Detection of subjects and brain regions related to Alzheimer's disease using 3D MRI scans based on eigenbrain and machine learning

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue JUNE, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Yudong ^a   Dong, Zhengchao ^b   Phillips, Preetha ^c   Wang, Shuihua ^a,d   Ji, Genlin ^a   Yang, Jiquan ^a   Yuan, Ti Fei ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Eigenbrain; Machine learning; Machine vision; Magnetic resonance imaging; Particle swarm optimization; Support vector machine; Welch's t test

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER VISION; DISEASE CONTROL; FORECASTING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ALZHEIMERS DISEASE; EIGENBRAIN; MACHINE-LEARNING; MACHINE-VISION; PARTICLE SWARM; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE; SWARM OPTIMIZATION; T-TESTS; WELCH T-TEST;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LATERAL VENTRICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLAUSTRUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EIGENBRAIN; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSULA; KERNEL METHOD; LENTIFORM NUCLEUS; LINEAR KERNEL; LINGUAL GYRUS; MACHINE LEARNING; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MOST IMPORTANT EIGENBRAIN; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARACENTRAL LOBULE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIAL KERNEL; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION KERNEL; SUBCALLOSAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; THALAMUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSVERSE TEMPORAL GYRUS; UNCUS;

EID: 84930681763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2015.00066     Document Type: Article

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