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AssigneeHeuron Co., Ltd.
InventorsDong Hoon SHIN, Hwan HEO, Eung Yeop KIM, Young Hee SUNG
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Disclosed are Parkinson's disease diagnosing apparatus and method and a configuration which includes an image acquiring unit which acquires a multi-echo magnitude and a phase image from MRI obtained by capturing a brain of a patient, an image processing unit which post-processes only substantia nigra and a nigrosome-1 region proposed as an imaging biomarker of the Parkinson's disease from the acquired image to be observed; an image analyzing unit which classifies images including the nigrosome-1 region by analyzing the processed images and detects the nigrosome-1 region from the classified image, and a diagnosing unit which determines whether the nigrosome-1 region is normal in the classified image to diagnose the Parkinson's disease is provided so that only the image which includes the nigrosome-1 region is classified in the MRI and the nigrosome-1 region is analyzed from the classified image to diagnose the Parkinson's disease.
A Parkinson's disease diagnosing apparatus, comprising:
A Parkinson's disease diagnosing method which generates a susceptibility map weighted imaging image which includes a nigrosome-1 region proposed as an imaging biomarker of the Parkinson's disease by applying a quantitative susceptibility mapping algorithm to an MRI captured by MRI equipment and analyzes the nigrosome-1 region from the generated image to diagnose the Parkinson's disease.
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