Intelligent automated brain image segmentation
by F.L. Seixas, A. Conci, D.C. Muchaluat-Saade, A.S. De Souza
International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications (IJICA), Vol. 2, No. 1, 2009

Abstract: The availability of modern computational techniques and advanced medical imaging protocols has increased the development of computer-aided diagnosis systems. This paper presents a fully automated brain structures segmentation algorithm for magnetic resonance (MR) images. Automated mechanisms reduce the excessive time consumed on manual segmentation and standardise the volumetric acquisition method. The proposed computational image segmentation method is based on a voxel-wise morphometry method, named voxel-based morphometry (VBM). The brain structure of interest of this paper is the hippocampus, a medial temporal lobe structure, precociously affected in Alzheimer's disease (AD), which represents the most common cause of dementia worldwide. We evaluated 371 subjects from OASIS database, including normal controls and probable Alzheimer's patients, splitting them in different age groups. Segmentation results demonstrated that grey matter and hippocampus volumes decrease in both groups proportionally to aging and it is more evident in AD subjects.

Online publication date: Wed, 26-Aug-2009

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