• DocumentCode
    2487758
  • Title

    MRI and PET combined analysis of the medial temporal lobe

  • Author

    Bosco, Paolo ; Chincarini, Andrea ; Esposito, Mario ; Rei, Luca ; Ovando, Cèsare

  • Author_Institution
    Ist. Naz. di Fis. Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    30-31 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    391
  • Lastpage
    394
  • Abstract
    In this work we present a method for the combined analysis of MR and PET images for the early assessment of Alzheimer´s disease. This method is fully automatic and can get local structural and functional information from brain scans. By combining functional information with those provided by structural MRI modality, it is possible to improve the ability to discriminate between healthy and diseased patients.
  • Keywords
    biomedical MRI; brain; diseases; image classification; medical image processing; positron emission tomography; Alzheimer disease; MRI-PET combined image analysis; brain scans; functional information; image classification; medial temporal lobe; structural information; Alzheimer´s disease; Atrophy; Biomedical imaging; Indexes; Magnetic resonance imaging; Positron emission tomography; Temporal lobe;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Medical Measurements and Applications Proceedings (MeMeA), 2011 IEEE International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Bari
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-9336-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MeMeA.2011.5966721
  • Filename
    5966721