Table 3.
Visual interpretation of VBM maps: cross tables of the reader consensus versus the ground truth diagnoses for the differentiation between AD, FTLD, and normal, separately for each of the three different VBM methods
| Scanner-specific VBM | Multiple-scanner VBM | CNN-VBM | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AD | FTLD | Normal | AD | FTLD | Normal | AD | FTLD | Normal | ||
| Ground truth | AD | 38 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 36 | 38 | 7 | 6 |
| FTLD | 3 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 25 | 2 | |
| Normal | 0 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 3 | 1 | 33 | |
AD Alzheimer’s disease, CNN convolutional neural network, CNN-VBM CNN-based VBM without reference to a normal database, FTLD frontotemporal lobar degeneration, multiple-scanner VBM conventional VBM with a mixed normal database comprising T1w-MRI images from multiple scanners as reference, scanner-specific VBM conventional VBM with a scanner- and sequence-specific normal database as reference, VBM voxel-based morphometry