From: aysedemirhan12@gmail.com   
      
   Dear Colleagues,   
      
   We are excited to announce, a special issue on Magnetic Resonance Imaging for   
   Early Diagnosis of the Neurodegenerative Disorders in collaboration with the   
   International Journal of Biomedical Imaging. We encourage all interested   
   researchers to submit    
   their manuscripts for consideration.   
      
   Call for Papers   
      
   Magnetic Resonance (MR) plays a crucial role in radiologic imaging for   
   diagnosis, staging, and follow-up studies of the neurological diseases because   
   of the high-quality informative images it provides. Developing new methods for   
   quality improvement of    
   the brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and developing algorithms for early   
   clinical diagnosis are active research areas. New methods and technologies   
   related to the MRI scanners hardware design for neuroimaging are needed to   
   improve the quality of    
   the images. Visual assessment of the MRI is used usually in clinical practice   
   and quantitative analysis are performed with the manually marked images. But   
   the manual methods are subjective, not repetitive, time-consuming, and tiring   
   due to the huge    
   amount of imaging data and the different brightness and contrast of the   
   displaying screens. Therefore, automated methods and tools are required for   
   processing the neuroimage data for the early diagnosis of the ne   
   rodegenerative disorders like tumors,    
   Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, and so forth.   
      
   The goal of this special issue is to present current advances in early   
   diagnosis of the neurodegenerative disorders that use MRI with the   
   state-of-the-art methodologies and devices. Software applications related to   
   the computer-aided diagnosis    
   applications that use brain MRI are welcome. Hardware studies that include MRI   
   technology development and new methods/technologies related to MRI scanners   
   hardware design for neuroimaging are also welcome. Review articles which   
   describe the current state    
   of the art are encouraged. Usage of the standardized datasets for validation   
   is strongly encouraged with the authors’ own datasets.   
      
   Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:   
      
   ·         Segmentation applications for early diagnosis of the    
   eurodegenerative disorders   
      
   ·         Classification applications for early diagnosis of the   
   neurodegenerative disorders   
      
   ·         Supervised and unsupervised machine learning applications for early   
   diagnosis of the neurodegenerative disorders   
      
   ·         Pattern recognition applications for early diagnosis of the   
   neurodegenerative disorders   
      
   ·         MRI biomarker discovery methods for early diagnosis of the   
   neurodegenerative disorders   
      
   ·         Development of MRI methods and hardware to improve neuroimaging   
      
   Authors can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking System at   
   https://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/ijbi/sohan/.   
      
   Submission Deadline   
      
   Friday, 20 July 2018   
      
   Publication Date   
      
   December 2018   
      
   Papers are published upon acceptance, regardless of the Special Issue   
   publication date.   
      
   Lead Guest Editor   
      
   ·         İnan Güler, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey   
      
   Guest Editors   
      
   ·         Ayşe Demirhan, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey   
      
   ·         Pinar S Ozbay, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA   
      
   ·         Abdullah Toprak, Dicle University, Diyarbakır, Turkey   
      
   ·         Ozlem Ipek, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),   
   Lausanne, Switzerland   
      
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