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Sarhadi M, Shayegan M A. Hippocampal Atrophy Studying in Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis Using Brain MRI Images. payavard 2021; 15 (1) :39-54
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1- Master of Science in Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran
2- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer, Faculty of Engineering, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran ,Shayegan@iaushiraz.ac.ir
2- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer, Faculty of Engineering, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran ,
Abstract: (2057 Views)
Background and Aim: For effective treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD), it is important to accurately diagnosis of AD and its earlier stage, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). One of the most important approaches of early detection of AD is to measure atrophy, which uses various kinds of brain scans, such as MRI. The main objective of the current research was to provide a computerized diagnostic system for early diagnosis of AD, using leraning machine algorithms, to help physicians. The proposed system diagnoses AD by examining the hippocampal atrophy of brain MRI images and increases the accuracy of the diagnosis.
Materials and Methods: In this study, hippocampus was segmented from the other parts of the brain by using active contour and convolutional neural network and then, three groups of “Normal Controls: NC”, AD and MCI were classified by using the SVM classifier.
Results: The proposed method has succeeded in classifying AD against NC with 98.77%, 98.74% and 97.96% in average for accuracy, sensitivity and specificity, respectively. Also in classification of MCI against NC, the mean accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of 96.14%, 96.23% and 88.21% were achieved, respectively. Compared with the nearest rival method, the proposed method showed improvement accuracy and sensitivity of classification AD from NC with 1.64% and 2.81% respectively. Also, in classification of MCI from NC it showed improvement for accuracy with 8.9% and sensitivity with 2.16%, respectively. Improving in results were due to the use of a modified ACM segmentation algorithm, the use of a combination of features extracted from hippocampal images and features already created by the ImageNet network, the removal of inappropriate features from the feature vector, and the use of deep Inception v3 network.
Concolusion: Based on the results, the combination of polygon surrounding the hippocampus features and deep network features can be useful for detection of AD and MCI.
Materials and Methods: In this study, hippocampus was segmented from the other parts of the brain by using active contour and convolutional neural network and then, three groups of “Normal Controls: NC”, AD and MCI were classified by using the SVM classifier.
Results: The proposed method has succeeded in classifying AD against NC with 98.77%, 98.74% and 97.96% in average for accuracy, sensitivity and specificity, respectively. Also in classification of MCI against NC, the mean accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of 96.14%, 96.23% and 88.21% were achieved, respectively. Compared with the nearest rival method, the proposed method showed improvement accuracy and sensitivity of classification AD from NC with 1.64% and 2.81% respectively. Also, in classification of MCI from NC it showed improvement for accuracy with 8.9% and sensitivity with 2.16%, respectively. Improving in results were due to the use of a modified ACM segmentation algorithm, the use of a combination of features extracted from hippocampal images and features already created by the ImageNet network, the removal of inappropriate features from the feature vector, and the use of deep Inception v3 network.
Concolusion: Based on the results, the combination of polygon surrounding the hippocampus features and deep network features can be useful for detection of AD and MCI.
Keywords: Alzheimer's Disease, Atrophy, Hippocampus, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Convolutional Neural Network
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