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14 Chapter 1 Introduction<br />

Figure 1.6: Coronal section of Alzheimer’s brain with mild ventricular dilatation,<br />

<strong>and</strong> hippocampal atrophy (arrow). Image modified from Barkhof et al.<br />

(2011).<br />

down in mo<strong>de</strong>rate AD (Frisoni et al., 2009). The structural markers are more<br />

sensitive to the change from MCI to <strong>de</strong>mentia in AD.<br />

1.2 Plan of the thesis<br />

In the following chapters, this thesis will discuss the topics on MR image segmen-<br />

tation, shape mo<strong>de</strong>ling of biological objects, the shape analysis of hippocampus,<br />

<strong>and</strong> the <strong>de</strong>tection of the hippocampal shape changes in AD.<br />

In Chapter 2, the relevant literature on the segmentation of hippocampus, espe-<br />

cially the <strong>de</strong>velopment of atlas-based methods, the statistical mo<strong>de</strong>ling of shapes,

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