1 Basics of Pathological Brain Detection (PBD) -- 2 Neuroimaging Modalities: Strengths and Weaknesses -- 3 Image Preprocessing for Pathological Brain Detection: A Summary -- 4 Canonical Feature Extraction Methods for Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- 5 Multi-scale and Multi-resolution Features for Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- 6 Dimensionality Reduction of Brain Image Features -- 7 Classification Methods for Pathological Brain Detection -- 8 Weight Optimization of Classifiers for Pathological Brain Detection -- 9 Comparison of Current PBD Systems.