TY  - CONF
AU  - Laura Igual
AU  - Joan Carles Soliva
AU  - Roger Gimeno
AU  - Sergio Escalera
AU  - Oscar Vilarroya
AU  - Petia Radeva
A2  - ICIAR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Automatic Internal Segmentation of Caudate Nucleus for Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
T2  - LNCS
BT  - 9th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
SP  - 222
EP  - 229
VL  - 7325
IS  - II
N2  - PosterStudies on volumetric brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) showed neuroanatomical abnormalities in pediatric Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). In particular, the diminished right caudate volume is one of the most replicated findings among ADHD samples in morphometric MRI studies. In this paper, we propose a fully-automatic method for internal caudate nucleus segmentation based on machine learning. Moreover, the ratio between right caudate body volume and the bilateral caudate body volume is applied in a ADHD diagnostic test. We separately validate the automatic internal segmentation of caudate in head and body structures and the diagnostic test using real data from ADHD and control subjects. As a result, we show accurate internal caudate segmentation and similar performance among the proposed automatic diagnostic test and the manual annotation.
SN  - 0302-9743
SN  - 978-3-642-31297-7
L1  - http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/ISG2012.pdf
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31298-4_27
N1  - OR; HuPBA; MILAB
ID  - Laura Igual2012
ER  -