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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 31.
Published in final edited form as: Med Image Anal. 2009 Jul 10;13(5):730–743. doi: 10.1016/j.media.2009.07.003

Table 4.

Differences in cortical thickness between the NC–MCI, MCI–AD and NC–AD groups computed with the proposed method.

Structure NC vs. MCI
MCI vs. AD
NC vs. AD
Difference (mm) p-Value %Atrophy Difference (mm) p-Value %Atrophy Difference (mm) p-Value %Atrophy
Hipp L 0.566 <0.001 17.67* 0.200 0.198 7.59 0.766 <0.001 23.92*
Hipp R 0.432 <0.001 14.25* 0.308 0.019 11.83 0.740 <0.001 24.40*
Ang L 0.292 <0.001 10.36* 0.127 0.318 5.03 0.420 <0.001 14.87*
Ang R 0.244 0.002 9.19 0.106 0.325 4.40 0.351 <0.001 13.18*
STG L 0.247 <0.001 9.68* 0.056 0.490 2.41 0.302 <0.001 11.85*
STG R 0.254 <0.001 9.49* 0.062 0.424 2.56 0.315 <0.001 11.81*
ITG L 0.323 0.002 8.57 0.174 0.174 5.05 0.497 <0.001 13.18
ITG R 0.305 <0.001 8.16 0.180 0.192 5.25 0.486 <0.001 12.99
PHG L 0.298 <0.001 7.98 0.172 0.101 5.02 0.470 <0.001 12.59*
PHG R 0.236 0.002 6.25 0.344 0.001 9.72 0.580 <0.001 15.37*
MTG L 0.283 <0.001 9.27* 0.080 0.452 2.89 0.364 <0.001 11.89*
MTG R 0.237 0.005 7.57 0.128 0.283 4.44 0.365 <0.001 11.68*

Hipp, Hippocampus; PHG, Parahippocampal gyrus; ITG, Inferior temporal gyrus; MTG, Middle temporal gyrus; STG, Superior temporal gyrus; Ang, Angular. The star sign (*), indicates significantly atrophied regions, using a FDR-corrected p < 0.05.