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Hippocampus Segmentation and Classification in Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Applied on MR Images

  • Madusanka, Nuwan (Department of Computer Engineering, Inje University) ;
  • Choi, Yu Yong (National Research Center for Dementia, Chosun University) ;
  • Choi, Kyu Yeong (National Research Center for Dementia, Chosun University) ;
  • Lee, Kun Ho (National Research Center for Dementia, Chosun University) ;
  • Choi, Heung-Kook (Department of Computer Engineering, Inje University)
  • Received : 2016.12.28
  • Accepted : 2017.01.31
  • Published : 2017.02.28

Abstract

The brain magnetic resonance images (MRI) is an important imaging biomarker in Alzheimer's disease (AD) as the cerebral atrophy has been shown to strongly associate with cognitive symptoms. The decrease of volume estimates in different structures of the medial temporal lobe related to memory correlates with the decline of cognitive functions in neurodegenerative diseases. During the past decades several methods have been developed for quantifying the disease related atrophy of hippocampus from MRI. Special effort has been dedicated to separate AD and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) related modifications from normal aging for the purpose of early detection and prediction. We trained a multi-class support vector machine (SVM) with probabilistic outputs on a sample (n = 58) of 20 normal controls (NC), 19 individuals with MCI, and 19 individuals with AD. The model was then applied to the cross-validation of same data set which no labels were known and the predictions. This study presents data on the association between MRI quantitative parameters of hippocampus and its quantitative structural changes examination use on the classification of the diseases.

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