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International Journal of Neuroscience and Behavioral Science(CEASE PUBLICATION) Vol. 3(3), pp. 25 - 31
DOI: 10.13189/ijnbs.2015.030301
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Study the Behavior of Autistic Patients and Analysis of Amygdala Region of Brain to Explore Autism
Nur-Un-Nahar Nury 1,*, Suraiya Yasmin 2
1 Department of CSE, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
2 Department of CSIT, Bangabandu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Bangladesh
ABSTRACT
Autism is a great concern to the present world. It is a developmental disorder of human brain that occurs in the first 3 years of life. Autism is an assortment of behavioral problems such as restricted happiness, sensory sensitivities and repetitive behaviors. The Amygdala Region (AMG) along with other cortical regions of human brain plays a vital role in socio-emotional behavior in controls and hypoactive in patients with autism. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) shows the young children with autism have a larger amygdala than typically developing children. In pursuing the work, fMRI images of AMG for control and autistic patients are considered as input images for behavior analysis. Four categories of fixation such as, Neutral-fixation, Happy-fixation, Sad-fixation, and Fearful-fixation are considered. Initially, the fMRI images are processed for segmentation using Level Set Method, the produced images of which are further processed for thresholding and morphological operation. The proposed approach has been implemented in MATLAB 9.00. Finally, it has been observed that AMG region of brain is to be hyper functional in autistic patients rather than hypo functional in controlled patients.
KEYWORDS
Autism, fMRI(Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging), AMG(amygdala), Anxiety
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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Nur-Un-Nahar Nury , Suraiya Yasmin , "Study the Behavior of Autistic Patients and Analysis of Amygdala Region of Brain to Explore Autism," International Journal of Neuroscience and Behavioral Science(CEASE PUBLICATION), Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 25 - 31, 2015. DOI: 10.13189/ijnbs.2015.030301.
(b). APA Format:
Nur-Un-Nahar Nury , Suraiya Yasmin (2015). Study the Behavior of Autistic Patients and Analysis of Amygdala Region of Brain to Explore Autism. International Journal of Neuroscience and Behavioral Science(CEASE PUBLICATION), 3(3), 25 - 31. DOI: 10.13189/ijnbs.2015.030301.