Neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s disease have a significant impact on the lives and health of the elderly as the aging population con-tinues to grow.Doctors can achieve effective prevention and treatment of Al...Neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s disease have a significant impact on the lives and health of the elderly as the aging population con-tinues to grow.Doctors can achieve effective prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease according to the morphological volume of hippocam-pus.General segmentation techniques frequently fail to produce satisfactory results due to hippocampus’s small size,complex structure,and fuzzy edges.We develop a new SC-Net model using complete brain MRI images to achieve high-precision segmentation of hippocampal structures.The proposed network improves the accuracy of hippocampal structural segmentation by retaining the original location information of the hippocampus.Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed SC-Net model is signif-icantly better than other models,and reaches a Dice similarity coefficient of 0.885 on Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative(ADNI)dataset.展开更多
文摘Neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s disease have a significant impact on the lives and health of the elderly as the aging population con-tinues to grow.Doctors can achieve effective prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease according to the morphological volume of hippocam-pus.General segmentation techniques frequently fail to produce satisfactory results due to hippocampus’s small size,complex structure,and fuzzy edges.We develop a new SC-Net model using complete brain MRI images to achieve high-precision segmentation of hippocampal structures.The proposed network improves the accuracy of hippocampal structural segmentation by retaining the original location information of the hippocampus.Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed SC-Net model is signif-icantly better than other models,and reaches a Dice similarity coefficient of 0.885 on Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative(ADNI)dataset.