Abstract
The absence of an effective cure to Parkinson as a neurodegenerative disease calls for early diagnosis and appropriate therapeutic process to provide patients with better quality of treatment. Therefore, to diagnose Parkinson’s Disease (PD) at its early stage, clinicians rely on visual observation of dopaminergic deficit in both caudate and putamen in the striatum region of the brain. SPECT images (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) are among functional neuroimaging scans that can show putamen and caudate, and hence help visualizing Dopamine deficit. In this work, we developed an automatic SPECT image model to classify patients as Healthy Control (HC) or Early PD, starting from Dicom SPECT images from PPMI (Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative) database to Machine learning classification. The approach we proposed starts with image processing of SPECT images, then extraction of boundary, radial, Striatal Binding Ratio (SBR) and threshold features, then classification using Support Vector Machine (SVM). To the best of our knowledge, no work in the literature has used this combination of the mentioned features together in the classification model. The use of this combination demonstrates promising results. We used a database of 526 images, with 130 HC and 396 PD. The results of our approach show that the Medium Gaussian SVM has a high performance with an accuracy of 97.3%, sensitivity of 95.3%, and specificity of 98%.
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Boucherouite, J., Jilbab, A., Jbari, A. (2022). Automatic SPECT Image Processing for Parkinson’s Disease Early Detection. In: Hamlich, M., Bellatreche, L., Siadat, A., Ventura, S. (eds) Smart Applications and Data Analysis. SADASC 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1677. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20490-6_2
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