Evaluation of Alzheimer's Disease by Analysis of MR Images using Multilayer Perceptrons and Kohonen SOM Classifiers as an Alternative to the ADC Maps

Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos, Ricardo Emmanuel de Souza, Plínio B. dos Santos Filho

Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, yet hard to diagnose precisely without invasive techniques, particularly at the onset of the disease. This work approaches…