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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a kind of neurological brain disease. It is an irretrievable, neurodegenerative brain disorder. There are no pills or drugs to cure AD. Therefore, an early diagnosis may help the physician to make accurate analysis and to provide better treatment. With the advent of computational intelligence techniques, machine learning models have made tremendous progress in brain images analysis using MRI, SPECT and PEI. However, accurate analysis of brain scans is an extremely challenging task. The main focus of this paper is to design a Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system using Long-Term Short Memory (LSTM) to improve classification rate and determine suitable attributes that can differentiate AD from Healthy Control (HC) subjects. First, 3D PET images are preprocessed, converted into many groups of 2D images and then grouped into many subsets at certain interval. Subsequently, different features including first order statistical, Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix and wavelet energy of all sub-bands are extracted from each group, combined and taken as feature vectors. LSTM is designed and employed for classifying PET brain images into HC and AD subjects based on the feature vectors. Finally, the developed system is validated on 18FDG-PET images collected from 188 subjects including 105 HC and 83 AD subjects from ADNI database. Efficacy of the developed CAD system is analyzed using different features. Numerical results revealed that the developed CAD system yields classification accuracy of 98.9% when using combined features, showing outstanding performance.
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Sherin, A., Rajeswari, R. Computer-Aided Diagnosis System for Alzheimer’s Disease Using Positron Emission Tomography Images. Interdiscip Sci Comput Life Sci 13, 433–442 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12539-020-00409-0
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