Multivariate Longitudinal Shape Analysis of Human Lateral Ventricles during the First Twenty-Four Months of Life
Figure 5
Qualitative comparisons of the shape changes of the right and left lateral ventricles between two contiguous imaging time points are shown.
The correspondence between the color scheme and the age is provided at the bottom of the figure. The opacity of the color is adjusted based on the size of the ventricle such that a high opacity is used for the larger ventricle of the two time points whereas the smaller ventricle is shown using a solid color. Since the volumes of both the left and right ventricles increase in year 1, solid color is used for the older time point and a color with a high opacity is used for the younger time point whereas this scheme is reversed for the comparisons in year 2 where the LV volumes are reduced with age.