Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences
Abstract
Background/aim: The aim of the present study was to examine and compare the corpus callosum (CC) via histogram analysis (HA) on T1-weighted MR images of patients diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) and healthy controls. Materials and methods: The study group included 19 female patients diagnosed with FND, and the control group included 20 healthy subjects. All participants were scanned with a 1.5 T MR scanner. A high-resolution structural image of the entire brain was obtained with sagittal 3D spiral fast spin echo T1-weighted images. Gray level intensity, standard deviation of the histogram, entropy, uniformity, skewness, and kurtosis values were determined with texture analysis. A student's t-test was used to compare the group data. P < 0.05 was accepted as statistically significant. Results: It was determined that the mean gray level intensity, standard deviation of the histogram, entropy calculated by the maximum, median and variance and size M percentage values were higher in patients with FND. Kurtosis and size U percentages values were lower in patients with FND. Conclusion: In the present study, analysis of CC with T1-weighted MR image HA demonstrated significant differences between FND patients and healthy controls. The study findings indicated that HA is a beneficial technique for demonstrating textural variations between the CCs of patients with FND and healthy controls using MR images.
DOI
10.3906/sag-2004-252
Keywords
Conversion disorder, somatoform disorders, corpus callosum, histogram, magnetic resonance imaging
First Page
140
Last Page
147
Recommended Citation
BAYKARA, SEMA; BAYKARA, MURAT; MERMİ, OSMAN; YILDIRIM, HANEFİ; and ATMACA, MURAD
(2021)
"Magnetic resonance imaging histogram analysis of corpus callosum in a functionalneurological disorder,"
Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences: Vol. 51:
No.
1, Article 18.
https://doi.org/10.3906/sag-2004-252
Available at:
https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/medical/vol51/iss1/18