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Brain Age Estimation on a Dementia Cohort Using FLAIR MRI Biomarkers

Owen Crystal, Pejman J. Maralani, Sandra Black, Corinne Fischer, Alan R. Moody and April Khademi
American Journal of Neuroradiology December 2023, 44 (12) 1384-1390; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A8059
Owen Crystal
aFrom the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering (O.C., A.K.), Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
jInstitute of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology (O.C., A.K.), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Pejman J. Maralani
bDepartment of Medical Imaging (P.J.M., A.R.M., A.K.), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Sandra Black
cInstitute of Medical Science (S.B., C.F.), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
dDepartment of Neurology (S.B.), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
eHurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (S.B.), Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
fDivision of Neurology (S.B.), Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
gL.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit (S.B.), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Corinne Fischer
cInstitute of Medical Science (S.B., C.F.), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
hDepartment of Psychiatry (C.F.), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
iKeenan Research Center (C.F., A.K.), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Alan R. Moody
bDepartment of Medical Imaging (P.J.M., A.R.M., A.K.), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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April Khademi
aFrom the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering (O.C., A.K.), Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
bDepartment of Medical Imaging (P.J.M., A.R.M., A.K.), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
iKeenan Research Center (C.F., A.K.), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
jInstitute of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology (O.C., A.K.), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
kVector Institute for Artificial Intelligence (A.K.), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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