When diagnosing patients suffering from dementia based on imaging data like PET scans, the identification of suitable predictive regions of interest (ROIs) is of great importance. We present a case study of 3-D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for the detection of ROIs in this context, just using voxel data, without any knowledge given a priori. Our results on data from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) suggest that the predictive performance of the method is on par with that of state-of-the-art methods, with the additional benefit of potential insights into affected brain regions.
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Karwath, A., Hubrich, M., & Kramer, S. (2017). Convolutional neural networks for the identification of regions of interest in PET scans: A study of representation learning for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 10259 LNAI, pp. 316–321). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59758-4_36
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