Performance Evaluation of Age Estimation from T1-Weighted Images Using Brain Local Features and CNN

The age of a subject can be estimated from the brain MR image by evaluating morphological changes in healthy aging. We consider using two-types of local features to estimate the age from T1-weighted images: handcrafted and automatically extracted features in this paper. The handcrafted brain local f...

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Published inConference proceedings (IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conf.) Vol. 2018; pp. 694 - 697
Main Authors Ito, Koichi, Fujimoto, Ryuichi, Tzu-Wei Huang, Hwann-Tzong Chen, Kai Wu, Sato, Kazunori, Taki, Yasuyuki, Fukuda, Hiroshi, Aoki, Takafumi
Format Conference Proceeding Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States IEEE 01.07.2018
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ISSN1557-170X
1558-4615
DOI10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512443

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Summary:The age of a subject can be estimated from the brain MR image by evaluating morphological changes in healthy aging. We consider using two-types of local features to estimate the age from T1-weighted images: handcrafted and automatically extracted features in this paper. The handcrafted brain local features are defined by volumes of brain tissues parcellated into 90 or 1,024 local regions defined by the automated anatomical labeling atlas. The automatically extracted features are obtained by using the convolutional neural network (CNN). This paper explores the difference between the handcrafted features and the automatically extracted features. Through a set of experiments using 1,099 T1-weighted images from a Japanese MR image database, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods, analyze the effectiveness of each local region for age estimation and discuss its medical implication.
ISSN:1557-170X
1558-4615
DOI:10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512443