Method for Analysing an Image of the Brain of a Subject, Computer Program Product for Analysing Such Image and Apparatus for Implementing the Method

Computer program product for analysing an image of the brain of a subject, said computer program product being stored on a carrier readable by a computer and comprising instructions operable to cause a processor:

• to parcellate in an automated manner an image in at least three dimensions of the brain of a subject into regions of interest (ROIs) in a brain native reference frame characteristic of said brain, the image being sampled into voxels, each voxel of the image being assigned to one of the ROI in the brain native reference frame,
• to determine in an automated manner, for each ROI, at least one discriminating value based on image data measured on the image, said image data being representative of an anatomical or functional feature of the brain, the instructions operable to cause the processor to determine the discriminating value being operable to cause the processor, for each ROI:
• to calculate at least one relative parameter concerning the image data based on said image data measured for each voxel,
• to establish the discriminating value from the relative parameter,
• so that each discriminating value being relative with regard to the discriminating values of the other ROIs.