. These changes are also consistent with those reported in the meta-analysis by Wright et al,albeit on the high end of the 90% confidence interval. Because meta-analyses necessarily include studies with different rigor of diagnostic procedures, the larger effect size we observe could be a result of careful screening of patients and controls. Another possible discrepancy with earlier studies on whole-brain changes is our observation that women show larger effect sizes. Although this observation is consistent with the earlier studyusing dual-echo MRI, it is inconsistent with another studythat reported less ventricular increase in women. This issue merits further scrutiny in future studies.The regional effects, likewise, were consistent with the ROI-based analysis. Thus, the lower volume in superior and inferior temporal gyri and in the hippocampus was evident in the ROI analysis.Furthermore, the amygdala did not show reduced volume for the total sample with either method. The frontal lobe effects are more difficult to compare because the ROIs we used were major subdivisions (lateral, medial, dorsal, and orbital).However, the location of the significant reduction in the superior and inferior frontal regions in the present study is in the dorsal and medial regions that showed significant reduction in the ROI study. Overall, for the frontotemporal regions, the present analysis yielded findings consistent with our previous studies and with the literature on ROI-based approaches.Other voxel-based studies have reported reduced cortical volume in schizophrenia in the ventral and medial prefrontal regions; the orbitofrontal, superotemporal, and occipitotemporal regions; the right medial frontal lobe; the left midtemporal gyrus; and the left superior temporal gyrus.All the temporal regions that showed clusters of reduced volume had the peak reduction on the left except for the lateral occipitotemporal gyrus, with a right hemispheric peak, and the hippocampus, with bilateral volume reduction. This is consistent with other findings that support the hypothesis of left temporal lobe dysfunction in schizophrenia.Regarding subcortical regions, the automated approach did not detect the reduced thalamic volume previously reported using ROI methodsand automated methods.Measurements of subcortical structures may require a different tissue classification technique because subcortical structures, especially the thalamus, have MRI signal characteristics that place them between GM and WM. Incorporation of fuzzy classification methods may help address this problem. Other voxel-based studieshave observed reduced thalamic volume.Examining potential moderators yielded results that were likewise consistent with findings using the ROI approach. Larger effect sizes for women were observed in frontaland temporalcomparisons, and we also reported reduced orbitofrontal volume relative to amygdala volume in women compared with men with schizophrenia.The contrast between neuroleptic-naïve and previously treated patients revealed the increased volume of basal ganglia associated with treatment, as previously reported using the ROI approach.In addition to generally supporting earlier findings, our voxel-based analysis showed that in the affected structures, abnormalities were quite focal. We speculate that the clusters seem associated with 3 networks: the temporolimbic and fronto-orbital network, involved in regulating emotion; the frontotemporal network for episodic memory; and the prefrontal-cingulate network, which regulates rule-controlled action.All these networks are implicated in schizophrenia.The method permitted more precise pinpointing of the abnormalities. For example, the reduced hippocampal volume was localized in the middle to posterior hippocampus and medially (Figure 1A). Moreover, reduced volume of the adjacent WM of the parahippocampal gyrus (particularly around the subiculum) was measured at exactly the same level along the anteroposterior direction (Figure 1B). In conjunction with the focal volumetric reduction of the cingulate genu, this might imply disruption of neuronal bodies and respective axons in parts of the medial limbic system, implicated in emotion-processing deficits of schizophrenia.A set of foci of volumetric decrease also involved the medial orbitofrontal and adjacent cingulate cortex (Figure 1C) and the dorsomedial thalamus. These areas complement the limbic system in modulating affective and motivational aspects of behavior.A distinct set of clusters of volume reduction was evident in the frontotemporal cortex. There was focal reduction in the middle superior aspect of the superotemporal gyrus (Figure 1E) and prominent clusters in the areas of Broca and Wernicke. For the Wernicke area, there was an asymmetry in the abnormality pattern, with only the left hemisphere displaying widespread and significant volumetric differences. These regions, mediating language and auditory processing, have been studied extensively, and abnormalities have been related to electrophysiologic and neurocognitive deficits.Finally, the inferior frontal gyrus displayed bilateral decrease in patients with schizophrenia, although the extent was relatively small (Figure 1E). Some studiesreported dorsolateral frontal volume reduction. However, previous studies partitioned the frontal lobe into relatively larger structures, which limits the spatial localization of the measured effects. Although abnormalities in left hemispheric parietal receptive language areas have been reported,supporting the hypothesis of left hemispheric dysfunction in schizophrenia, speech production regions have received less attention, but we found them to be equally affected.Thus, it seems that the automated method for segmentation and parcellation is about as sensitive as the ROI approach to neuroanatomic changes associated with schizophrenia and effects of moderators. Therefore, examination of new regions of neuroanatomic differences revealed by this method has merit. A notable new area of abnormality is in the inferior occipital region, where substantial volume reduction was observed, with a broad spatial extent (Figure 1F and G). This cluster seems to be primarily located in the lingual gyrus, although it is unclear exactly which occipital area is affected. We place the cluster in Brodmann areas 18 and 19, regions involved in visual association and orientation.Although the visual system has been considered to be generally intact in schizophrenia, our anatomical findings suggest further investigation. Deficits in the visual-processing cascade may underlie downstream dysfunction in more complex operations that require visual input.Differences between patients and controls were observed almost exclusively in GM and ventricles. The only WM regions in which group differences reached marginal significance were close to the right hippocampus and the left occipital area, where GM volume was also reduced. Although we did not find that women have a significantly larger corpus callosum, as has been reported in earlier studies,there was a trend for women to have higher volume in the splenium of the callosum, which did not survive correction for multiple comparisons. Therefore, our negative results should not be considered as contradicting findings from studies that have examined the corpus callosum in detail.Our classification results suggest that complex spatial patterns of morphologic characteristics can ultimately be used as an image-based diagnostic aid. If these results are replicated on an independent sample, with sensitivity and specificity relative to other disorders, they can support the utility of MRI as an aid in the diagnosis of schizophrenia. There are 2 reasons for our confidence that the classification accuracy estimates we report will generalize. First, we used cross-validation, the jackknife (leave-1-out) procedure, thereby testing the classifier on images that were never seen before. The jackknife is well-establishedas a means for obtaining relatively unbiased estimates of future performance. Second, we split the sample into men and women and obtained similar classification performance. We also noted a sex difference in discriminability parameters. The classifier had higher sensitivity than specificity for diagnosing schizophrenia in men and higher specificity than sensitivity for diagnosing schizophrenia in women. Replication of these findings in larger samples is required. We are also examining methods for improved classification accuracy, including selection of wavelet or other basis functions and more effective feature selection schemes. The potential benefits of such diagnostic tools are enhanced by our finding that the abnormalities are present in first-episode, neuroleptic-naïve patients. It seems important to examine whether these morphologic characteristics of schizophrenia occur early in life and relate to disease vulnerability, onset, and course. Such knowledge can be gained from genetic and longitudinal paradigms.Our method has several limitations. Because of the need to control for multiple comparisons, large samples are necessary to establish regional group differences. Thus, although our sample size was sufficient to document differences between patients and controls, it is insufficiently powered to establish, for example, sex differences within diagnostic groups. The different findings for GM and WM might reflect an underlying difference in the way neuronal bodies and axonal connections are affected by the disease. However, it might also be due to the limitations of standard T1-weighted MRI to resolve WM structures. Future studies using diffusion tensor imaging will be able to resolve WM anatomy in greater detail. Another limitation of our method is its focus on cortical structures. Subcortical measurements would require a different tissue classification technique because subcortical structures, especially the thalamus, have MRI signal characteristics that place them between GM and WM. Because our morphologic analysis was based on a hard segmentation method, it is bound to be limited when examining subcortical structures. Incorporation of fuzzy classification methodsmight, to some extent, alleviate this problem. All voxel-based morphometric analysis methods are susceptible to the effects of the spatial normalization transformation that registers images of different individuals. Regions in which this spatial transformation has relatively lower accuracy will tend to display artificially higher variability, which will adversely affect statistical significance. For example, registration and measurement of highly variable prefrontal cortical regions is less accurate than measurement of less variable structures, such as the precentral gyrus. We demonstrated that the accuracy of our study was not adversely affected by registration errors, as indicated by the clarity of the average image, which was even clearer than the template itself. This is only possible when the spatially normalized images are accurately co-registered. A future direction involves quantifying variability in every region, after spatial normalization. Because such residual variability is directly related to our ability to measure the respective structure, it will further assist in the interpretation of results.The present methods for automated analysis of morphometric data largely support findings from earlier studies using expert-guided ROIs or automated procedures. In addition to finer localization of anatomical abnormalities in previously implicated regions, the main new finding we report is reduced volume in visual association areas that include the lingual gyrus. 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