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Wang T, Bezerianos A, Cichocki A, Li J. Multikernel Capsule Network for Schizophrenia Identification. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CYBERNETICS 2022; 52:4741-4750. [PMID: 33259321 DOI: 10.1109/tcyb.2020.3035282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Schizophrenia seriously affects the quality of life. To date, both simple (e.g., linear discriminant analysis) and complex (e.g., deep neural network) machine-learning methods have been utilized to identify schizophrenia based on functional connectivity features. The existing simple methods need two separate steps (i.e., feature extraction and classification) to achieve the identification, which disables simultaneous tuning for the best feature extraction and classifier training. The complex methods integrate two steps and can be simultaneously tuned to achieve optimal performance, but these methods require a much larger amount of data for model training. To overcome the aforementioned drawbacks, we proposed a multikernel capsule network (MKCapsnet), which was developed by considering the brain anatomical structure. Kernels were set to match partition sizes of the brain anatomical structure in order to capture interregional connectivities at the varying scales. With the inspiration of the widely used dropout strategy in deep learning, we developed capsule dropout in the capsule layer to prevent overfitting of the model. The comparison results showed that the proposed method outperformed the state-of-the-art methods. Besides, we compared performances using different parameters and illustrated the routing process to reveal characteristics of the proposed method. MKCapsnet is promising for schizophrenia identification. Our study first utilized the capsule neural network for analyzing functional connectivity of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and proposed a novel multikernel capsule structure with the consideration of brain anatomical parcellation, which could be a new way to reveal brain mechanisms. In addition, we provided useful information in the parameter setting, which is informative for further studies using a capsule network for other neurophysiological signal classification.
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An efficient combination of quadruple biomarkers in binary classification using ensemble machine learning technique for early onset of Alzheimer disease. Neural Comput Appl 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00521-022-07076-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Ford JN, Sweeney EM, Skafida M, Glynn S, Amoashiy M, Lange DJ, Lin E, Chiang GC, Osborne JR, Pahlajani S, de Leon MJ, Ivanidze J. Heuristic scoring method utilizing FDG-PET statistical parametric mapping in the evaluation of suspected Alzheimer disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND MOLECULAR IMAGING 2021; 11:313-326. [PMID: 34513285 PMCID: PMC8414399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2021] [Accepted: 07/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Distinguishing frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) and Alzheimer Disease (AD) on FDG-PET based on qualitative review alone can pose a diagnostic challenge. SPM has been shown to improve diagnostic performance in research settings, but translation to clinical practice has been lacking. Our purpose was to create a heuristic scoring method based on statistical parametric mapping z-scores. We aimed to compare the performance of the scoring method to the initial qualitative read and a machine learning (ML)-based method as benchmarks. FDG-PET/CT or PET/MRI of 65 patients with suspected dementia were processed using SPM software, yielding z-scores from either whole brain (W) or cerebellar (C) normalization relative to a healthy cohort. A non-ML, heuristic scoring system was applied using region counts below a preset z-score cutoff. W z-scores, C z-scores, or WC z-scores (z-scores from both W and C normalization) served as features to build random forest models. The neurological diagnosis was used as the gold standard. The sensitivity of the non-ML scoring system and the random forest models to detect AD was higher than the initial qualitative read of the standard FDG-PET [0.89-1.00 vs. 0.22 (95% CI, 0-0.33)]. A categorical random forest model to distinguish AD, FTLD, and normal cases had similar accuracy than the non-ML scoring model (0.63 vs. 0.61). Our non-ML-based scoring system of SPM z-scores approximated the diagnostic performance of a ML-based method and demonstrated higher sensitivity in the detection of AD compared to qualitative reads. This approach may improve the diagnostic performance.
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- Jeremy N Ford
- Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General HospitalBoston, MA, United States
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Weill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, NY, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, NY, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, NY, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, NY, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Hospital for Special SurgeryNew York, NY, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, NY, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, NY, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, NY, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, NY, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, NY, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, NY, United States
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Perez-Gonzalez J, Jiménez-Ángeles L, Rojas Saavedra K, Barbará Morales E, Medina-Bañuelos V. Mild cognitive impairment classification using combined structural and diffusion imaging biomarkers. Phys Med Biol 2021; 66. [PMID: 34167090 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ac0e77] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2021] [Accepted: 06/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Alzheimer's disease is a multifactorial neurodegenerative disorder preceded by a prodromal stage called mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Early diagnosis of MCI is crucial for delaying the progression and optimizing the treatment. In this study we propose a random forest (RF) classifier to distinguish between MCI and healthy control subjects (HC), identifying the most relevant features computed from structural T1-weighted and diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images (sMRI and DWI), combined with neuro-psychological scores. To train the RF we used a set of 60 subjects (HC = 30, MCI = 30) drawn from the Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative database, while testing with unseen data was carried out on a 23-subjects Mexican cohort (HC = 12, MCI = 11). Features from hippocampus, thalamus and amygdala, for left and right hemispheres were fed to the RF, with the most relevant being previously selected by applying extra trees classifier and the mean decrease in impurity index. All the analyzed brain structures presented changes in sMRI and DWI features for MCI, but those computed from sMRI contribute the most to distinguish from HC. However, sMRI+DWI improves classification performance in training area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC = 93.5 ± 8%, accuracy = 88.8 ± 9%) and testing with unseen data (AUROC = 93.79%, accuracy = 91.3%), having a better performance when neuro-psychological scores were included. Compared to other classifiers the proposed RF provide the best performance for HC/MCI discrimination and the application of a feature selection step improves its performance. These findings imply that multimodal analysis gives better results than unimodal analysis and hence may be a useful tool to assist in early MCI diagnosis.
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- Jorge Perez-Gonzalez
- Unidad Académica del Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas en el Estado de Yucatán, UNAM, Yucatán, México
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- Department of Biomedical Systems Engineering, Engineering Faculty, UNAM, Mexico City, México
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- Health Sciences Department, Universidad del Valle de México, Mexico City, México
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Barbará-Morales E, Pérez-González J, Rojas-Saavedra KC, Medina-Bañuelos V. Evaluation of Brain Tortuosity Measurement for the Automatic Multimodal Classification of Subjects with Alzheimer's Disease. COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND NEUROSCIENCE 2020; 2020:4041832. [PMID: 32405294 PMCID: PMC7204386 DOI: 10.1155/2020/4041832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2019] [Revised: 08/14/2019] [Accepted: 08/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The 3D tortuosity determined in several brain areas is proposed as a new morphological biomarker (BM) to be considered in early detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD). It is measured using the sum of angles method and it has proven to be sensitive to anatomical changes that appear in gray and white matter and temporal and parietal lobes during mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Statistical analysis showed significant differences (p < 0.05) between tortuosity indices determined for healthy controls (HC) vs. MCI and HC vs. AD in most of the analyzed structures. Other clinically used BMs have also been incorporated in the analysis: beta-amyloid and tau protein CSF and plasma concentrations, as well as other image-extracted parameters. A classification strategy using random forest (RF) algorithms was implemented to discriminate between three samples of the studied populations, selected from the ADNI database. Classification rates considering only image-extracted parameters show an increase of 9.17%, when tortuosity is incorporated. An enhancement of 1.67% is obtained when BMs measured from several modalities are combined with tortuosity.
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- Eduardo Barbará-Morales
- Neuroimaging Laboratory (LINI), Electrical Engineering Department, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa (UAM-I), Mexico City, Mexico
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y Sistemas (IIMAS), Sede Mérida, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
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- Neuroimaging Laboratory (LINI), Electrical Engineering Department, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa (UAM-I), Mexico City, Mexico
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Saccà V, Sarica A, Novellino F, Barone S, Tallarico T, Filippelli E, Granata A, Chiriaco C, Bruno Bossio R, Valentino P, Quattrone A. Evaluation of machine learning algorithms performance for the prediction of early multiple sclerosis from resting-state FMRI connectivity data. Brain Imaging Behav 2020; 13:1103-1114. [PMID: 29992392 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-018-9926-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Machine Learning application on clinical data in order to support diagnosis and prognostic evaluation arouses growing interest in scientific community. However, choice of right algorithm to use was fundamental to perform reliable and robust classification. Our study aimed to explore if different kinds of Machine Learning technique could be effective to support early diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis and which of them presented best performance in distinguishing Multiple Sclerosis patients from control subjects. We selected following algorithms: Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, Naïve-Bayes, K-nearest-neighbor and Artificial Neural Network. We applied the Independent Component Analysis to resting-state functional-MRI sequence to identify brain networks. We found 15 networks, from which we extracted the mean signals used into classification. We performed feature selection tasks in all algorithms to obtain the most important variables. We showed that best discriminant network between controls and early Multiple Sclerosis, was the sensori-motor I, according to early manifestation of motor/sensorial deficits in Multiple Sclerosis. Moreover, in classification performance, Random Forest and Support Vector Machine showed same 5-fold cross-validation accuracies (85.7%) using only this network, resulting to be best approaches. We believe that these findings could represent encouraging step toward the translation to clinical diagnosis and prognosis.
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- Valeria Saccà
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University "Magna Graecia", Catanzaro, Italy
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- National Research Council, Institute of Bioimaging and Molecular Physiology (IBFM), Catanzaro, Italy
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- National Research Council, Institute of Bioimaging and Molecular Physiology (IBFM), Catanzaro, Italy.
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- Institute of Neurology, University Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Institute of Neurology, University Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy
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- National Research Council, Institute of Bioimaging and Molecular Physiology (IBFM), Catanzaro, Italy
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- Neurology Operating Unit Serraspiga, Provincial Health Authority, Cosenza, Italy
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- Institute of Neurology, University Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy
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- National Research Council, Institute of Bioimaging and Molecular Physiology (IBFM), Catanzaro, Italy
- Institute of Neurology, University Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy
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Sampath R, Indumathi J. Earlier detection of Alzheimer disease using N-fold cross validation approach. J Med Syst 2018; 42:217. [PMID: 30280260 DOI: 10.1007/s10916-018-1068-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2018] [Accepted: 09/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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According to the recent study, world-wide 40 million patients are affected by Alzheimer disease (AD) because it is one of the dangerous neurodegenerative disorders. This AD disease has less symptoms such as short term memory loss, mood swings, problem with language understanding and behavioral issues. Due to these low symptoms, AD disease is difficult to recognize in the early stage. So, the automated computer aided system need to be developed for recognizing the AD disease for minimizing the mortality rate. Initially, brain MRI image is collected from patients which are processed by applying different processing steps such as noise removal, segmentation, feature extraction, feature selection and classification. The captured MRI image has noise that is eliminated by applying the Lucy-Richardson approach which examines the each pixel in the image and removes the Gaussian noise which also eliminates the blur image. After eliminating the noise pixel from the image, affected region is segmented by Prolong adaptive exclusive analytical Atlas approach. From the segmented region, different GLCM statistical features are extracted and optimal features subset is selected by applying the hybrid wrapper filtering approach. This selected features are analyzed by N-fold cross validation approach which recognizes the AD related features successfully. Then the efficiency of the system is evaluated with the help of MATLAB based experimental results, in which Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset images are utilized for examining the efficiency in terms of sensitivity, specificity, ROC curve and accuracy.
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- Department of Information Science and Technology, College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, India
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Dimitriadis SI, Liparas D. How random is the random forest? Random forest algorithm on the service of structural imaging biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: from Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative (ADNI) database. Neural Regen Res 2018; 13:962-970. [PMID: 29926817 PMCID: PMC6022472 DOI: 10.4103/1673-5374.233433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Neuroinformatics is a fascinating research field that applies computational models and analytical tools to high dimensional experimental neuroscience data for a better understanding of how the brain functions or dysfunctions in brain diseases. Neuroinformaticians work in the intersection of neuroscience and informatics supporting the integration of various sub-disciplines (behavioural neuroscience, genetics, cognitive psychology, etc.) working on brain research. Neuroinformaticians are the pathway of information exchange between informaticians and clinicians for a better understanding of the outcome of computational models and the clinical interpretation of the analysis. Machine learning is one of the most significant computational developments in the last decade giving tools to neuroinformaticians and finally to radiologists and clinicians for an automatic and early diagnosis-prognosis of a brain disease. Random forest (RF) algorithm has been successfully applied to high-dimensional neuroimaging data for feature reduction and also has been applied to classify the clinical label of a subject using single or multi-modal neuroimaging datasets. Our aim was to review the studies where RF was applied to correctly predict the Alzheimer's disease (AD), the conversion from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and its robustness to overfitting, outliers and handling of non-linear data. Finally, we described our RF-based model that gave us the 1st position in an international challenge for automated prediction of MCI from MRI data.
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- Stavros I. Dimitriadis
- Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Neuroinformatics Group, Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
- Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Sarica A, Cerasa A, Quattrone A. Random Forest Algorithm for the Classification of Neuroimaging Data in Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review. Front Aging Neurosci 2017; 9:329. [PMID: 29056906 PMCID: PMC5635046 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 224] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2017] [Accepted: 09/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Objective: Machine learning classification has been the most important computational development in the last years to satisfy the primary need of clinicians for automatic early diagnosis and prognosis. Nowadays, Random Forest (RF) algorithm has been successfully applied for reducing high dimensional and multi-source data in many scientific realms. Our aim was to explore the state of the art of the application of RF on single and multi-modal neuroimaging data for the prediction of Alzheimer's disease. Methods: A systematic review following PRISMA guidelines was conducted on this field of study. In particular, we constructed an advanced query using boolean operators as follows: (“random forest” OR “random forests”) AND neuroimaging AND (“alzheimer's disease” OR alzheimer's OR alzheimer) AND (prediction OR classification). The query was then searched in four well-known scientific databases: Pubmed, Scopus, Google Scholar and Web of Science. Results: Twelve articles—published between the 2007 and 2017—have been included in this systematic review after a quantitative and qualitative selection. The lesson learnt from these works suggest that when RF was applied on multi-modal data for prediction of Alzheimer's disease (AD) conversion from the Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), it produces one of the best accuracies to date. Moreover, the RF has important advantages in terms of robustness to overfitting, ability to handle highly non-linear data, stability in the presence of outliers and opportunity for efficient parallel processing mainly when applied on multi-modality neuroimaging data, such as, MRI morphometric, diffusion tensor imaging, and PET images. Conclusions: We discussed the strengths of RF, considering also possible limitations and by encouraging further studies on the comparisons of this algorithm with other commonly used classification approaches, particularly in the early prediction of the progression from MCI to AD.
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- Alessia Sarica
- Institute of Bioimaging and Molecular Physiology, National Research Council, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Institute of Bioimaging and Molecular Physiology, National Research Council, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Institute of Bioimaging and Molecular Physiology, National Research Council, Catanzaro, Italy.,Institute of Neurology, University Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy
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