scholarly journals A symmetry based anomaly detection in brain using cellular automata for computer aided diagnosis

Author(s):  
Nisha V M ◽  
L Jeganathan

Computer aided diagnosis (CAD) is an advancing technology in medical imaging. CAD acts as an additional computing power for doctors to interpret the medical images which leads to a more accurate diagnosis of the disease.CAD system increases the chances of detection of brain lesions by assisting the physicians in decreasing the observational oversight in the early stage of diseases.This paper focuses on the development of a cellular automata based model to find the anomaly prone areas in human brains.Because of the bilateral symmetric nature of human brain, a symmetry based cellular automata model is proposed.An algorithm is designed based on the proposed model to detect the anomaly prone areas in brain images. The proposed model can be a standalone model or it can be incorporated to a sophisticated computer aided diagnosis system. By incorporating asymmetry information into a computer aided diagnosis system, enhances its performance in identifying the anomalies exists in bilaterally symmetrical brain images.

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (16) ◽  
pp. 5416
Author(s):  
Fatma El-Zahraa A. El-Gamal ◽  
Mohammed Elmogy ◽  
Ali Mahmoud ◽  
Ahmed Shalaby ◽  
Andrew E. Switala ◽  
...  

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that targets the central nervous system (CNS). Statistics show that more than five million people in America face this disease. Several factors hinder diagnosis at an early stage, in particular, the divergence of 10–15 years between the onset of the underlying neuropathological changes and patients becoming symptomatic. This study surveyed patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), who were at risk of conversion to AD, with a local/regional-based computer-aided diagnosis system. The described system allowed for visualization of the disorder’s effect on cerebral cortical regions individually. The CAD system consists of four steps: (1) preprocess the scans and extract the cortex, (2) reconstruct the cortex and extract shape-based features, (3) fuse the extracted features, and (4) perform two levels of diagnosis: cortical region-based followed by global. The experimental results showed an encouraging performance of the proposed system when compared with related work, with a maximum accuracy of 86.30%, specificity 88.33%, and sensitivity 84.88%. Behavioral and cognitive correlations identified brain regions involved in language, executive function/cognition, and memory in MCI subjects, which regions are also involved in the neuropathology of AD.


2021 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 102914
Author(s):  
Raouia Mokni ◽  
Norhene Gargouri ◽  
Alima Damak ◽  
Dorra Sellami ◽  
Wiem Feki ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Calle-Alonso ◽  
C.J. Pérez ◽  
J.P. Arias-Nicolás ◽  
J. Martín

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