Online atrophy calculation tool based on BSI (FIFO Queue)


The "Online atrophy tool" is a fully automated software-as-service tool, which uses the boundary shift integral algorithm to compute the atrophy between two timepoints longitudinal studies. BSI is a robust method for measuring brain atrophy rates from longitudinal magnetic resonane imaging scans using linear registration to align the baseline and repeat images and then track the shift of the brain boundary location.

The results will be sent to the following e-mail address:


Boundary Shift Integral method:


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Publications on GBSI

We would appreciate it if the following references would be included in any published work that uses this resource:

  • Ferran Prados, M. Jorge Cardoso, Kelvin K. Leung, David M. Cash, Marc Modat, Nick C. Fox, Claudia A.M. Wheeler-Kingshott, Sebastien Ourselin for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Measuring brain atrophy with a generalized formulation of the boundary shift integral. Neurobiology of aging. (2014).
  • http://niftyweb.cs.ucl.ac.uk/
  • Ferran Prados, M. Jorge Cardoso, Ninon Burgos, Claudia AM Wheeler-Kingshott, Sebastien Ourselin. NiftyWeb: web based platform for image processing on the cloud. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 24th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition - Singapore 2016
  • "The GPU card used for this research was donated by the NVIDIA Corporation." or "We gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of the GPU card used for this research".

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