Textural content in 3T MR: an image-based marker for Alzheimer's disease

S. V. Bharath Kumar; Rakesh Mullick; Uday Patil

doi:10.1117/12.596086

29 April 2005 Textural content in 3T MR: an image-based marker for Alzheimer's disease

S. V. Bharath Kumar, Rakesh Mullick, Uday Patil

Proceedings Volume 5747, Medical Imaging 2005: Image Processing; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.596086
Event: Medical Imaging, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a study, which investigates the first-order and second-order distributions of T₂ images from a magnetic resonance (MR) scan for an age-matched data set of 24 Alzheimer's disease and 17 normal patients. The study is motivated by the desire to analyze the brain iron uptake in the hippocampus of Alzheimer's patients, which is captured by low T₂ values. Since, excess iron deposition occurs locally in certain regions of the brain, we are motivated to investigate the spatial distribution of T₂, which is captured by higher-order statistics. Based on the first-order and second-order distributions (involving gray level co-occurrence matrix) of T₂, we show that the second-order statistics provide features with sensitivity >90% (at 80% specificity), which in turn capture the textural content in T₂ data. Hence, we argue that different texture characteristics of T₂ in the hippocampus for Alzheimer's and normal patients could be used as an early indicator of Alzheimer's disease.

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S. V. Bharath Kumar, Rakesh Mullick, and Uday Patil "Textural content in 3T MR: an image-based marker for Alzheimer's disease", Proc. SPIE 5747, Medical Imaging 2005: Image Processing, (29 April 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.596086

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