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Abstract #3586

Fully Automated Hippocampus Segmentation Pipeline using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Maximilian Sackl1, Christian Tinauer1, Christian Enzinger1, Reinhold Schmidt1, and Stefan Ropele1
1Department of Neurology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

Synopsis

Keywords: Segmentation, Alzheimer's Disease, Multi-Contrast, AISegmentation of the hippocampus on T1-weighted structural MR images is required to quantify the neurodegenerative effects in Alzheimer’s disease studies. In this work, we propose an automated artificial intelligence-based pipeline for hippocampus segmentation combined with manual ground truth (GT) data that originates from high-resolution T2-weighted MR images. Results are evaluated against the manual GT-labels and compared to the segmentation results from FreeSurfer v732. Our deep learning-based segmentation outperforms FreeSurfer in terms of accuracy and speed, while reference experiments using the T2-based GT-labels yield the best results. Thus, using T2-weighted images for ground truth generation can improve automated HC segmentation.

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