Early detection of Alzheimer's disease in structural and functional MRI

To implement state-of-the-art deep learning architectures such as Deep-Residual-U-Net and DeepLabV3+ for precise segmentation of hippocampus and ventricles, in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Integrate VGG-16 with Random Forest (VGG-16-RF) and VGG-16 with Support Vector Machine (VGG-16-SVM) to enhance the binary classification accuracy of Alzheimer's disease, comparing their performance against traditional classifiers.

OpenNeuro and Harvard's Data verse provides Alzheimer's coronal functional MRI data. Ventricles and hippocampus are segmented using a Deep-Residual-UNet and Deep labV3+ system. The functional features were extracted from each segmented component and classified using SVM, Adaboost, Logistic regression, and VGG 16, DenseNet-169, VGG-16-RF, and VGG-16-SVM classifier.

This research proposes a precise and efficient deep-learning architecture like DeepLab V3+ and Deep Residual U-NET for hippocampus and ventricle segmentation in detection of AD. DeepLab V3+ has produced a good segmentation accuracy of 94.62% with Jaccard co-efficient of 85.5% and dice co-efficient of 84.75%. Among the three ML classifiers used, SVM has provided a good accuracy of 93%. Among some DL techniques, VGG-16-RF classifier has given better accuracy of 96.87%.

The novelty of this work lies in the seamless integration of advanced segmentation techniques with hybrid classifiers, offering a robust and scalable framework for early AD detection. The proposed study demonstrates a significant advancement in the early detection of Alzheimer's disease by integrating state-of-the-art deep learning models and comprehensive functional connectivity analysis. This early detection capability is crucial for timely intervention and better management of the disease in neurodegenerative disorder diagnostics.