Hippocampus Volume Measurement for the determination of MCI

Abstract

This paper has developed a system for early diagnosis of senile dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) by developing software to measure the volume of hippocampus. This software consists of two parts; segmentation and analysis. The segmentation part uses ROI and region growing to segment hippocampus region. On the other hand, the analysis part creates a volume rendering of hippocampus. This software is expected contribute in these research fields for dementia diagnosis and its medication planning.

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“…It focuses on processing an image to bring out important hidden features. Generally, medical microscopy and real-world images often suffer from poor contrast or lack of detail [1][2][3][4]. Thus, image-enhancement techniques are used to manipulate the original images to obtain better results for further image processing and analysis.…”

Semi-automated Approach to Hippocampus Segmentation Using Snake from Brain MRI

“…The hippocampus is an important structure of the human limbic system, which plays an essential role in learning and memory processing. In particular, researchers have shown that abnormalities in the volume and architecture of the hippocampus are associated with a number of neurological and psychiatric illnesses, including mild cognitive impairment (MCI) [3][4], Alzheimer's disease [5][6][7], epilepsy [8], and schizophrenia [9][10][11].…”