Research Article

Automated VOI Analysis in FDDNP PET Using Structural Warping: Validation through Classification of Alzheimer's Disease Patients

Table 1

Best discriminant models.

ModelClassification %Cross-validation %Regions usedPermutation significance

MMSE only77.377.3N/AN/A
Unwarped PET data only82.673.92,4,5,8,9
Warped PET data only8773.94,5,8,9
Unwarped PET data and MMSE91.3874,5,8,9
Warped PET data and MMSE10095.74,5,8

(None of the 100,000 permutations resulted in a model that performed as well as the true data).