Segmenting Alzheimer's Disease MRI Slices for Hippocampal Volume Calculation

Alzheimer's is a neurodegenerative disease that quietly steals human memory. This study analyzed hippocampal volume in Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and Normal Cognition (NC) using MRI image slices from the ADNI database and YOLOv8 instance segmentation. We used 300 images to segment the left and right hippocampal. This study focused on volume calculation from five MRI image slices. The results showed 0.98 (AD), 0.92 (MCI), and 0.90 (NC) and revealed significant volumetric differences showed in the NC class (P = 0.045). This suggests early neuroanatomical changes can occur without cognitive symptoms, highlighting the potential of deep learning in the early detection of neurodegenerative diseases.