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Acknowledgements
The research in this thesis is undertaken mainly with the Biomedical Imaging
Group at the Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia,
in collaboration with the LE2I CNRS UMR 5158, Université de Bourgogne, France,
under the direction of Prof. Fabrice Mériaudeau, and Dr. Pierrick Bourgeat.
I would like to express my great gratefulness to my family and Doktorväter for their
unwavering support and tenacious commitment every moment during the past
three years. Dr. Olivier Salvado, Group Leader of the Biomedical Imaging Group
at the Australian e-Health Research Centre offered invaluable advice and generous
help during my stay at his laboratory. Dr. Jurgen Fripp shared unreservedly
his wisdom and insight on most problems encountered during my Ph.D. research.
Present and past members at the laboratory: Dr. Oscar Acosta Tamayo, Neil
Burdett, Dr. Shekhar Chandra, Dr. Tim Coles, Dave Conlan, Dr. Vincent Doré,
Dr. Jason Dowling, Dr. Nicholas Dowson, Dr. Cédric Dumas, Josh Passenger,
Dr. Parnesh Raniga, Dr. Hans de Visser, Dr. Di Xiao, and Dr. Luping Zhou all contributed
their time and provided assistance without which the completion of this
thesis would be impossible. In the most pleasant collaboration with Dr. Sébastien
Ourselin, Dr. Kelvin K. Leung, and Dr. Gaël Chételat, the reward I received
is more than knowledge. My thanks also go to fellow students and alumni of
the laboratory: Alexandre Bilger, Erik Bonner, Juan Carlos Borda Carulla, Daan
Broekhuizen, Josh Butler, Mario Cheng, Jérémy Coatelen, Dr. Olivier Comas, Zoé
Dubois Dit Laroy, Quentin Duché, Amir Fazlollahi, Jean-Baptiste Fiot, Florence
Gris, Aleš Neubert, Anthony Paproki, David Raffelt, William Alberto Romero
Ramirez, Andrea Rueda-Olarte, Christoph Russ, Aznul Qalid Md Sabri, Pierre
Schmitt, Ying Xia. I thank Luca Giancardo for providing the typesetting tools for
this thesis, and my learned friends Tian-cong Chen and Wei Liu for their counsel
on various topics.
The Australian Imaging, Biomarker & Lifestyle Flagship Study of Ageing (AIBL)
study provided the part of the MR image data of healthy elderly subjects and
Alzheimer’s disease patients used in this thesis.
The hippocampal volume data used this thesis are collected and shared by the
Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) (National Institutes of Health
Grant U01 AG024904). ADNI data are disseminated by the Laboratory for Neuro
Imaging at the University of California, Los Angeles.