Chang Gung University

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou

Chang Gung Medical Foundation Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung

Change Gung Medical Foundation Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung

Chin-Song Lu

Jiun-Jie Wang

Yi-Hsin Weng

Shu-Hang Ng

Wey-Yil Lin

Yi-Chun Chen

Yi-Ming Wu

Jur-Shan Cheng

Yao-Liang Chen

Wen-Chuin Hsu

Chia-Ling Chen

Sung-Han Lin

Chih-Chien Tsai

Yau-Yau Wai

Ren-Hsiang Hsieh

Yung-Liang Wan

A method for predicting clinical severity of a neurological disorder includes steps of: a) identifying, according to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image of a brain, brain image regions each of which contains a respective portion of diffusion index values of a diffusion index, which results from image processing performed on the MRI image; b) for one of the brain image regions, calculating a characteristic parameter based on the respective portion of the diffusion index values; and c) calculating a severity score that represents the clinical severity of the neurological disorder of the brain based on the characteristic parameter of the one of the brain image regions via a prediction model associated with the neurological disorder.

Method for predicting clinical severity of a neurological disorder by magnetic resonance imaging

Disclosed herein is a method for diagnosing a neurological disorder based on at least one magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image. The method includes identifying brain image regions that contain a respective portion of diffusion index values of at least one diffusion index. For each of the brain image regions, a characteristic parameter based on the respective portion of the diffusion index values is calculated. a diagnoses is then made for the brain using one of predetermined categories of the neurological disorder by performing classification on a combination of the characteristic parameters via a classifier.

Method for diagnosing neurological disorder by magnetic resonance imaging

The invention relates to the use of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) in the diagnosis of Parkinson Disease related neurodegenerative disorders, including (but not limited to) Parkinson's disease (PD) and Parkinson plus syndromes.

Method for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorder by using diffusion kurtosis imaging

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