JCSE, vol. 17, no. 3, pp.135-143, 2023

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5626/JCSE.2023.17.3.135

An Efficient Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Diagnostic Technique Based on Multi-Regional Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Vasily Sachnev and B. S. Mahanand
School of Information, Communication and Electronics Engineering, Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Korea Department of Information Science and Engineering, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, JSS Science and Technology University, Mysuru, India

Abstract: In this paper, an efficient technique for the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was proposed. The proposed method used features/voxels extracted from structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of seven brain regions and efficiently classified three subtypes of ADHD: ADHD-C, ADHD-H, and ADHD-I, as well as the typically developing control (TDC). Training and testing data for experiments were obtained from ADHD-200 database, and 41,721 features/voxels were extracted from sMRI by using region-of-interest (ROI). The proposed ADHD diagnostic technique built an efficient ADHD classifier in two steps. In the first step, a proposed regional voxels selection method (rVSM) selected an optimal set of features/voxels from seven brain regions available in ADHD-200, i.e., the Amygdala, Caudate, Cerebellar Vermis, Corpus Callosum, Hippocampus, Striatum, and Thalamus. In the second step, voxels/features selected by rVSM were used together to form unified set of voxels. The unified set of voxels was used by a multiregion voxels selection method to train an efficient classifier using the extreme learning machine (ELM). Finally, the proposed method selected a unique set of voxels from the seven brain regions and built a final ELM classifier with maximum accuracy. Experiments clearly indicated that the proposed method produced better results compared to existing methods.

Keyword: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; ADHD-200; MRI; Voxels selection method; Extreme learning machine

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