Abstract #3561
            Multi-contrast z-score comparison discriminates patients with psychiatric disorders from controls
                      Aziz M Ulug                     1,2                    , Mehmed Ozkan                     2                    , 						Peter B Kingsley                     3                    , Ivana De Lucia                     1                    , 						Azim Celik                     4                    , Pamela DeRosse                     5,6                    , 						Anil Malhotra                     5,6                    , and Philip R Szeszko                     5,6          
            
            1
           
           Center for Neurosciences, Feinstein 
						Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, 
						United States,
           
            2
           
           Institute 
						of Biomedical Engineering, Bogazici University, 
						Istanbul, Turkey,
           
            3
           
           North 
						Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York, United 
						States,
           
            4
           
           GE 
						Healthcare, Antalya, Turkey,
           
            5
           
           Center 
						for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Feinstein Institute for 
						Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States,
           
            6
           
           Psychiatry 
						Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore-LIJ 
						Health System, New York, United States
          
            
          Developing a neuroimaging tool that can determine the 
						normalcy of a multi-contrast MR examination will be 
						useful in clinical practice. In a given radiology 
						department, close to 50% of all MRI examinations are 
						read as normal by the staff radiologists. Here, we 
						describe a z-score based method which reduces the entire 
						MRI examination to a single number, which can be used to 
						determine the disease state. We have applied this 
						methodology to two groups of patients (schizophrenia and 
						bipolar disease) and two groups of matched healthy 
						controls. We show that although the clinical MR imaging 
						was not diagnostic, we can separate the patient groups 
						from controls using this method.
         
				
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