Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 47, Issue 2 , Pages 147-158 , October 2009

Differential automatic diagnosis between Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia based on perfusion SPECT images

  • Jean-François Horn

      Affiliations

    • INSERM, U678, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, 91 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, UMR S678, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, 91 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: INSERM, U678, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, 91 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France. Tel.: +33 1 53 82 84 07; fax: +33 1 53 82 84 46.
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  • Marie-Odile Habert

      Affiliations

    • Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, UMR S678, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, 91 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • Département de Médecine Nucléaire, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, 47-83 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • INSERM, U678, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, 91 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • ,
  • Aurélie Kas

      Affiliations

    • Département de Médecine Nucléaire, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, 47-83 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • URA CNRS-CEA 2210, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, 4 place du Général Leclerc, 91401 Orsay, France
    • ,
  • Zoulikha Malek

      Affiliations

    • Département de Médecine Nucléaire, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, 47-83 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • ,
  • Philippe Maksud

      Affiliations

    • Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, UMR S678, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, 91 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • Département de Médecine Nucléaire, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, 47-83 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • INSERM, U678, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, 91 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • ,
  • Lucette Lacomblez

      Affiliations

    • Fédération des Maladies du Système Nerveux, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, 47-83 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75651 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • Département de pharmacologie, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, 91 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • ,
  • Alain Giron

      Affiliations

    • INSERM, U678, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, 91 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, UMR S678, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, 91 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • ,
  • Bernard Fertil

      Affiliations

    • INSERM, U678, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, 91 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, UMR S678, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, 91 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • Laboratoire LSIS (UMR CNRS 6168) - Equipe I&M (ESIL), case 925 - 163 avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France

Received 11 April 2008 ,Revised 8 February 2009 ,Accepted 3 May 2009.

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PII: S0933-3657(09)00078-5

doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2009.05.001

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 47, Issue 2 , Pages 147-158 , October 2009

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