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The aim of this work was to develop and evaluate an automatic segmentation tool (DeepHarp) for hippocampus delineation according to the ADNI harmonized hippocampal protocol (HarP). DeepHarp utilizes a two-step process. First, the approximate location of the hippocampus is identified in T1-weighted MRI datasets using an atlas-based approach, which is used to crop the images to a region-of-interest (ROI) containing the hippocampus. In the second step, a convolutional neural network trained using datasets with corresponding manual hippocampus annotations is used to segment the hippocampus from the cropped ROI. The proposed method was developed and validated using 107 datasets with manually segmented hippocampi according to the ADNI-HarP standard as well as 114 multi-center datasets of patients with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, mild cognitive impairment, cerebrovascular disease, and healthy controls. Twenty-three independent datasets manually segmented according to the ADNI-HarP protocol were used for testing to assess the accuracy, while an independent test-retest dataset was used to assess precision. The proposed DeepHarp method achieved a mean Dice similarity score of 0.88, which was significantly better than four other established hippocampus segmentation methods used for comparison. At the same time, the proposed method also achieved a high test-retest precision (mean Dice score: 0.95). 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