Boosting diagnosis accuracy of Alzheimer's disease using high dimensional recognition of longitudinal brain atrophy patterns.

Journal: Behavioural brain research
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Boosting accuracy in automatically discriminating patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and normal controls (NC), based on multidimensional classification of longitudinal whole brain atrophy rates and their intermediate counterparts in analyzing magnetic resonance images (MRI).

Authors

  • Ali Farzan
    Faculty of Computer Engineering, IAU, Shabestar Branch, Iran. Electronic address: alifarzanam@gmail.com.
  • Syansiah Mashohor
    Department of Computer & Communication Systems, Faculty of Engineering, University of Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; Institute of Advanced Technology, UPM, Malaysia.
  • Abd Rahman Ramli
    Department of Computer & Communication Systems, Faculty of Engineering, University of Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
  • Rozi Mahmud
    Faculty of Radiology, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400 Serdang, Selangor D.E., Malaysia.