Convolutional Neural Networks for the segmentation of hippocampal structures in postmortem MRI scans.

The hippocampus plays a crucial role in memory and is one of the first structures affected by Alzheimer’s disease. Postmortem MRI offers a way to quantify the alterations by measuring the atrophy of the inner structures of the hippocampus. Unfortunately, the manual segmentation of hippocampal subregions required to carry out these measures is very time-consuming.