The Primary Motor Cortex (M1) in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patients and healthy controls (HC) has a different appearance in Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) images. The purpose of this study was to identify a set of distribution indices of QSM values in M1 that enable to better classify ALS patients and HC. Taken individually, the mean value, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis of the QSM value distributions enabled to obtain diagnostic accuracies 0.43 < A < 0.78. When the distribution indices were jointly used in support vector machine (SVM) classifiers, it was possible to achieve a diagnostic accuracy of 0.90.
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