Non-linear Hypothesis Testing of Geometric Object Properties of Shapes Applied to Hippocampi

This paper presents a novel method to test mean differences of geometric object properties (GOPs). The method is designed for data whose representations include both Euclidean and non-Euclidean elements. It is based on advanced statistical analysis methods such as backward means on spheres. We develop a suitable permutation test to find global and simultaneously individual morphological differences between two populations based on the GOPs. To demonstrate the sensitivity of the method, an analysis exploring differences between hippocampi of first-episode schizophrenics and controls is presented. Each hippocampus is represented by a discrete skeletal representation (s-rep). We investigate important model properties using the statistics of populations. These properties are highlighted by the s-rep model that allows accurate capture of the object interior and boundary while, by design, being suitable for statistical analysis of populations of objects. By supporting non-Euclidean GOPs such as direction vectors, the proposed hypothesis test is novel in the study of morphological shape differences. Suitable difference measures are proposed for each GOP. Both global and simultaneous GOP analyses showed statistically significant differences between the first-episode schizophrenics and controls.

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