Title :
Advanced systems in medical decision-making using intelligent computing. Application to magnetic resonance imaging
Author :
Jaramillo, David ; Rojas, Ignacio ; Valenzuela, Olga ; García, Ignacio ; Prieto, Alberto
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Archit. & Comput. Technol., Univ. of Granada, Granada, Spain
Abstract :
There are several dementias but Alzheimer´s Disease (AD) is leading cause of dementia in the world. In this paper, a new methodology for classification of MR images is proposed, using a large data base (more than one thousand patient). We have two main objectives in this paper: a first one where a classification method is developed to classify MR images as either normal or with the Alzheimer´s disease and a second which is the ambitious goal of this study, the identification and classification between normal subjects, MCI patients and AD patients. It is noteworthy that with this last study we could offer a tool to assist the early diagnosis of dementia.
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; decision support systems; diseases; image classification; medical image processing; AD patients; Alzheimer disease; MCI patients; MR image classification; dementia diagnosis; intelligent computing; magnetic resonance imaging; medical decision-making; Accuracy; Atrophy; Dementia; Feature extraction; Kernel; Support vector machines; Alzheimer´s Disease (AD); Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI); Neuroimaging; Principal Component Analysis (PCA); Support Vector Machine (SVM); Wavelets;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks (IJCNN), The 2012 International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brisbane, QLD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1488-6
Electronic_ISBN :
2161-4393
DOI :
10.1109/IJCNN.2012.6252575
