Parkinson’s Disease Detection and Diagnosis from fMRI: A Literature Review

Abstract

AbstractParkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative and movement disorder affecting different groups of people, especially the aging community. According to research studies, a noticeable cause of PD is early and progressive deterioration of dopaminergic neurons in the Substantia Nigra Pars compacta (SNc). PD diagnosis from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI) seems to offer promising results. However, comprehensive studies are needed to explore various brain atlases and their effects on accurate anomaly detection in substantia nigra basal ganglia. In this survey paper, we present the recent related works in automatic PD diagnosis using fMRI data. Our goal is to study and compare various automatic PD detection algorithms, bring up the current limitations and challenges in the literature and highlight the future possibilities to further improve this research area.KeywordsParkinson’s disease detectionNeurodegenerative disorderNeuroimaging techniquesMRIfMRI