Study of Tissue Variation and Analysis of MR Brain Images using Optimized Multilevel Threshold and Deep CNN Features in Neurodegenerative Disorders.

Abstract

Dementia is a degenerative irreversible disorder that globally causes a high socio-economic burden. The pathology progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer diseases (AD) are correlated with each other. There is a need to examine the pathology variation to discriminate the disorder to provide appropriate treatment strategies. This study investigates about the brain tissue variations to identify the subtle change in progression. The considered normal, MCI and AD magnetic resonance (MR) images are obtained from Alzheimer's disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). In this work, multilevel Tsallis based grey wolf optimization (GWO) is used to segment the brain tissues. Then the feature is extracted from segmented white matter (WM), grey matter (GM) and cerebro spinal fluid (CSF) using convolution neural network (CNN). The obtained deep features are given to principal component analysis (PCA) to obtain a prominent feature set for normal, MCI and AD. Further the tissue variation of optimized deep features is analyzed using support vector machine (SVM). The results shows that Tsallis based GWO perform reliable tissue segmentation for normal, MCI and AD. The deep features are able to observe discrimination than the fully considered feature set. Finally, the classifier result shows distinct tissue variation among normal, MCI and AD subjects. Further the prominent features give a classification accuracy of 77%, 80.22% and 78.7% for WM, GM and CSF respectively. This concludes that GM variation is a close biological substrate of dementia progressive condition than the effects of time or aging. Thus, the proposed framework can be used as an effective system for diagnosis of progression in neurodegenerative disorders.