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Kale M, Wankhede N, Pawar R, Ballal S, Kumawat R, Goswami M, Khalid M, Taksande B, Upaganlawar A, Umekar M, Kopalli SR, Koppula S. AI-driven innovations in Alzheimer's disease: Integrating early diagnosis, personalized treatment, and prognostic modelling. Ageing Res Rev 2024; 101:102497. [PMID: 39293530 DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2024.102497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2024] [Revised: 08/14/2024] [Accepted: 09/04/2024] [Indexed: 09/20/2024]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) presents a significant challenge in neurodegenerative research and clinical practice due to its complex etiology and progressive nature. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the diagnosis, treatment, and prognostic modelling of AD holds promising potential to transform the landscape of dementia care. This review explores recent advancements in AI applications across various stages of AD management. In early diagnosis, AI-enhanced neuroimaging techniques, including MRI, PET, and CT scans, enable precise detection of AD biomarkers. Machine learning models analyze these images to identify patterns indicative of early cognitive decline. Additionally, AI algorithms are employed to detect genetic and proteomic biomarkers, facilitating early intervention. Cognitive and behavioral assessments have also benefited from AI, with tools that enhance the accuracy of neuropsychological tests and analyze speech and language patterns for early signs of dementia. Personalized treatment strategies have been revolutionized by AI-driven approaches. In drug discovery, virtual screening and drug repurposing, guided by predictive modelling, accelerate the identification of effective treatments. AI also aids in tailoring therapeutic interventions by predicting individual responses to treatments and monitoring patient progress, allowing for dynamic adjustment of care plans. Prognostic modelling, another critical area, utilizes AI to predict disease progression through longitudinal data analysis and risk prediction models. The integration of multi-modal data, combining clinical, genetic, and imaging information, enhances the accuracy of these predictions. Deep learning techniques are particularly effective in fusing diverse data types to uncover new insights into disease mechanisms and progression. Despite these advancements, challenges remain, including ethical considerations, data privacy, and the need for seamless integration of AI tools into clinical workflows. This review underscores the transformative potential of AI in AD management while highlighting areas for future research and development. By leveraging AI, the healthcare community can improve early diagnosis, personalize treatments, and predict disease outcomes more accurately, ultimately enhancing the quality of life for individuals with AD.
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- Mayur Kale
- Smt. Kishoritai Bhoyar College of Pharmacy, Kamptee, Nagpur, Maharashtra 441002, India.
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- Smt. Kishoritai Bhoyar College of Pharmacy, Kamptee, Nagpur, Maharashtra 441002, India.
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- Smt. Kishoritai Bhoyar College of Pharmacy, Kamptee, Nagpur, Maharashtra 441002, India.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Sciences, JAIN (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
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- Department of Neurology, National Institute of Medical Sciences, NIMS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
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- Chandigarh Pharmacy College, Chandigarh Group of Colleges, Jhanjeri, Mohali, Punjab 140307, India.
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- Department of pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University Alkharj, Saudi Arabia.
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- Smt. Kishoritai Bhoyar College of Pharmacy, Kamptee, Nagpur, Maharashtra 441002, India.
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- SNJB's Shriman Sureshdada Jain College of Pharmacy, Neminagar, Chandwad, Nashik, Maharashtra, India.
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- Smt. Kishoritai Bhoyar College of Pharmacy, Kamptee, Nagpur, Maharashtra 441002, India.
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Sejong University, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05006, Republic of Korea.
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- College of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Konkuk University, Chungju-Si, Chungju-Si, Chungcheongbuk Do 27478, Republic of Korea.
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Jena MK, Mittal S, Pathak B. Precision Basecalling of Single DNA Nucleotide from Overlapped Transmission Readouts with Machine Learning Aided Solid-State Nanogap. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024; 16:29891-29901. [PMID: 38818926 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c04858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2024]
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DNA sequencing with the quantum tunneling technique heralds a paradigm shift in genetic analysis, promising rapid and accurate identification for diverging applications ranging from personalized medicine to security issues. However, the widespread distribution of molecular conductance, conduction orbital alignment for resonant transport, and decoding crisscrossing conductance signals of isomorphic nucleotides have been persistent experimental hurdles for swift and precise identification. Herein, we have reported a machine learning (ML)-driven quantum tunneling study with solid-state model nanogap to determine nucleotides at single-base resolution. The optimized ML basecaller has demonstrated a high predictive basecalling accuracy of all four nucleotides from seven distinct data pools, each containing complex transmission readouts of their different dynamic conformations. ML classification of quaternary, ternary, and binary nucleotide combinations is also performed with high precision, sensitivity, and F1 score. ML explainability unravels the evidence of how extracted normalized features within overlapped nucleotide signals contribute to classification improvement. Moreover, electronic fingerprints, conductance sensitivity, and current readout analysis of nucleotides have promised practical applicability with significant sensitivity and distinguishability. Through this ML approach, our study pushes the boundaries of quantum sequencing by highlighting the effectiveness of single nucleotide basecalling with promising implications for advancing genomics and molecular diagnostics.
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- Milan Kumar Jena
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, Indore Madhya Pradesh 453552, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, Indore Madhya Pradesh 453552, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, Indore Madhya Pradesh 453552, India
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Li Y, Shao Y, Wang J, Liu Y, Yang Y, Wang Z, Xi Q. Machine learning based on functional and structural connectivity in mild cognitive impairment. Magn Reson Imaging 2024; 109:10-17. [PMID: 38408690 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2024.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2023] [Revised: 02/21/2024] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic, degenerative neurological disorder characterized by progressive cognitive decline and mental behavioral abnormalities. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is regarded as a transitional stage in the progression from normal elderly individuals to patients with AD. While studies have identified abnormalities in brain connectivity in patients with MCI, including functional and structural connectivity, accurately identifying patients with MCI in clinical screening remains challenging. We hypothesized that utilizing machine learning (ML) based on both functional and structural connectivity could yield meaningful results in distinguishing between patients with MCI and normal elderly individuals, so as to provide valuable information for early diagnosis and precise evaluation of patients with MCI. METHODS Following clinical criteria, we recruited 32 patients with MCI for the patient group, and 32 normal elderly individuals for the control group. All subjects underwent examinations for resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Subsequently, significant functional and structural connectivity features were selected and combined with a support vector machine for classification of the patient and control groups. RESULTS We observed significantly different functional connectivity in the frontal lobe and putamen between the MCI group and normal controls. The results based on functional connectivity features demonstrated a classification accuracy of 71.88% and an area under the curve (AUC) value of 0.78. In terms of structural connectivity, we found that decreased fractional anisotropy in patients with MCI was significantly associated with Montreal Cognitive Assessment scores, specifically in regions such as the precuneus and cingulate gyrus. The classification results using the structural connectivity feature yielded an accuracy of 92.19% and an AUC value of 0.99. Lastly, combining functional and structural connectivity features resulted in a classification accuracy and AUC value of 93.75% and 0.99, respectively. CONCLUSIONS In this study, we demonstrated a high classification performance, underscoring the potential of both brain functional and structural connectivity in distinguishing patients with MCI from normal elderly individuals. Furthermore, the integration of functional connectivity and structural connectivity features indicated that utilizing rs-fMRI and DTI could enhance the accuracy and specificity of identifying patients with MCI compared with relying on a single neuroimaging technique.
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- Yan Li
- Department of Radiology, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 150 Jimo Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200120, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 150 Jimo Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200120, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 150 Jimo Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200120, China; Department of Radiology, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University, No. 10 Changjiang Branch Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400042, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Donghua University, No. 2999 North Renmin Road, Songjiang Area, Shanghai 200000, China.
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 150 Jimo Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200120, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Donghua University, No. 2999 North Renmin Road, Songjiang Area, Shanghai 200000, China.
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 150 Jimo Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200120, China.
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Seraji M, Ellis CA, Sendi MSE, Miller RL, Calhoun VD. Uncovering Effects of Schizophrenia upon a Maximally Significant, Minimally Complex Subset of Default Mode Network Connectivity Features. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.04.24.590969. [PMID: 38712056 PMCID: PMC11071517 DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.24.590969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2024]
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A common analysis approach for resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) dynamic functional network connectivity (dFNC) data involves clustering windowed correlation time-series and assigning time windows to clusters (i.e., states) that can be quantified to summarize aspects of the dFNC dynamics. However, those methods can be dominated by a select few features and obscure key dynamics related to less dominant features. This study presents an iterative feature learning approach to identify a maximally significant and minimally complex subset of dFNC features within the default mode network (DMN) in schizophrenia (SZ). Utilizing dFNC data from individuals with SZ and healthy controls (HC), our approach uncovers a subset of features that has a greater number of dFNC states with disorder-related dynamics than is found when all features are present in the clustering. We find that anterior cingulate cortex/posterior cingulate cortex (ACC/PCC) interactions are consistently related to SZ across the most significant iterations of the feature learning analysis and that individuals with SZ tend to spend more time in states with greater intra-ACC anticorrelation and almost no time in a state of high intra-ACC correlation that HCs periodically enter. Our findings highlight the need for nuanced analyses to reveal disorder-related dynamics and advance our understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders.
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Zheng K, Yu S, Chen B. CI-GNN: A Granger causality-inspired graph neural network for interpretable brain network-based psychiatric diagnosis. Neural Netw 2024; 172:106147. [PMID: 38306785 DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2024.106147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2023] [Revised: 11/27/2023] [Accepted: 01/23/2024] [Indexed: 02/04/2024]
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There is a recent trend to leverage the power of graph neural networks (GNNs) for brain-network based psychiatric diagnosis, which, in turn, also motivates an urgent need for psychiatrists to fully understand the decision behavior of the used GNNs. However, most of the existing GNN explainers are either post-hoc in which another interpretive model needs to be created to explain a well-trained GNN, or do not consider the causal relationship between the extracted explanation and the decision, such that the explanation itself contains spurious correlations and suffers from weak faithfulness. In this work, we propose a granger causality-inspired graph neural network (CI-GNN), a built-in interpretable model that is able to identify the most influential subgraph (i.e., functional connectivity within brain regions) that is causally related to the decision (e.g., major depressive disorder patients or healthy controls), without the training of an auxillary interpretive network. CI-GNN learns disentangled subgraph-level representations α and β that encode, respectively, the causal and non-causal aspects of original graph under a graph variational autoencoder framework, regularized by a conditional mutual information (CMI) constraint. We theoretically justify the validity of the CMI regulation in capturing the causal relationship. We also empirically evaluate the performance of CI-GNN against three baseline GNNs and four state-of-the-art GNN explainers on synthetic data and three large-scale brain disease datasets. We observe that CI-GNN achieves the best performance in a wide range of metrics and provides more reliable and concise explanations which have clinical evidence. The source code and implementation details of CI-GNN are freely available at GitHub repository (https://github.com/ZKZ-Brain/CI-GNN/).
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- Kaizhong Zheng
- National Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, National Engineering Research Center for Visual Information and Applications, and Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
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- Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Machine Learning Group, UiT - Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
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- National Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, National Engineering Research Center for Visual Information and Applications, and Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
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Nemali A, Vockert N, Berron D, Maas A, Bernal J, Yakupov R, Peters O, Gref D, Cosma N, Preis L, Priller J, Spruth E, Altenstein S, Lohse A, Fliessbach K, Kimmich O, Vogt I, Wiltfang J, Hansen N, Bartels C, Schott BH, Maier F, Meiberth D, Glanz W, Incesoy E, Butryn M, Buerger K, Janowitz D, Pernecky R, Rauchmann B, Burow L, Teipel S, Kilimann I, Göerß D, Dyrba M, Laske C, Munk M, Sanzenbacher C, Müller S, Spottke A, Roy N, Heneka M, Brosseron F, Roeske S, Dobisch L, Ramirez A, Ewers M, Dechent P, Scheffler K, Kleineidam L, Wolfsgruber S, Wagner M, Jessen F, Duzel E, Ziegler G. Gaussian Process-based prediction of memory performance and biomarker status in ageing and Alzheimer's disease-A systematic model evaluation. Med Image Anal 2023; 90:102913. [PMID: 37660483 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2023.102913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2022] [Revised: 06/28/2023] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023]
Abstract
Neuroimaging markers based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) combined with various other measures (such as genetic covariates, biomarkers, vascular risk factors, neuropsychological tests etc.) might provide useful predictions of clinical outcomes during the progression towards Alzheimer's disease (AD). The use of multiple features in predictive frameworks for clinical outcomes has become increasingly prevalent in AD research. However, many studies do not focus on systematically and accurately evaluating combinations of multiple input features. Hence, the aim of the present work is to explore and assess optimal combinations of various features for MR-based prediction of (1) cognitive status and (2) biomarker positivity with a multi-kernel learning Gaussian process framework. The explored features and parameters included (A) combinations of brain tissues, modulation, smoothing, and image resolution; (B) incorporating demographics & clinical covariates; (C) the impact of the size of the training data set; (D) the influence of dimensionality reduction and the choice of kernel types. The approach was tested in a large German cohort including 959 subjects from the multicentric longitudinal study of cognitive impairment and dementia (DELCODE). Our evaluation suggests the best prediction of memory performance was obtained for a combination of neuroimaging markers, demographics, genetic information (ApoE4) and CSF biomarkers explaining 57% of outcome variance in out-of-sample predictions. The highest performance for Aβ42/40 status classification was achieved for a combination of demographics, ApoE4, and a memory score while usage of structural MRI further improved the classification of individual patient's pTau status.
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- A Nemali
- Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany.
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin, Germany; Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Department of Psychiatry, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Department of Psychiatry, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Department of Psychiatry, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Department of Psychiatry, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203, Berlin, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany; School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Munich, Germany; University of Edinburgh and UK DRI, Edinburgh, UK
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany; University of Bonn Medical Center, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease and Geriatric Psychiatry/Psychiatry, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Goettingen, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Goettingen, University of Goettingen, Von-Siebold-Str. 5, 37075 Goettingen, Germany; Neurosciences and Signaling Group, Institute of Biomedicine (iBiMED), Department of Medical Sciences, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Goettingen, University of Goettingen, Von-Siebold-Str. 5, 37075 Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Goettingen, University of Goettingen, Von-Siebold-Str. 5, 37075 Goettingen, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Goettingen, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Goettingen, University of Goettingen, Von-Siebold-Str. 5, 37075 Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cologne, Medical Faculty, Kerpener Strasse 62, 50924 Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cologne, Medical Faculty, Kerpener Strasse 62, 50924 Cologne, Germany
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- Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich), Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 17, 81377 Munich, Germany; Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD), University Hospital, LMU Munich, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 17, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD), University Hospital, LMU Munich, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 17, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich), Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 17, 81377 Munich, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany; Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) Munich, Munich, Germany; Ageing Epidemiology Research Unit (AGE), School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Rostock, Germany; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Rostock University Medical Center, Gehlsheimer Str. 20, 18147 Rostock, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Rostock, Germany; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Rostock University Medical Center, Gehlsheimer Str. 20, 18147 Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Rostock University Medical Center, Gehlsheimer Str. 20, 18147 Rostock, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Rostock, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany; Section for Dementia Research, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research and Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany; Department of Neurology, University of Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany; Department of Neurology, University of Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany; Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann-Strasse 26, 50931 Köln, Germany; Division of Neurogenetics and Molecular Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Department of Psychiatry & Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich), Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 17, 81377 Munich, Germany; Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD), University Hospital, LMU Munich, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 17, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- MR-Research in Neurosciences, Department of Cognitive Neurology, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany
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- Department for Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- University of Bonn Medical Center, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease and Geriatric Psychiatry/Psychiatry, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany; University of Bonn Medical Center, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease and Geriatric Psychiatry/Psychiatry, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany; University of Bonn Medical Center, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease and Geriatric Psychiatry/Psychiatry, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany; Department of Psychiatry, University of Cologne, Medical Faculty, Kerpener Strasse 62, 50924 Cologne, Germany; Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann-Strasse 26, 50931 Köln, Germany
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- Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany
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Yuan C, Linn KA, Hubbard RA. Algorithmic Fairness of Machine Learning Models for Alzheimer Disease Progression. JAMA Netw Open 2023; 6:e2342203. [PMID: 37934495 PMCID: PMC10630899 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.42203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 09/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/08/2023] Open
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Importance Predictive models using machine learning techniques have potential to improve early detection and management of Alzheimer disease (AD). However, these models potentially have biases and may perpetuate or exacerbate existing disparities. Objective To characterize the algorithmic fairness of longitudinal prediction models for AD progression. Design, Setting, and Participants This prognostic study investigated the algorithmic fairness of logistic regression, support vector machines, and recurrent neural networks for predicting progression to mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD using data from participants in the Alzheimer Disease Neuroimaging Initiative evaluated at 57 sites in the US and Canada. Participants aged 54 to 91 years who contributed data on at least 2 visits between September 2005 and May 2017 were included. Data were analyzed in October 2022. Exposures Fairness was quantified across sex, ethnicity, and race groups. Neuropsychological test scores, anatomical features from T1 magnetic resonance imaging, measures extracted from positron emission tomography, and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers were included as predictors. Main Outcomes and Measures Outcome measures quantified fairness of prediction models (logistic regression [LR], support vector machine [SVM], and recurrent neural network [RNN] models), including equal opportunity, equalized odds, and demographic parity. Specifically, if the model exhibited equal sensitivity for all groups, it aligned with the principle of equal opportunity, indicating fairness in predictive performance. Results A total of 1730 participants in the cohort (mean [SD] age, 73.81 [6.92] years; 776 females [44.9%]; 69 Hispanic [4.0%] and 1661 non-Hispanic [96.0%]; 29 Asian [1.7%], 77 Black [4.5%], 1599 White [92.4%], and 25 other race [1.4%]) were included. Sensitivity for predicting progression to MCI and AD was lower for Hispanic participants compared with non-Hispanic participants; the difference (SD) in true positive rate ranged from 20.9% (5.5%) for the RNN model to 27.8% (9.8%) for the SVM model in MCI and 24.1% (5.4%) for the RNN model to 48.2% (17.3%) for the LR model in AD. Sensitivity was similarly lower for Black and Asian participants compared with non-Hispanic White participants; for example, the difference (SD) in AD true positive rate was 14.5% (51.6%) in the LR model, 12.3% (35.1%) in the SVM model, and 28.4% (16.8%) in the RNN model for Black vs White participants, and the difference (SD) in MCI true positive rate was 25.6% (13.1%) in the LR model, 24.3% (13.1%) in the SVM model, and 6.8% (18.7%) in the RNN model for Asian vs White participants. Models generally satisfied metrics of fairness with respect to sex, with no significant differences by group, except for cognitively normal (CN)-MCI and MCI-AD transitions (eg, an absolute increase [SD] in the true positive rate of CN-MCI transitions of 10.3% [27.8%] for the LR model). Conclusions and Relevance In this study, models were accurate in aggregate but failed to satisfy fairness metrics. These findings suggest that fairness should be considered in the development and use of machine learning models for AD progression.
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- Chenxi Yuan
- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Penn Statistics in Imaging and Visualization Endeavor, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Penn Statistics in Imaging and Visualization Endeavor, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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Shahzadi S, Butt NA, Sana MU, Pascual IE, Urbano MB, Díez IDLT, Ashraf I. Voxel Extraction and Multiclass Classification of Identified Brain Regions across Various Stages of Alzheimer's Disease Using Machine Learning Approaches. Diagnostics (Basel) 2023; 13:2871. [PMID: 37761238 PMCID: PMC10527683 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13182871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 08/25/2023] [Accepted: 08/30/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
Abstract
This study sought to investigate how different brain regions are affected by Alzheimer's disease (AD) at various phases of the disease, using independent component analysis (ICA). The study examines six regions in the mild cognitive impairment (MCI) stage, four in the early stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD), six in the moderate stage, and six in the severe stage. The precuneus, cuneus, middle frontal gyri, calcarine cortex, superior medial frontal gyri, and superior frontal gyri were the areas impacted at all phases. A general linear model (GLM) is used to extract the voxels of the previously mentioned regions. The resting fMRI data for 18 AD patients who had advanced from MCI to stage 3 of the disease were obtained from the ADNI public source database. The subjects include eight women and ten men. The voxel dataset is used to train and test ten machine learning algorithms to categorize the MCI, mild, moderate, and severe stages of Alzheimer's disease. The accuracy, recall, precision, and F1 score were used as conventional scoring measures to evaluate the classification outcomes. AdaBoost fared better than the other algorithms and obtained a phenomenal accuracy of 98.61%, precision of 99.00%, and recall and F1 scores of 98.00% each.
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- Samra Shahzadi
- Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, University of Gujrat, Gujrat 50700, Pakistan; (S.S.); (N.A.B.)
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- Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, University of Gujrat, Gujrat 50700, Pakistan; (S.S.); (N.A.B.)
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- Department of Information Technology, University of Gujrat, Gujrat 50700, Pakistan;
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- Universidad Europea del Atlántico, Isabel Torres 21, 39011 Santander, Spain; (I.E.P.); (M.B.U.)
- Universidade Internacional do Cuanza, Cuito EN250, Bié, Angola
- Fundación Universitaria Internacional de Colombia, Bogotá 11001, Colombia
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- Universidad Europea del Atlántico, Isabel Torres 21, 39011 Santander, Spain; (I.E.P.); (M.B.U.)
- Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana, Campeche 24560, Mexico
- Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana, Arecibo, PR 00613, USA
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- Department of Signal Theory, Communications and Telematics Engineering, Unviersity of Valladolid, Paseo de Belén, 15, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
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- Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Republic of Korea
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Arya AD, Verma SS, Chakarabarti P, Chakrabarti T, Elngar AA, Kamali AM, Nami M. A systematic review on machine learning and deep learning techniques in the effective diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Brain Inform 2023; 10:17. [PMID: 37450224 PMCID: PMC10349019 DOI: 10.1186/s40708-023-00195-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2022] [Accepted: 06/02/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023] Open
Abstract
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a brain-related disease in which the condition of the patient gets worse with time. AD is not a curable disease by any medication. It is impossible to halt the death of brain cells, but with the help of medication, the effects of AD can be delayed. As not all MCI patients will suffer from AD, it is required to accurately diagnose whether a mild cognitive impaired (MCI) patient will convert to AD (namely MCI converter MCI-C) or not (namely MCI non-converter MCI-NC), during early diagnosis. There are two modalities, positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance image (MRI), used by a physician for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Machine learning and deep learning perform exceptionally well in the field of computer vision where there is a requirement to extract information from high-dimensional data. Researchers use deep learning models in the field of medicine for diagnosis, prognosis, and even to predict the future health of the patient under medication. This study is a systematic review of publications using machine learning and deep learning methods for early classification of normal cognitive (NC) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).This study is an effort to provide the details of the two most commonly used modalities PET and MRI for the identification of AD, and to evaluate the performance of both modalities while working with different classifiers.
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- Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, 62511 Egypt
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- Department of Neuroscience, School of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Cognitive Neuropsychology Unit, Department of Social Sciences, Canadian University Dubai, Dubai, UAE
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Chauhan N, Choi BJ. Classification of Alzheimer's Disease Using Maximal Information Coefficient-Based Functional Connectivity with an Extreme Learning Machine. Brain Sci 2023; 13:1046. [PMID: 37508978 PMCID: PMC10377329 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13071046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2023] [Revised: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive chronic illness that leads to cognitive decline and dementia. Neuroimaging technologies, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and deep learning approaches offer promising avenues for AD classification. In this study, we investigate the use of fMRI-based functional connectivity (FC) measures, including the Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC), maximal information coefficient (MIC), and extended maximal information coefficient (eMIC), combined with extreme learning machines (ELM) for AD classification. Our findings demonstrate that employing non-linear techniques, such as MIC and eMIC, as features for classification yields accurate results. Specifically, eMIC-based features achieve a high accuracy of 94% for classifying cognitively normal (CN) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) individuals, outperforming PCC (81%) and MIC (85%). For MCI and AD classification, MIC achieves higher accuracy (81%) compared to PCC (58%) and eMIC (78%). In CN and AD classification, eMIC exhibits the best accuracy of 95% compared to MIC (90%) and PCC (87%). These results underscore the effectiveness of fMRI-based features derived from non-linear techniques in accurately differentiating AD and MCI individuals from CN individuals, emphasizing the potential of neuroimaging and machine learning methods for improving AD diagnosis and classification.
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- Nishant Chauhan
- Department of Electronic Engineering, Daegu University, Gyeongsan 38453, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Daegu University, Gyeongsan 38453, Republic of Korea
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Hua L, Gao F, Xia X, Guo Q, Zhao Y, Huang S, Yuan Z. Individual-specific functional connectivity improves prediction of Alzheimer's disease's symptoms in elderly people regardless of APOE ε4 genotype. Commun Biol 2023; 6:581. [PMID: 37258640 PMCID: PMC10232409 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04952-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 05/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023] Open
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To date, reliable biomarkers remain unclear that could link functional connectivity to patients' symptoms for detecting and predicting the process from normal aging to Alzheimer's disease (AD) in elderly people with specific genotypes. To address this, individual-specific functional connectivity is constructed for elderly participants with/without APOE ε4 allele. Then, we utilize recursive feature selection-based machine learning to reveal individual brain-behavior relationships and to predict the symptom transition in different genotypes. Our findings reveal that compared with conventional atlas-based functional connectivity, individual-specific functional connectivity exhibits higher classification and prediction performance from normal aging to AD in both APOE ε4 groups, while no significant performance is detected when the data of two genotyping groups are combined. Furthermore, individual-specific between-network connectivity constitutes a major contributor to assessing cognitive symptoms. This study highlights the essential role of individual variation in cortical functional anatomy and the integration of brain and behavior in predicting individualized symptoms.
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- Lin Hua
- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, SAR 999078, China
- Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, SAR 999078, China
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- Institute of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, SAR 999078, China
- Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, SAR 999078, China
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, SAR 999078, China
- Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, SAR 999078, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, SAR 999078, China
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- Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, SAR 999078, China.
- Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, SAR 999078, China.
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Alfeo AL, Zippo AG, Catrambone V, Cimino MGCA, Toschi N, Valenza G. From local counterfactuals to global feature importance: efficient, robust, and model-agnostic explanations for brain connectivity networks. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2023; 236:107550. [PMID: 37086584 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2023.107550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2023] [Revised: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 04/14/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is a technology that can enhance trust in mental state classifications by providing explanations for the reasoning behind artificial intelligence (AI) models outputs, especially for high-dimensional and highly-correlated brain signals. Feature importance and counterfactual explanations are two common approaches to generate these explanations, but both have drawbacks. While feature importance methods, such as shapley additive explanations (SHAP), can be computationally expensive and sensitive to feature correlation, counterfactual explanations only explain a single outcome instead of the entire model. METHODS To overcome these limitations, we propose a new procedure for computing global feature importance that involves aggregating local counterfactual explanations. This approach is specifically tailored to fMRI signals and is based on the hypothesis that instances close to the decision boundary and their counterfactuals mainly differ in the features identified as most important for the downstream classification task. We refer to this proposed feature importance measure as Boundary Crossing Solo Ratio (BoCSoR), since it quantifies the frequency with which a change in each feature in isolation leads to a change in classification outcome, i.e., the crossing of the model's decision boundary. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Experimental results on synthetic data and real publicly available fMRI data from the Human Connect project show that the proposed BoCSoR measure is more robust to feature correlation and less computationally expensive than state-of-the-art methods. Additionally, it is equally effective in providing an explanation for the behavior of any AI model for brain signals. These properties are crucial for medical decision support systems, where many different features are often extracted from the same physiological measures and a gold standard is absent. Consequently, computing feature importance may become computationally expensive, and there may be a high probability of mutual correlation among features, leading to unreliable results from state-of-the-art XAI methods.
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- Antonio Luca Alfeo
- Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 1, Pisa, 56126, Italy; Bioengineering & Robotics Research Center E. Piaggio, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 1, Pisa, 56126, Italy.
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Raoul Follereau, 3, Vedano al Lambro (MB), 20854, Italy
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- Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 1, Pisa, 56126, Italy; Bioengineering & Robotics Research Center E. Piaggio, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 1, Pisa, 56126, Italy
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- Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 1, Pisa, 56126, Italy; Bioengineering & Robotics Research Center E. Piaggio, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 1, Pisa, 56126, Italy
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier 1, Roma, 00133, Italy
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- Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 1, Pisa, 56126, Italy; Bioengineering & Robotics Research Center E. Piaggio, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 1, Pisa, 56126, Italy
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Zhao W, Makowski C, Hagler DJ, Garavan HP, Thompson WK, Greene DJ, Jernigan TL, Dale AM. Task fMRI paradigms may capture more behaviorally relevant information than resting-state functional connectivity. Neuroimage 2023; 270:119946. [PMID: 36801369 PMCID: PMC11037888 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2022] [Revised: 02/08/2023] [Accepted: 02/15/2023] [Indexed: 02/18/2023] Open
Abstract
Characterizing the optimal fMRI paradigms for detecting behaviorally relevant functional connectivity (FC) patterns is a critical step to furthering our knowledge of the neural basis of behavior. Previous studies suggested that FC patterns derived from task fMRI paradigms, which we refer to as task-based FC, are better correlated with individual differences in behavior than resting-state FC, but the consistency and generalizability of this advantage across task conditions was not fully explored. Using data from resting-state fMRI and three fMRI tasks from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study ® (ABCD), we tested whether the observed improvement in behavioral prediction power of task-based FC can be attributed to changes in brain activity induced by the task design. We decomposed the task fMRI time course of each task into the task model fit (the fitted time course of the task condition regressors from the single-subject general linear model) and the task model residuals, calculated their respective FC, and compared the behavioral prediction performance of these FC estimates to resting-state FC and the original task-based FC. The FC of the task model fit was better than the FC of the task model residual and resting-state FC at predicting a measure of general cognitive ability or two measures of performance on the fMRI tasks. The superior behavioral prediction performance of the FC of the task model fit was content-specific insofar as it was only observed for fMRI tasks that probed similar cognitive constructs to the predicted behavior of interest. To our surprise, the task model parameters, the beta estimates of the task condition regressors, were equally if not more predictive of behavioral differences than all FC measures. These results showed that the observed improvement of behavioral prediction afforded by task-based FC was largely driven by the FC patterns associated with the task design. Together with previous studies, our findings highlighted the importance of task design in eliciting behaviorally meaningful brain activation and FC patterns.
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- Weiqi Zhao
- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92161, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92161, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92161, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92161, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92161, USA; Center for Human Development, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92161, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Center for Multimodal Imaging and Genetics, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, 9444 Medical Center Dr, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Department of Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
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Cruzat J, Herzog R, Prado P, Sanz-Perl Y, Gonzalez-Gomez R, Moguilner S, Kringelbach ML, Deco G, Tagliazucchi E, Ibañez A. Temporal Irreversibility of Large-Scale Brain Dynamics in Alzheimer's Disease. J Neurosci 2023; 43:1643-1656. [PMID: 36732071 PMCID: PMC10008060 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1312-22.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2022] [Revised: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/25/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Healthy brain dynamics can be understood as the emergence of a complex system far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Brain dynamics are temporally irreversible and thus establish a preferred direction in time (i.e., arrow of time). However, little is known about how the time-reversal symmetry of spontaneous brain activity is affected by Alzheimer's disease (AD). We hypothesized that the level of irreversibility would be compromised in AD, signaling a fundamental shift in the collective properties of brain activity toward equilibrium dynamics. We investigated the irreversibility from resting-state fMRI and EEG data in male and female human patients with AD and elderly healthy control subjects (HCs). We quantified the level of irreversibility and, thus, proximity to nonequilibrium dynamics by comparing forward and backward time series through time-shifted correlations. AD was associated with a breakdown of temporal irreversibility at the global, local, and network levels, and at multiple oscillatory frequency bands. At the local level, temporoparietal and frontal regions were affected by AD. The limbic, frontoparietal, default mode, and salience networks were the most compromised at the network level. The temporal reversibility was associated with cognitive decline in AD and gray matter volume in HCs. The irreversibility of brain dynamics provided higher accuracy and more distinctive information than classical neurocognitive measures when differentiating AD from control subjects. Findings were validated using an out-of-sample cohort. Present results offer new evidence regarding pathophysiological links between the entropy generation rate of brain dynamics and the clinical presentation of AD, opening new avenues for dementia characterization at different levels.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT By assessing the irreversibility of large-scale dynamics across multiple brain signals, we provide a precise signature capable of distinguishing Alzheimer's disease (AD) at the global, local, and network levels and different oscillatory regimes. Irreversibility of limbic, frontoparietal, default-mode, and salience networks was the most compromised by AD compared with more sensory-motor networks. Moreover, the time-irreversibility properties associated with cognitive decline and atrophy outperformed and complemented classical neurocognitive markers of AD in predictive classification performance. Findings were generalized and replicated with an out-of-sample validation procedure. We provide novel multilevel evidence of reduced irreversibility in AD brain dynamics that has the potential to open new avenues for understating neurodegeneration in terms of the temporal asymmetry of brain dynamics.
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- Josephine Cruzat
- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, 7911328, Santiago, Chile
- Fundación para el Estudio de la Conciencia Humana (ECoH), 7550000, Santiago, Chile
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, 7911328, Santiago, Chile
- Fundación para el Estudio de la Conciencia Humana (ECoH), 7550000, Santiago, Chile
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, 7911328, Santiago, Chile
- Escuela de Fonoaudiología, Facultad de Odontología y Ciencias de la Rehabilitación, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Physics, University of Buenos Aires, C1428EGA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), C1033AAJ, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés, C116ABJ, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Center for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, 7911328, Santiago, Chile
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, 7911328, Santiago, Chile
- Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143
- Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom
- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, 8000 Århus, Denmark
- Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9BX, United Kingdom
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
- Institució Catalana de la Recerca i Estudis Avancats (ICREA), 08010 Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, D-04303 Leipzig, Germany
- School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne 3168, Australia
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, 7911328, Santiago, Chile
- Department of Physics, University of Buenos Aires, C1428EGA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), C1033AAJ, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés, C116ABJ, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, 7911328, Santiago, Chile
- National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), C1033AAJ, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés, C116ABJ, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143
- Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Ellis CA, Miller RL, Calhoun VD. Towards greater neuroimaging classification transparency via the integration of explainability methods and confidence estimation approaches. INFORMATICS IN MEDICINE UNLOCKED 2023; 37:101176. [PMID: 37035832 PMCID: PMC10078989 DOI: 10.1016/j.imu.2023.101176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The field of neuroimaging has increasingly sought to develop artificial intelligence-based models for neurological and neuropsychiatric disorder automated diagnosis and clinical decision support. However, if these models are to be implemented in a clinical setting, transparency will be vital. Two aspects of transparency are (1) confidence estimation and (2) explainability. Confidence estimation approaches indicate confidence in individual predictions. Explainability methods give insight into the importance of features to model predictions. In this study, we integrate confidence estimation and explainability approaches for the first time. We demonstrate their viability for schizophrenia diagnosis using resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) dynamic functional network connectivity (dFNC) data. We compare two confidence estimation approaches: Monte Carlo dropout (MCD) and MC batch normalization (MCBN). We combine them with two gradient-based explainability approaches, saliency and layer-wise relevance propagation (LRP), and examine their effects upon explanations. We find that MCD often adversely affects model gradients, making it ill-suited for integration with gradient-based explainability methods. In contrast, MCBN does not affect model gradients. Additionally, we find many participant-level differences between regular explanations and the distributions of explanations for combined explainability and confidence estimation approaches. This suggests that a similar confidence estimation approach used in a clinical context with explanations only output for the regular model would likely not yield adequate explanations. We hope that our findings will provide a starting point for the integration of the two fields, provide useful guidance for future studies, and accelerate the development of transparent neuroimaging clinical decision support systems.
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- Charles A. Ellis
- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 313 Ferst Dr NW, Atlanta, 30332, GA, United States
- Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science: Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, 55 Park Pl NE, Atlanta, GA, 30303, United States
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- Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science: Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, 55 Park Pl NE, Atlanta, GA, 30303, United States
- Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, 25 Park PlaceSuite 700, Atlanta, GA, 30303, United States
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 313 Ferst Dr NW, Atlanta, 30332, GA, United States
- Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science: Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, 55 Park Pl NE, Atlanta, GA, 30303, United States
- Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, 25 Park PlaceSuite 700, Atlanta, GA, 30303, United States
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Heese R, Schmid J, Walczak M, Bortz M. Calibrated simplex-mapping classification. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0279876. [PMID: 36649243 PMCID: PMC9844900 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2021] [Accepted: 12/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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We propose a novel methodology for general multi-class classification in arbitrary feature spaces, which results in a potentially well-calibrated classifier. Calibrated classifiers are important in many applications because, in addition to the prediction of mere class labels, they also yield a confidence level for each of their predictions. In essence, the training of our classifier proceeds in two steps. In a first step, the training data is represented in a latent space whose geometry is induced by a regular (n - 1)-dimensional simplex, n being the number of classes. We design this representation in such a way that it well reflects the feature space distances of the datapoints to their own- and foreign-class neighbors. In a second step, the latent space representation of the training data is extended to the whole feature space by fitting a regression model to the transformed data. With this latent-space representation, our calibrated classifier is readily defined. We rigorously establish its core theoretical properties and benchmark its prediction and calibration properties by means of various synthetic and real-world data sets from different application domains.
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- Raoul Heese
- Fraunhofer Center for Machine Learning, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Center for Machine Learning, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Center for Machine Learning, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Lu Z, Wang J, Mao R, Lu M, Shi J. Jointly Composite Feature Learning and Autism Spectrum Disorder Classification Using Deep Multi-Output Takagi-Sugeno-Kang Fuzzy Inference Systems. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2023; 20:476-488. [PMID: 35349448 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2022.3163140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by poor social communication abilities and repetitive behaviors or restrictive interests, which has brought a heavy burden to families and society. In many attempts to understand ASD neurobiology, resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) has been an effective tool. However, current ASD diagnosis methods based on rs-fMRI have two major defects. First, the instability of rs-fMRI leads to functional connectivity (FC) uncertainty, affecting the performance of ASD diagnosis. Second, many FCs are involved in brain activity, making it difficult to determine effective features in ASD classification. In this study, we propose an interpretable ASD classifier DeepTSK, which combines a multi-output Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (MO-TSK) fuzzy inference system (FIS) for composite feature learning and a deep belief network (DBN) for ASD classification in a unified network. To avoid the suboptimal solution of DeepTSK, a joint optimization procedure is employed to simultaneously learn the parameters of MO-TSK and DBN. The proposed DeepTSK was evaluated on datasets collected from three sites of the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange (ABIDE) database. The experimental results showed the effectiveness of the proposed method, and the discriminant FCs are presented by analyzing the consequent parameters of Deep MO-TSK.
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Liu L, Wang YP, Wang Y, Zhang P, Xiong S. An enhanced multi-modal brain graph network for classifying neuropsychiatric disorders. Med Image Anal 2022; 81:102550. [PMID: 35872360 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2022.102550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2022] [Revised: 07/06/2022] [Accepted: 07/13/2022] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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It has been proven that neuropsychiatric disorders (NDs) can be associated with both structures and functions of brain regions. Thus, data about structures and functions could be usefully combined in a comprehensive analysis. While brain structural MRI (sMRI) images contain anatomic and morphological information about NDs, functional MRI (fMRI) images carry complementary information. However, efficient extraction and fusion of sMRI and fMRI data remains challenging. In this study, we develop an enhanced multi-modal graph convolutional network (MME-GCN) in a binary classification between patients with NDs and healthy controls, based on the fusion of the structural and functional graphs of the brain region. First, based on the same brain atlas, we construct structural and functional graphs from sMRI and fMRI data, respectively. Second, we use machine learning to extract important features from the structural graph network. Third, we use these extracted features to adjust the corresponding edge weights in the functional graph network. Finally, we train a multi-layer GCN and use it in binary classification task. MME-GCN achieved 93.71% classification accuracy on the open data set provided by the Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics. In addition, we analyzed the important features selected from the structural graph and verified them in the functional graph. Using MME-GCN, we found several specific brain connections important to NDs.
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- Liangliang Liu
- College of Information and Management Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan 450046, P.R. China.
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- Dthe Biomedical Engineering Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
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- College of Information and Management Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan 450046, P.R. China
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- College of Information and Management Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan 450046, P.R. China
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- College of Information and Management Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan 450046, P.R. China
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Predicting brain structural network using functional connectivity. Med Image Anal 2022; 79:102463. [PMID: 35490597 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2022.102463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2021] [Revised: 03/06/2022] [Accepted: 04/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Uncovering the non-trivial brain structure-function relationship is fundamentally important for revealing organizational principles of human brain. However, it is challenging to infer a reliable relationship between individual brain structure and function, e.g., the relations between individual brain structural connectivity (SC) and functional connectivity (FC). Brain structure-function displays a distributed and heterogeneous pattern, that is, many functional relationships arise from non-overlapping sets of anatomical connections. This complex relation can be interwoven with widely existed individual structural and functional variations. Motivated by the advances of generative adversarial network (GAN) and graph convolutional network (GCN) in the deep learning field, in this work, we proposed a multi-GCN based GAN (MGCN-GAN) to infer individual SC based on corresponding FC by automatically learning the complex associations between individual brain structural and functional networks. The generator of MGCN-GAN is composed of multiple multi-layer GCNs which are designed to model complex indirect connections in brain network. The discriminator of MGCN-GAN is a single multi-layer GCN which aims to distinguish the predicted SC from real SC. To overcome the inherent unstable behavior of GAN, we designed a new structure-preserving (SP) loss function to guide the generator to learn the intrinsic SC patterns more effectively. Using Human Connectome Project (HCP) dataset and Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset as test beds, our MGCN-GAN model can generate reliable individual SC from FC. This result implies that there may exist a common regulation between specific brain structural and functional architectures across different individuals.
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Vergara VM, Espinoza FA, Calhoun VD. Identifying Alcohol Use Disorder With Resting State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data: A Comparison Among Machine Learning Classifiers. Front Psychol 2022; 13:867067. [PMID: 35756267 PMCID: PMC9226579 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.867067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a burden to society creating social and health problems. Detection of AUD and its effects on the brain are difficult to assess. This problem is enhanced by the comorbid use of other substances such as nicotine that has been present in previous studies. Recent machine learning algorithms have raised the attention of researchers as a useful tool in studying and detecting AUD. This work uses AUD and controls samples free of any other substance use to assess the performance of a set of commonly used machine learning classifiers detecting AUD from resting state functional network connectivity (rsFNC) derived from independent component analysis. The cohort used included 51 alcohol dependent subjects and 51 control subjects. Despite alcohol, none of the 102 subjects reported use of nicotine, cannabis or any other dependence or habit formation substance. Classification features consisted of whole brain rsFNC estimates undergoing a feature selection process using a random forest approach. Features were then fed to 10 different machine learning classifiers to be evaluated based on their classification performance. A neural network classifier showed the highest performance with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.79. Other good performers with similar AUC scores were logistic regression, nearest neighbor, and support vector machine classifiers. The worst results were obtained with Gaussian process and quadratic discriminant analysis. The feature selection outcome pointed to functional connections between visual, sensorimotor, executive control, reward, and salience networks as the most relevant for classification. We conclude that AUD can be identified using machine learning classifiers in the absence of nicotine comorbidity.
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- Victor M Vergara
- Tri-Institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Tri-Institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Tri-Institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
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Estimating the Physical Properties of Nanofluids Using a Connectionist Intelligent Model Known as Gaussian Process Regression Approach. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 2022. [DOI: 10.1155/2022/1017341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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This work aims to develop a robust machine learning model for the prediction of the relative viscosity of nanoparticles (NPs) including Al2O3, TiO2, SiO2, CuO, SiC, and Ag based on the most important input parameters affecting them covering the size, concentration, thickness of the interfacial layer, and intensive properties of NPs. In order to develop a comprehensive artificial intelligence model in this study, sixty-nine data samples were collected. To this end, the Gaussian process regression approach with four basic function kernels (Matern, squared exponential, exponential, and rational quadratic) was exploited. It was found that Matern outperformed other models with R2 = 0.987, MARE (%) = 6.048, RMSE = 0.0577, and STD = 0.0574. This precise yet simple model can be a good alternative to the complex thermodynamic, mathematical-analytical models of the past.
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Classification of Alzheimer’s Disease Based on Core-Large Scale Brain Network Using Multilayer Extreme Learning Machine. MATHEMATICS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/math10121967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Various studies suggest that the network deficit in default network mode (DMN) is prevalent in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Besides DMN, some studies reveal that network alteration occurs in salience network motor networks and large scale network. In this study we performed classification of AD and MCI from healthy control considering the network alterations in large scale network and DMN. Thus, we constructed the brain network from functional magnetic resonance (fMR) images. Pearson’s correlation-based functional connectivity was used to construct the brain network. Graph features of the brain network were converted to feature vectors using Node2vec graph-embedding technique. Two classifiers, single layered extreme learning and multilayered extreme learning machine, were used for the classification together with feature selection approaches. We performed the classification test on the brain network of different sizes including the large scale brain network, the whole brain network and the combined brain network. Experimental results showed that the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) feature selection method generates better classification accuracy on large network size, and that feature selection with adaptive structure learning (FSAL) feature selection technique generates better classification accuracy on small network size.
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Khatri U, Kwon GR. Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis and Biomarker Analysis Using Resting-State Functional MRI Functional Brain Network With Multi-Measures Features and Hippocampal Subfield and Amygdala Volume of Structural MRI. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:818871. [PMID: 35707703 PMCID: PMC9190953 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.818871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2021] [Accepted: 03/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Accurate diagnosis of the initial phase of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is essential and crucial. The objective of this research was to employ efficient biomarkers for the diagnostic analysis and classification of AD based on combining structural MRI (sMRI) and resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI). So far, several anatomical MRI imaging markers for AD diagnosis have been identified. The use of cortical and subcortical volumes, the hippocampus, and amygdala volume, as well as genetic patterns, has proven to be beneficial in distinguishing patients with AD from the healthy population. The fMRI time series data have the potential for specific numerical information as well as dynamic temporal information. Voxel and graphical analyses have gained popularity for analyzing neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and its prodromal phase, mild cognitive impairment (MCI). So far, these approaches have been utilized separately for the diagnosis of AD. In recent studies, the classification of cases of MCI into those that are not converted for a certain period as stable MCI (MCIs) and those that converted to AD as MCIc has been less commonly reported with inconsistent results. In this study, we verified and validated the potency of a proposed diagnostic framework to identify AD and differentiate MCIs from MCIc by utilizing the efficient biomarkers obtained from sMRI, along with functional brain networks of the frequency range .01-.027 at the resting state and the voxel-based features. The latter mainly included default mode networks (amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation [ALFF], fractional ALFF [ALFF], and regional homogeneity [ReHo]), degree centrality (DC), and salience networks (SN). Pearson's correlation coefficient for measuring fMRI functional networks has proven to be an efficient means for disease diagnosis. We applied the graph theory to calculate nodal features (nodal degree [ND], nodal path length [NL], and between centrality [BC]) as a graphical feature and analyzed the connectivity link between different brain regions. We extracted three-dimensional (3D) patterns to calculate regional coherence and then implement a univariate statistical t-test to access a 3D mask that preserves voxels showing significant changes. Similarly, from sMRI, we calculated the hippocampal subfield and amygdala nuclei volume using Freesurfer (version 6). Finally, we implemented and compared the different feature selection algorithms to integrate the structural features, brain networks, and voxel features to optimize the diagnostic identifications of AD using support vector machine (SVM) classifiers. We also compared the performance of SVM with Random Forest (RF) classifiers. The obtained results demonstrated the potency of our framework, wherein a combination of the hippocampal subfield, the amygdala volume, and brain networks with multiple measures of rs-fMRI could significantly enhance the accuracy of other approaches in diagnosing AD. The accuracy obtained by the proposed method was reported for binary classification. More importantly, the classification results of the less commonly reported MCIs vs. MCIc improved significantly. However, this research involved only the AD Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) cohort to focus on the diagnosis of AD advancement by integrating sMRI and fMRI. Hence, the study's primary disadvantage is its small sample size. In this case, the dataset we utilized did not fully reflect the whole population. As a result, we cannot guarantee that our findings will be applicable to other populations.
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- Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea
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Multi-Class Classifier in Parkinson’s Disease Using an Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithm. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/app12063048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In this contribution, a novel methodology for multi-class classification in the field of Parkinson’s disease is proposed. The methodology is structured in two phases. In a first phase, the most relevant volumes of interest (VOI) of the brain are selected by means of an evolutionary multi-objective optimization (MOE) algorithm. Each of these VOIs are subjected to volumetric feature extraction using the Three-Dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transform (3D-DWT). When applying 3D-DWT, a high number of coefficients is obtained, requiring the use of feature selection/reduction algorithms to find the most relevant features. The method used in this contribution is based on Mutual Redundancy (MI) and Minimum Maximum Relevance (mRMR) and PCA. To optimize the VOI selection, a first group of 550 MRI was used for the 5 classes: PD, SWEDD, Prodromal, GeneCohort and Normal. Once the Pareto Front of the solutions is obtained (with varying degrees of complexity, reflected in the number of selected VOIs), these solutions are tested in a second phase. In order to analyze the SVM classifier accuracy, a test set of 367 MRI was used. The methodology obtains relevant results in multi-class classification, presenting several solutions with different levels of complexity and precision (Pareto Front solutions), reaching a result of 97% as the highest precision in the test data.
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Ahsan MM, Luna SA, Siddique Z. Machine-Learning-Based Disease Diagnosis: A Comprehensive Review. Healthcare (Basel) 2022; 10:541. [PMID: 35327018 PMCID: PMC8950225 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10030541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2022] [Revised: 03/08/2022] [Accepted: 03/10/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Globally, there is a substantial unmet need to diagnose various diseases effectively. The complexity of the different disease mechanisms and underlying symptoms of the patient population presents massive challenges in developing the early diagnosis tool and effective treatment. Machine learning (ML), an area of artificial intelligence (AI), enables researchers, physicians, and patients to solve some of these issues. Based on relevant research, this review explains how machine learning (ML) is being used to help in the early identification of numerous diseases. Initially, a bibliometric analysis of the publication is carried out using data from the Scopus and Web of Science (WOS) databases. The bibliometric study of 1216 publications was undertaken to determine the most prolific authors, nations, organizations, and most cited articles. The review then summarizes the most recent trends and approaches in machine-learning-based disease diagnosis (MLBDD), considering the following factors: algorithm, disease types, data type, application, and evaluation metrics. Finally, in this paper, we highlight key results and provides insight into future trends and opportunities in the MLBDD area.
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- Md Manjurul Ahsan
- School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
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- Medicine & Surgery, Dhaka Medical College & Hospital, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh;
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- Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA;
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Cheah WT, Hwang JJ, Hong SY, Fu LC, Chang YL, Chen TF, Chen IA, Chou CC. A Digital Screening System for Alzheimer Disease Based on a Neuropsychological Test and a Convolutional Neural Network: System Development and Validation. JMIR Med Inform 2022; 10:e31106. [PMID: 35262497 PMCID: PMC8943541 DOI: 10.2196/31106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2021] [Revised: 12/31/2021] [Accepted: 01/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Background Alzheimer disease (AD) and other types of dementia are now considered one of the world’s most pressing health problems for aging people worldwide. It was the seventh-leading cause of death, globally, in 2019. With a growing number of patients with dementia and increasing costs for treatment and care, early detection of the disease at the stage of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) will prevent the rapid progression of dementia. In addition to reducing the physical and psychological stress of patients’ caregivers in the long term, it will also improve the everyday quality of life of patients. Objective The aim of this study was to design a digital screening system to discriminate between patients with MCI and AD and healthy controls (HCs), based on the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure (ROCF) neuropsychological test. Methods The study took place at National Taiwan University between 2018 and 2019. In order to develop the system, pretraining was performed using, and features were extracted from, an open sketch data set using a data-driven deep learning approach through a convolutional neural network. Later, the learned features were transferred to our collected data set to further train the classifier. The first data set was collected using pen and paper for the traditional method. The second data set used a tablet and smart pen for data collection. The system’s performance was then evaluated using the data sets. Results The performance of the designed system when using the data set that was collected using the traditional pen and paper method resulted in a mean area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.913 (SD 0.004) when distinguishing between patients with MCI and HCs. On the other hand, when discriminating between patients with AD and HCs, the mean AUROC was 0.950 (SD 0.003) when using the data set that was collected using the digitalized method. Conclusions The automatic ROCF test scoring system that we designed showed satisfying results for differentiating between patients with AD and MCI and HCs. Comparatively, our proposed network architecture provided better performance than our previous work, which did not include data augmentation and dropout techniques. In addition, it also performed better than other existing network architectures, such as AlexNet and Sketch-a-Net, with transfer learning techniques. The proposed system can be incorporated with other tests to assist clinicians in the early diagnosis of AD and to reduce the physical and mental burden on patients’ family and friends.
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- Wen-Ting Cheah
- Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Taipei City Zhishan Senior Home, Taipei, Taiwan
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Classification of Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild-Cognitive Impairment Base on High-Order Dynamic Functional Connectivity at Different Frequency Band. MATHEMATICS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/math10050805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Functional brain connectivity networks obtained from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) have been extensively utilized for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the traditional correlation analysis technique only explores the pairwise relation, which may not be suitable for revealing sufficient and proper functional connectivity links among brain regions. Additionally, previous literature typically focuses on only lower-order dynamics, without considering higher-order dynamic networks properties, and they particularly focus on single frequency range time series of rs-fMRI. To solve these problems, in this article, a new diagnosis scheme is proposed by constructing a high-order dynamic functional network at different frequency level time series (full-band (0.01–0.08 Hz); slow-4 (0.027–0.08 Hz); and slow-5 (0.01–0.027 Hz)) data obtained from rs-fMRI to build the functional brain network for all brain regions. Especially, to tune the precise analysis of the regularized parameters in the Support Vector Machine (SVM), a nested leave-one-out cross-validation (LOOCV) technique is adopted. Finally, the SVM classifier is trained to classify AD from HC based on these higher-order dynamic functional brain networks at different frequency ranges. The experiment results illustrate that for all bands with a LOOCV classification accuracy of 94.10% with a 90.95% of sensitivity, and a 96.75% of specificity outperforms the individual networks. Utilization of the given technique for the identification of AD from HC compete for the most state-of-the-art technology in terms of the diagnosis accuracy. Additionally, results obtained for the all-band shows performance further suggest that our proposed scheme has a high-rate accuracy. These results have validated the effectiveness of the proposed methods for clinical value to the identification of AD.
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Li Z, Jiang X, Wang Y, Kim Y. Applied machine learning in Alzheimer's disease research: omics, imaging, and clinical data. Emerg Top Life Sci 2021; 5:765-777. [PMID: 34881778 PMCID: PMC8786302 DOI: 10.1042/etls20210249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2021] [Revised: 11/05/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains a devastating neurodegenerative disease with few preventive or curative treatments available. Modern technology developments of high-throughput omics platforms and imaging equipment provide unprecedented opportunities to study the etiology and progression of this disease. Meanwhile, the vast amount of data from various modalities, such as genetics, proteomics, transcriptomics, and imaging, as well as clinical features impose great challenges in data integration and analysis. Machine learning (ML) methods offer novel techniques to address high dimensional data, integrate data from different sources, model the etiological and clinical heterogeneity, and discover new biomarkers. These directions have the potential to help us better manage the disease progression and develop novel treatment strategies. This mini-review paper summarizes different ML methods that have been applied to study AD using single-platform or multi-modal data. We review the current state of ML applications for five key directions of AD research: disease classification, drug repurposing, subtyping, progression prediction, and biomarker discovery. This summary provides insights about the current research status of ML-based AD research and highlights potential directions for future research.
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- Ziyi Li
- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, U.S.A
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- School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, U.S.A
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- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, U.S.A
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- School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, U.S.A
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Ji J, Yao Y. Convolutional Neural Network With Graphical Lasso to Extract Sparse Topological Features for Brain Disease Classification. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2021; 18:2327-2338. [PMID: 32324565 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2020.2989315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The functional connectivity provides new insights into the mechanisms of the human brain at network-level, which has been proved to be an effective biomarker for brain disease classification. Recently, machine learning methods have played an important role in functional connectivity classification, among which convolutional neural network (CNN) based methods become a new hot topic since they can extract topological features in the brain network. However, the conventional CNN-based methods haven't taken sparse connectivity patterns (SCPs) of the human brain into consideration, which may lead to redundancy of the topological features, and limit their performance and generalization. To solve it, we propose a novel CNN-based model with graphical Lasso (CNNGLasso) to extract sparse topological features for brain disease classification. First, we develop a novel graphical Lasso model for revealing the SCPs at group-level. Then, the SCPs are used to guide the topological feature extraction. Finally, the obtained sparse topological features are used to classify the patients from normal controls. The experiment results on the ABIDE dataset demonstrate that the CNNGLasso outperforms the others on various performances. Besides, the abnormal brain regions derived from the trained model are consistent with the previous investigations, which further proves the application prospect of the CNNGLasso.
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De Luna A, Marcia RF. Data-Limited Deep Learning Methods for Mild Cognitive Impairment Classification in Alzheimer's Disease Patients. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021; 2021:2641-2646. [PMID: 34891795 DOI: 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9630598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is the stage between the declining of normal brain function and the more serious decline of dementia. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the leading forms of dementia. Although MCI does not always lead to AD, an early diagnosis of MCI may be helpful in finding those with early signs of AD. The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) has utilized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the diagnosis of MCI and AD. MCI can be separated into two types: Early MCI (EMCI) and Late MCI (LMCI). Furthermore, MRI results can be separated into three views of axial, coronal and sagittal planes. In this work, we perform binary classifications between healthy people and the two types of MCI based on limited MRI images using deep learning approaches. Specifically, we implement and compare two various convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures. The MRIs of 516 patients were used in this study: 172 control normal (CN), 172 EMCI patients and 172 LMCI patients. For this data set, 50% of the images were used for training, 20% for validation, and the remaining 30% for testing. The results showed that the best classification for one model was between CN and LMCI for the coronal view with an accuracy of 79.67%. In addition, we achieved 67.85% accuracy for the second proposed model for the same classification group.
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Ji J, Yao Y. A novel CNN framework to extract multi-level modular features for the classification of brain networks. APPL INTELL 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10489-021-02668-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Zhang L, Wang L, Gao J, Risacher SL, Yan J, Li G, Liu T, Zhu D. Deep Fusion of Brain Structure-Function in Mild Cognitive Impairment. Med Image Anal 2021; 72:102082. [PMID: 34004495 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2021.102082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2020] [Revised: 03/20/2021] [Accepted: 04/13/2021] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Multimodal fusion of different types of neural image data provides an irreplaceable opportunity to take advantages of complementary cross-modal information that may only partially be contained in single modality. To jointly analyze multimodal data, deep neural networks can be especially useful because many studies have suggested that deep learning strategy is very efficient to reveal complex and non-linear relations buried in the data. However, most deep models, e.g., convolutional neural network and its numerous extensions, can only operate on regular Euclidean data like voxels in 3D MRI. The interrelated and hidden structures that beyond the grid neighbors, such as brain connectivity, may be overlooked. Moreover, how to effectively incorporate neuroscience knowledge into multimodal data fusion with a single deep framework is understudied. In this work, we developed a graph-based deep neural network to simultaneously model brain structure and function in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): the topology of the graph is initialized using structural network (from diffusion MRI) and iteratively updated by incorporating functional information (from functional MRI) to maximize the capability of differentiating MCI patients from elderly normal controls. This resulted in a new connectome by exploring "deep relations" between brain structure and function in MCI patients and we named it as Deep Brain Connectome. Though deep brain connectome is learned individually, it shows consistent patterns of alteration comparing to structural network at group level. With deep brain connectome, our developed deep model can achieve 92.7% classification accuracy on ADNI dataset.
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- Lu Zhang
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019 USA; Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
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- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA
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- School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA
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- Biomedical Research Imaging Center and Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7160, USA
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- Cortical Architecture Imaging and Discovery Lab, Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019 USA.
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Huang ZA, Zhu Z, Yau CH, Tan KC. Identifying Autism Spectrum Disorder From Resting-State fMRI Using Deep Belief Network. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS 2021; 32:2847-2861. [PMID: 32692687 DOI: 10.1109/tnnls.2020.3007943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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With the increasing prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), it is important to identify ASD patients for effective treatment and intervention, especially in early childhood. Neuroimaging techniques have been used to characterize the complex biomarkers based on the functional connectivity anomalies in the ASD. However, the diagnosis of ASD still adopts the symptom-based criteria by clinical observation. The existing computational models tend to achieve unreliable diagnostic classification on the large-scale aggregated data sets. In this work, we propose a novel graph-based classification model using the deep belief network (DBN) and the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange (ABIDE) database, which is a worldwide multisite functional and structural brain imaging data aggregation. The remarkable connectivity features are selected through a graph extension of K -nearest neighbors and then refined by a restricted path-based depth-first search algorithm. Thanks to the feature reduction, lower computational complexity could contribute to the shortening of the training time. The automatic hyperparameter-tuning technique is introduced to optimize the hyperparameters of the DBN by exploring the potential parameter space. The simulation experiments demonstrate the superior performance of our model, which is 6.4% higher than the best result reported on the ABIDE database. We also propose to use the data augmentation and the oversampling technique to identify further the possible subtypes within the ASD. The interpretability of our model enables the identification of the most remarkable autistic neural correlation patterns from the data-driven outcomes.
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Ibrahim B, Suppiah S, Ibrahim N, Mohamad M, Hassan HA, Nasser NS, Saripan MI. Diagnostic power of resting-state fMRI for detection of network connectivity in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review. Hum Brain Mapp 2021; 42:2941-2968. [PMID: 33942449 PMCID: PMC8127155 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2020] [Revised: 01/29/2021] [Accepted: 02/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Resting‐state fMRI (rs‐fMRI) detects functional connectivity (FC) abnormalities that occur in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). FC of the default mode network (DMN) is commonly impaired in AD and MCI. We conducted a systematic review aimed at determining the diagnostic power of rs‐fMRI to identify FC abnormalities in the DMN of patients with AD or MCI compared with healthy controls (HCs) using machine learning (ML) methods. Multimodal support vector machine (SVM) algorithm was the commonest form of ML method utilized. Multiple kernel approach can be utilized to aid in the classification by incorporating various discriminating features, such as FC graphs based on “nodes” and “edges” together with structural MRI‐based regional cortical thickness and gray matter volume. Other multimodal features include neuropsychiatric testing scores, DTI features, and regional cerebral blood flow. Among AD patients, the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC)/Precuneus was noted to be a highly affected hub of the DMN that demonstrated overall reduced FC. Whereas reduced DMN FC between the PCC and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) was observed in MCI patients. Evidence indicates that the nodes of the DMN can offer moderate to high diagnostic power to distinguish AD and MCI patients. Nevertheless, various concerns over the homogeneity of data based on patient selection, scanner effects, and the variable usage of classifiers and algorithms pose a challenge for ML‐based image interpretation of rs‐fMRI datasets to become a mainstream option for diagnosing AD and predicting the conversion of HC/MCI to AD.
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- Buhari Ibrahim
- Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.,Department of Physiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Bauchi State University Gadau, Gadau, Nigeria
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- Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Centre for Diagnostic and Applied Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Computer and Communication System Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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Lei B, Yu S, Zhao X, Frangi AF, Tan EL, Elazab A, Wang T, Wang S. Diagnosis of early Alzheimer's disease based on dynamic high order networks. Brain Imaging Behav 2021; 15:276-287. [PMID: 32789620 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-019-00255-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Machine learning methods have been widely used for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) via functional connectivity networks (FCNs) analysis from neuroimaging data. The conventional low-order FCNs are obtained by time-series correlation of the whole brain based on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (R-fMRI). However, FCNs overlook inter-region interactions, which limits application to brain disease diagnosis. To overcome this drawback, we develop a novel framework to exploit the high-level dynamic interactions among brain regions for early AD diagnosis. Specifically, a sliding window approach is employed to generate some R-fMRI sub-series. The correlations among these sub-series are then used to construct a series of dynamic FCNs. High-order FCNs based on the topographical similarity between each pair of the dynamic FCNs are then constructed. Afterward, a local weight clustering method is used to extract effective features of the network, and the least absolute shrinkage and selection operation method is chosen for feature selection. A support vector machine is employed for classification, and the dynamic high-order network approach is evaluated on the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach not only achieves promising results for AD classification, but also successfully recognizes disease-related biomarkers.
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- Baiying Lei
- National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- CISTIB Centre for Computational Imaging & Simulation technologies in Biomedicine, School of Computing and the School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore
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- National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China.
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- Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, 518000, People's Republic of China.
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Zhao X, Ang CKE, Acharya UR, Cheong KH. Application of Artificial Intelligence techniques for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease using structural MRI images. Biocybern Biomed Eng 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbe.2021.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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San-Martin R, Johns E, Quispe Mamani G, Tavares G, Phillips NA, Fraga FJ. A method for diagnosis support of mild cognitive impairment through EEG rhythms source location during working memory tasks. Biomed Signal Process Control 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2021.102499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Crosstalk between Depression and Dementia with Resting-State fMRI Studies and Its Relationship with Cognitive Functioning. Biomedicines 2021; 9:biomedicines9010082. [PMID: 33467174 PMCID: PMC7830949 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines9010082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2020] [Revised: 01/12/2021] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, and depression is a risk factor for developing AD. Epidemiological studies provide a clinical correlation between late-life depression (LLD) and AD. Depression patients generally remit with no residual symptoms, but LLD patients demonstrate residual cognitive impairment. Due to the lack of effective treatments, understanding how risk factors affect the course of AD is essential to manage AD. Advances in neuroimaging, including resting-state functional MRI (fMRI), have been used to address neural systems that contribute to clinical symptoms and functional changes across various psychiatric disorders. Resting-state fMRI studies have contributed to understanding each of the two diseases, but the link between LLD and AD has not been fully elucidated. This review focuses on three crucial and well-established networks in AD and LLD and discusses the impacts on cognitive decline, clinical symptoms, and prognosis. Three networks are the (1) default mode network, (2) executive control network, and (3) salience network. The multiple properties emphasized here, relevant for the hypothesis of the linkage between LLD and AD, will be further developed by ongoing future studies.
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The Necessity of Leave One Subject Out (LOSO) Cross Validation for EEG Disease Diagnosis. Brain Inform 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86993-9_50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Lanka P, Rangaprakash D, Dretsch MN, Katz JS, Denney TS, Deshpande G. Supervised machine learning for diagnostic classification from large-scale neuroimaging datasets. Brain Imaging Behav 2020; 14:2378-2416. [PMID: 31691160 PMCID: PMC7198352 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-019-00191-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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There are growing concerns about the generalizability of machine learning classifiers in neuroimaging. In order to evaluate this aspect across relatively large heterogeneous populations, we investigated four disorders: Autism spectrum disorder (N = 988), Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (N = 930), Post-traumatic stress disorder (N = 87) and Alzheimer's disease (N = 132). We applied 18 different machine learning classifiers (based on diverse principles) wherein the training/validation and the hold-out test data belonged to samples with the same diagnosis but differing in either the age range or the acquisition site. Our results indicate that overfitting can be a huge problem in heterogeneous datasets, especially with fewer samples, leading to inflated measures of accuracy that fail to generalize well to the general clinical population. Further, different classifiers tended to perform well on different datasets. In order to address this, we propose a consensus-classifier by combining the predictive power of all 18 classifiers. The consensus-classifier was less sensitive to unmatched training/validation and holdout test data. Finally, we combined feature importance scores obtained from all classifiers to infer the discriminative ability of connectivity features. The functional connectivity patterns thus identified were robust to the classification algorithm used, age and acquisition site differences, and had diagnostic predictive ability in addition to univariate statistically significant group differences between the groups. A MATLAB toolbox called Machine Learning in NeuroImaging (MALINI), which implements all the 18 different classifiers along with the consensus classifier is available from Lanka et al. (2019) The toolbox can also be found at the following URL: https://github.com/pradlanka/malini .
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- Pradyumna Lanka
- AU MRI Research Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, 560 Devall Dr., Suite 266D, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA
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- AU MRI Research Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, 560 Devall Dr., Suite 266D, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA
- Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory, Fort Rucker, AL, USA
- US Army Medical Research Directorate-West, Walter Reed Army Institute for Research, Joint Base Lewis-McCord, WA, USA
- Department of Psychology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
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- AU MRI Research Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, 560 Devall Dr., Suite 266D, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA
- Department of Psychology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
- Alabama Advanced Imaging Consortium, Birmingham, AL, USA
- Center for Neuroscience, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
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- AU MRI Research Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, 560 Devall Dr., Suite 266D, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA
- Department of Psychology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
- Alabama Advanced Imaging Consortium, Birmingham, AL, USA
- Center for Neuroscience, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
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- AU MRI Research Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, 560 Devall Dr., Suite 266D, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA.
- Department of Psychology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.
- Alabama Advanced Imaging Consortium, Birmingham, AL, USA.
- Center for Neuroscience, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.
- Center for Health Ecology and Equity Research, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.
- Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India.
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Liu J, Sheng Y, Lan W, Guo R, Wang Y, Wang J. Improved ASD classification using dynamic functional connectivity and multi-task feature selection. Pattern Recognit Lett 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2020.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Giannakoulias S, Shringari SR, Liu C, Phan HAT, Barrett TM, Ferrie JJ, Petersson EJ. Rosetta Machine Learning Models Accurately Classify Positional Effects of Thioamides on Proteolysis. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:8032-8041. [PMID: 32869996 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c05981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Thioamide substitutions of the peptide backbone have been shown to stabilize therapeutic and imaging peptides toward proteolysis. In order to rationally design thioamide modifications, we have developed a novel Rosetta custom score function to classify thioamide positional effects on proteolysis in substrates of serine and cysteine proteases. Peptides of interest were docked into proteases using the FlexPepDock application in Rosetta. Docked complexes were modified to contain thioamides parametrized through the creation of custom atom types in Rosetta based on ab intio simulations. Thioamide complexes were simulated, and the resultant structural complexes provided features for machine learning classification as the decomposed values of the Rosetta score function. An ensemble, majority voting model was developed to be a robust predictor of previously unpublished thioamide proteolysis holdout data. Theoretical control simulations with pseudo-atoms that modulate only one physical characteristic of the thioamide show differential effects on prediction accuracy by the optimized voting classification model. These pseudo-atom model simulations, as well as statistical analyses of the full thioamide simulations, implicate steric effects on peptide binding as being primarily responsible for thioamide positional effects on proteolytic resistance.
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- Sam Giannakoulias
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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Mirakhorli J, Amindavar H, Mirakhorli M. A new method to predict anomaly in brain network based on graph deep learning. Rev Neurosci 2020; 31:681-689. [PMID: 32678803 DOI: 10.1515/revneuro-2019-0108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Accepted: 02/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging a neuroimaging technique which is used in brain disorders and dysfunction studies, has been improved in recent years by mapping the topology of the brain connections, named connectopic mapping. Based on the fact that healthy and unhealthy brain regions and functions differ slightly, studying the complex topology of the functional and structural networks in the human brain is too complicated considering the growth of evaluation measures. One of the applications of irregular graph deep learning is to analyze the human cognitive functions related to the gene expression and related distributed spatial patterns. Since a variety of brain solutions can be dynamically held in the neuronal networks of the brain with different activity patterns and functional connectivity, both node-centric and graph-centric tasks are involved in this application. In this study, we used an individual generative model and high order graph analysis for the region of interest recognition areas of the brain with abnormal connection during performing certain tasks and resting-state or decompose irregular observations. Accordingly, a high order framework of Variational Graph Autoencoder with a Gaussian distributer was proposed in the paper to analyze the functional data in brain imaging studies in which Generative Adversarial Network is employed for optimizing the latent space in the process of learning strong non-rigid graphs among large scale data. Furthermore, the possible modes of correlations were distinguished in abnormal brain connections. Our goal was to find the degree of correlation between the affected regions and their simultaneous occurrence over time. We can take advantage of this to diagnose brain diseases or show the ability of the nervous system to modify brain topology at all angles and brain plasticity according to input stimuli. In this study, we particularly focused on Alzheimer's disease.
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- Jalal Mirakhorli
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Medical Genetic Laboratory, Iranian Comprehensive Hemophilia Care Center (ICHCC), Tehran, Iran
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Zhuang X, Yang Z, Mishra V, Sreenivasan K, Bernick C, Cordes D. Single-scale time-dependent window-sizes in sliding-window dynamic functional connectivity analysis: A validation study. Neuroimage 2020; 220:117111. [PMID: 32615255 PMCID: PMC7594665 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Revised: 06/19/2020] [Accepted: 06/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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During the past ten years, dynamic functional connectivity (FC) has been extensively studied using the sliding-window method. A fixed window-size is usually selected heuristically, since no consensus exists yet on choice of the optimal window-size. Furthermore, without a known ground-truth, the validity of the computed dynamic FC remains unclear and questionable. In this study, we computed single-scale time-dependent (SSTD) window-sizes for the sliding-window method. SSTD window-sizes were based on the frequency content at every time point of a time series and were computed without any prior information. Therefore, they were time-dependent and data-driven. Using simulated sinusoidal time series with frequency shifts, we demonstrated that SSTD window-sizes captured the time-dependent period (inverse of frequency) information at every time point. We further validated the dynamic FC values computed with SSTD window-sizes with both a classification analysis using fMRI data with a low sampling rate and a regression analysis using fMRI data with a high sampling rate. Specifically, we achieved both a higher classification accuracy in predicting cognitive impairment status in fighters and a larger explained behavioral variance in healthy young adults when using dynamic FC matrices computed with SSTD window-sizes as features, as compared to using dynamic FC matrices computed with the conventional fixed window-sizes. Overall, our study computed and validated SSTD window-sizes in the sliding-window method for dynamic FC analysis. Our results demonstrate that dynamic FC matrices computed with SSTD window-sizes can capture more temporal dynamic information related to behavior and cognitive function.
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- Xiaowei Zhuang
- Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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- Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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- Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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- Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV, USA; UW Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV, USA; University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
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de Vos F, Schouten TM, Koini M, Bouts MJRJ, Feis RA, Lechner A, Schmidt R, van Buchem MA, Verhey FRJ, Olde Rikkert MGM, Scheltens P, de Rooij M, van der Grond J, Rombouts SARB. Pre-trained MRI-based Alzheimer's disease classification models to classify memory clinic patients. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2020; 27:102303. [PMID: 32554321 PMCID: PMC7303669 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2019] [Revised: 05/29/2020] [Accepted: 05/30/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Multimodal MRI AD classification models were pre-trained on AD patients and controls. Generalisation of these models was tested on a multi-centre memory clinic data set. AD scores were assigned to AD patients, MCI patients and memory complainers. Anatomical MRI performed better than diffusion MRI and resting state fMRI. Combining imaging modalities did not improve the results over anatomical MRI only.
Anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), diffusion MRI and resting state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) have been used for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) classification. These scans are typically used to build models for discriminating AD patients from control subjects, but it is not clear if these models can also discriminate AD in diverse clinical populations as found in memory clinics. To study this, we trained MRI-based AD classification models on a single centre data set consisting of AD patients (N = 76) and controls (N = 173), and used these models to assign AD scores to subjective memory complainers (N = 67), mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients (N = 61), and AD patients (N = 61) from a multi-centre memory clinic data set. The anatomical MRI scans were used to calculate grey matter density, subcortical volumes and cortical thickness, the diffusion MRI scans were used to calculate fractional anisotropy, mean, axial and radial diffusivity, and the rs-fMRI scans were used to calculate functional connectivity between resting state networks and amplitude of low frequency fluctuations. Within the multi-centre memory clinic data set we removed scan site differences prior to applying the models. For all models, on average, the AD patients were assigned the highest AD scores, followed by MCI patients, and later followed by SMC subjects. The anatomical MRI models performed best, and the best performing anatomical MRI measure was grey matter density, separating SMC subjects from MCI patients with an AUC of 0.69, MCI patients from AD patients with an AUC of 0.70, and SMC patients from AD patients with an AUC of 0.86. The diffusion MRI models did not generalise well to the memory clinic data, possibly because of large scan site differences. The functional connectivity model separated SMC subjects and MCI patients relatively good (AUC = 0.66). The multimodal MRI model did not improve upon the anatomical MRI model. In conclusion, we showed that the grey matter density model generalises best to memory clinic subjects. When also considering the fact that grey matter density generally performs well in AD classification studies, this feature is probably the best MRI-based feature for AD diagnosis in clinical practice.
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- Frank de Vos
- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, the Netherlands.
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- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHeNS), Alzheimer Centrum Limburg, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
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- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Radboudumc Alzheimer Centre, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Department of Geriatric Medicine, Radboudumc Alzheimer Centre, Donders Institute for Medical Neurosciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, the Netherlands
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Khatri U, Kwon GR. An Efficient Combination among sMRI, CSF, Cognitive Score, and APOE ε4 Biomarkers for Classification of AD and MCI Using Extreme Learning Machine. COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND NEUROSCIENCE 2020; 2020:8015156. [PMID: 32565773 PMCID: PMC7292973 DOI: 10.1155/2020/8015156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2019] [Revised: 01/13/2020] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and a progressive neurodegenerative condition, characterized by a decline in cognitive function. Symptoms usually appear gradually and worsen over time, becoming severe enough to interfere with individual daily tasks. Thus, the accurate diagnosis of both AD and the prodromal stage (i.e., mild cognitive impairment (MCI)) is crucial for timely treatment. As AD is inherently dynamic, the relationship between AD indicators is unclear and varies over time. To address this issue, we first aimed at investigating differences in atrophic patterns between individuals with AD and MCI and healthy controls (HCs). Then we utilized multiple biomarkers, along with filter- and wrapper-based feature selection and an extreme learning machine- (ELM-) based approach, with 10-fold cross-validation for classification. Increasing efforts are focusing on the use of multiple biomarkers, which can be useful for the diagnosis of AD and MCI. However, optimum combinations have yet to be identified and most multimodal analyses use only volumetric measures obtained from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Anatomical structural MRI (sMRI) measures have also so far mostly been used separately. The full possibilities of using anatomical MRI for AD detection have thus yet to be explored. In this study, three measures (cortical thickness, surface area, and gray matter volume), obtained from sMRI through preprocessing for brain atrophy measurements; cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), for quantification of specific proteins; cognitive score, as a measure of cognitive performance; and APOE ε4 allele status were utilized. Our results show that a combination of specific biomarkers performs well, with accuracies of 97.31% for classifying AD vs. HC, 91.72% for MCI vs. HC, 87.91% for MCI vs. AD, and 83.38% for MCIs vs. MCIc, respectively, when evaluated using the proposed algorithm. Meanwhile, the areas under the curve (AUC) from the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves combining multiple biomarkers provided better classification performance. The proposed features combination and selection algorithm effectively classified AD and MCI, and MCIs vs. MCIc, the most challenging classification task, and therefore could increase the accuracy of AD classification in clinical practice. Furthermore, we compared the performance of the proposed method with SVM classifiers, using a cross-validation method with Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) datasets.
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- Uttam Khatri
- Department. of Information and Communication Engineering, Chosun University, 309 Pilmun-Daero, Dong-Gu, Gwangju 61452, Republic of Korea
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- Department. of Information and Communication Engineering, Chosun University, 309 Pilmun-Daero, Dong-Gu, Gwangju 61452, Republic of Korea
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Chen J, Chen G, Shu H, Chen G, Ward BD, Wang Z, Liu D, Antuono PG, Li SJ, Zhang Z. Predicting progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease on an individual subject basis by applying the CARE index across different independent cohorts. Aging (Albany NY) 2020; 11:2185-2201. [PMID: 31078129 PMCID: PMC6520016 DOI: 10.18632/aging.101883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2018] [Accepted: 03/20/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The purposes of this study are to investigate whether the Characterizing Alzheimer's disease Risk Events (CARE) index can accurately predict progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer's disease (AD) on an individual subject basis, and to investigate whether this model can be generalized to an independent cohort. Using an event-based probabilistic model approach to integrate widely available biomarkers from behavioral data and brain structural and functional imaging, we calculated the CARE index. We then applied the CARE index to identify which MCI individuals from the ADNI dataset progressed to AD during a three-year follow-up period. Subsequently, the CARE index was generalized to the prediction of MCI individuals from an independent Nanjing Aging and Dementia Study (NADS) dataset during the same time period. The CARE index achieved high prediction performance with 80.4% accuracy, 75% sensitivity, 82% specificity, and 0.809 area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) on MCI subjects from the ADNI dataset over three years, and a highly validated prediction performance with 87.5% accuracy, 81% sensitivity, 90% specificity, and 0.861 AUC on MCI subjects from the NADS dataset. In conclusion, the CARE index is highly accurate, sufficiently robust, and generalized for predicting which MCI individuals will develop AD over a three-year period. This suggests that the CARE index can be usefully applied to select individuals with MCI for clinical trials and to identify which individuals will convert from MCI to AD for administration of early disease-modifying treatment.
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- Jiu Chen
- Department of Neurology, Affiliated ZhongDa Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.,Institute of Neuropsychiatry, the Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Fourth Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.,Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated ZhongDa Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.,Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated ZhongDa Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated ZhongDa Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated ZhongDa Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.,Department of Psychology, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China
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- A complete listing of ADNI investigators can be found at at http://adni.loni.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/how_to_apply/ADNI_Acknowledgement_List.pdf
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Shi Y, Zeng W, Deng J, Nie W, Zhang Y. The Identification of Alzheimer's Disease Using Functional Connectivity Between Activity Voxels in Resting-State fMRI Data. IEEE JOURNAL OF TRANSLATIONAL ENGINEERING IN HEALTH AND MEDICINE 2020; 8:1400211. [PMID: 32355582 PMCID: PMC7186217 DOI: 10.1109/jtehm.2020.2985022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2019] [Revised: 01/04/2020] [Accepted: 03/28/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a common neurodegenerative disease occurring in the elderly population. The effective and accurate classification of AD symptoms by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has a great significance for the clinical diagnosis and prediction of AD patients. Methods: Therefore, this paper proposes a new method for identifying AD patients from healthy subjects by using functional connectivities (FCs) between the activity voxels in the brain based on fMRI data analysis. Firstly, independent component analysis is used to detect the activity voxels in the fMRI signals of AD patients and healthy subjects; Secondly, the FCs between the common activity voxels of the two groups are calculated, and then the FCs with significant differences are further identified by statistical analysis between them; Finally, the classification of AD patients from healthy subjects is realized by using FCs with significant differences as the feature samples in support vector machine. Results: The results show that the proposed identification method can obtain higher classification accuracy, and the FCs between activity voxels within prefrontal lobe as well as those between prefrontal and parietal lobes play an important role in the prediction of AD patients. Furthermore, we also find that more brain regions and much more voxels in some regions are activity in AD group compared with health control group. Conclusion: It has a great potential value for the AD pathogenesis mechanism study.
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- Yuhu Shi
- Information Engineering CollegeShanghai Maritime UniversityShanghai201306China
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- Information Engineering CollegeShanghai Maritime UniversityShanghai201306China
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- Information Engineering CollegeShanghai Maritime UniversityShanghai201306China
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- Information Engineering CollegeShanghai Maritime UniversityShanghai201306China
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- Information Engineering CollegeShanghai Maritime UniversityShanghai201306China
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Curado M, Escolano F, Lozano MA, Hancock ER. Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease: Detecting Asymmetries with a Return Random Walk Link Predictor. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 22:E465. [PMID: 33286239 PMCID: PMC7516949 DOI: 10.3390/e22040465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2020] [Revised: 04/04/2020] [Accepted: 04/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Alzheimer's disease has been extensively studied using undirected graphs to represent the correlations of BOLD signals in different anatomical regions through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). However, there has been relatively little analysis of this kind of data using directed graphs, which potentially offer the potential to capture asymmetries in the interactions between different anatomical brain regions. The detection of these asymmetries is relevant to detect the disease in an early stage. For this reason, in this paper, we analyze data extracted from fMRI images using the net4Lap algorithm to infer a directed graph from the available BOLD signals, and then seek to determine asymmetries between the left and right hemispheres of the brain using a directed version of the Return Random Walk (RRW). Experimental evaluation of this method reveals that it leads to the identification of anatomical brain regions known to be implicated in the early development of Alzheimer's disease in clinical studies.
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- Manuel Curado
- Polytechnic School, Catholic University of Murcia, 30107 Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Computer Science and AI, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain; (F.E.); (M.A.L.)
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- Department of Computer Science and AI, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain; (F.E.); (M.A.L.)
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- Department of Computer Science, University of York, York YO10 5GH, UK;
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Forouzannezhad P, Abbaspour A, Li C, Fang C, Williams U, Cabrerizo M, Barreto A, Andrian J, Rishe N, Curiel RE, Loewenstein D, Duara R, Adjouadi M. A Gaussian-based model for early detection of mild cognitive impairment using multimodal neuroimaging. J Neurosci Methods 2020; 333:108544. [PMID: 31838182 PMCID: PMC11163390 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.108544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2018] [Revised: 11/26/2019] [Accepted: 12/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND Diagnosis of early mild cognitive impairment (EMCI) as a prodromal stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD) with its delineation from the cognitively normal (CN) group remains a challenging but essential step for the planning of early treatment. Although several studies have focused on the MCI diagnosis, this study introduces the early stage of MCI to assess more thoroughly the earliest signs of disease manifestation and progression. NEW METHOD We used random forest feature selection model with a Gaussian-based algorithm to perform method evaluation. This integrated method serves to define multivariate normal distributions in order to classify different stages of AD, with the focus placed on detecting EMCI subjects in the most challenging classification of CN vs. EMCI. RESULTS Using 896 participants classified into the four categories of CN, EMCI, late mild cognitive impairment (LMCI) and AD, the results show that the EMCI group can be delineated from the CN group with a relatively high accuracy of 78.8% and sensitivity of 81.3%. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHOD(S) The feature selection model and classifier are compared with some other prominent algorithms. Although higher accuracy has been achieved using the Gaussian process (GP) model (78.8%) over the SVM classifier (75.6%) for CN vs. EMCI classification, with 0.05 being the cutoff for significance, and based on student's t-test, it was determined that the differences for accuracy, sensitivity, specificity between the GP method and support vector machine (SVM) are not statistically significant. CONCLUSION Addressing the challenging classification of CN vs. EMCI provides useful information to help clinicians and researchers determine essential measures that can help in the early detection of AD.
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- Parisa Forouzannezhad
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Aging, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA; 1Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Aging, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA; 1Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; Wien Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA
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- 1Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; Wien Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA; 1Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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