Coral reefs belong to the marine ecosystems and host the richest biodiversity of marine organisms. Coral reefs are formed as a result of the symbiotic relationship between the host coral animal and photosynthetic dinoflagellates, namely sp. Coral animals induce the release of carbon fixation products of symbiotic sp.
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible neurodegenerative disorder with progressive impairment of memory and other mental functions. Magnetic resonance images (MRI) have been widely used as an important imaging modality of brain for AD diagnosis and monitoring the disease progression. The longitudinal analysis of sequential MRIs is important to model and measure the progression of the disease along the time axis for more accurate diagnosis.
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Hippocampus is one of the first involved regions in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a prodromal stage of AD. Hippocampal atrophy is a validated, easily accessible, and widely used biomarker for AD diagnosis. Most of existing methods compute the shape and volume features for hippocampus analysis using structural magnetic resonance images (MRI).
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