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Autism is a neuro developmental disorder that affects the social interaction and communication skills of the children. It is characterized by repetitive behavior, lack of eye contact and unusual facial expressions. Corpus Callosum (CC) is the largest white matter area in the central nervous system that helps in transmission of information between both the hemispheres of brain. In autism kids, CC in the brain region shrinks and shape variations occur, making it as the region of interest with respect to diagnosis of autism disorder. Though there are many methods to segment and classify CC, there is still a need for accurate segmentation and automatic classification of CC. Since CC shares similar intensity and close proximity to other parts of the brain, segmentation of only CC region becomes challenging. To address this challenge, in the proposed work level set segmentation technique is used to segment Corpus callosum and the segmented images are validated against the ground truth using jaccard and dice index. From the segmented images geometric, texture and statistical features are extracted. Feature reduction methods such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Independent Component Analysis (ICA) are incorporated for selecting the most significant set of features. Machine learning algorithms such as Support vector machine (SVM) and Extreme learning machine (ELM) are proposed to classify the image as normal and abnormal. The proposed algorithm demonstrates the classification accuracy of 97% and 96.5% using SVM and ELM respectively.
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Ramanathan, A., Christy Bobby, T. (2020). Classification of Corpus Callosum Layer in Mid-saggital MRI Images Using Machine Learning Techniques for Autism Disorder. In: Saha, S., Nagaraj, N., Tripathi, S. (eds) Modeling, Machine Learning and Astronomy. MMLA 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1290. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6463-9_7
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