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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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