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Farhatullah, Chen X, Zeng D, Mehmood A, Khan R, Shahid F, Ibrahim MM. 3-Way hybrid analysis using clinical and magnetic resonance imaging for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Brain Res 2024; 1840:149021. [PMID: 38810771 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2024.149021] [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: 01/19/2024] [Revised: 05/02/2024] [Accepted: 05/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/31/2024]
Abstract
Alzheimer's is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that leads to cognitive impairment and ultimately death. To select the most effective treatment options, it is crucial to diagnose and classify the disease early, as current treatments can only delay its progression. However, previous research on Alzheimer's disease (AD) has had limitations, such as inaccuracies and reliance on a small, unbalanced binary dataset. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the early stages of AD using three multiclass datasets: OASIS, EEG, and ADNI MRI. The research consisted of three phases: pre-processing, feature extraction, and classification using hybrid learning techniques. For the OASIS and ADNI MRI datasets, we computed the mean RGB value and used an averaging filter to enhance the images. We balanced and augmented the dataset to increase its size. In the case of the EEG dataset, we applied a band-pass filter for digital filtering to reduce noise and also balanced the dataset using random oversampling. To extract and classify features, we utilized a hybrid technique consisting of four algorithms: AlexNet-MLP, AlexNet-ETC, AlexNet-AdaBoost, and AlexNet-NB. The results showed that the AlexNet-ETC hybrid algorithm achieved the highest accuracy rate of 95.32% for the OASIS dataset. In the case of the EEG dataset, the AlexNet-MLP hybrid algorithm outperformed other approaches with the highest accuracy of 97.71%. For the ADNI MRI dataset, the AlexNet-MLP hybrid algorithm achieved an accuracy rate of 92.59%. Comparing these results with the current state of the art demonstrates the effectiveness of our findings.
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- Farhatullah
- School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China.
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- School of Automation, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China.
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- School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China.
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321002, China.
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321002, China.
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321002, China.
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Minia 61519, Egypt.
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Li Y, Chen G, Wang G, Zhou Z, An S, Dai S, Jin Y, Zhang C, Zhang M, Yu F. Dominating Alzheimer's disease diagnosis with deep learning on sMRI and DTI-MD. Front Neurol 2024; 15:1444795. [PMID: 39211812 PMCID: PMC11358067 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2024.1444795] [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: 06/06/2024] [Accepted: 07/25/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024] Open
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Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive and irreversible neurodegenerative disorder that has become one of the major health concerns for the elderly. Computer-aided AD diagnosis can assist doctors in quickly and accurately determining patients' severity and affected regions. Methods In this paper, we propose a method called MADNet for computer-aided AD diagnosis using multimodal datasets. The method selects ResNet-10 as the backbone network, with dual-branch parallel extraction of discriminative features for AD classification. It incorporates long-range dependencies modeling using attention scores in the decision-making layer and fuses the features based on their importance across modalities. To validate the effectiveness of our proposed multimodal classification method, we construct a multimodal dataset based on the publicly available ADNI dataset and a collected XWNI dataset, which includes examples of AD, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and Cognitively Normal (CN). Results On this dataset, we conduct binary classification experiments of AD vs. CN and MCI vs. CN, and demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms other traditional single-modal deep learning models. Furthermore, this conclusion also confirms the necessity of using multimodal sMRI and DTI data for computer-aided AD diagnosis, as these two modalities complement and convey information to each other. We visualize the feature maps extracted by MADNet using Grad-CAM, generating heatmaps that guide doctors' attention to important regions in patients' sMRI, which play a crucial role in the development of AD, establishing trust between human experts and machine learning models. Conclusion We propose a simple yet effective multimodal deep convolutional neural network model MADNet that outperforms traditional deep learning methods that use a single-modality dataset for AD diagnosis.
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- Yuxia Li
- Department of Neurology, Tangshan Central Hospital, Hebei, China
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- Department of Neurology, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- JD Health International Inc., Beijing, China
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- JD Health International Inc., Beijing, China
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- College of Science, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- JD Health International Inc., Beijing, China
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- JD Health International Inc., Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, XuanWu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Kaur A, Mittal M, Bhatti JS, Thareja S, Singh S. A systematic literature review on the significance of deep learning and machine learning in predicting Alzheimer's disease. Artif Intell Med 2024; 154:102928. [PMID: 39029377 DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2024.102928] [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: 04/27/2023] [Revised: 04/15/2024] [Accepted: 06/27/2024] [Indexed: 07/21/2024]
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BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent cause of dementia, characterized by a steady decline in mental, behavioral, and social abilities and impairs a person's capacity for independent functioning. It is a fatal neurodegenerative disease primarily affecting older adults. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this literature review is to investigate various AD detection techniques, datasets, input modalities, algorithms, libraries, and performance evaluation metrics used to determine which model or strategy may provide superior performance. METHOD The initial search yielded 807 papers, but only 100 research articles were chosen after applying the inclusion-exclusion criteria. This SLR analyzed research items published between January 2019 and December 2022. The ACM, Elsevier, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, PubMed, Springer and Taylor & Francis were systematically searched. The current study considers articles that used Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), APOe4 genotype, Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) and Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) biomarkers. The study was performed following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. CONCLUSION According to the literature survey, most studies (n = 76) used the DL strategy. The datasets used by studies were primarily derived from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database. The majority of studies (n = 73) used single-modality neuroimaging data, while the remaining used multi-modal input data. In a multi-modality approach, the combination of MRI and PET scans is commonly preferred. Also, Regarding the algorithm used, Convolution Neural Network (CNN) showed the highest accuracy, 100 %, in classifying AD vs. CN subjects whereas the SVM was the most common ML algorithm, with a maximum accuracy of 99.82 %.
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- Arshdeep Kaur
- Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India
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- Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India
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- Dept. of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India
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- Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Natural Products, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India
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- Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India.
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Raj A, Mirzaei G. Reinforcement-Learning-Based Localization of Hippocampus for Alzheimer's Disease Detection. Diagnostics (Basel) 2023; 13:3292. [PMID: 37958188 PMCID: PMC10649327 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13213292] [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: 09/28/2023] [Revised: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 10/20/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023] Open
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder primarily impacting memory and cognitive functions. The hippocampus serves as a key biomarker associated with AD. In this study, we present an end-to-end automated approach for AD detection by introducing a reinforcement-learning-based technique to localize the hippocampus within structural MRI images. Subsequently, this localized hippocampus serves as input for a deep convolutional neural network for AD classification. We model the agent-environment interaction using a Deep Q-Network (DQN), encompassing both a convolutional Target Net and Policy Net. Furthermore, we introduce an integrated loss function that combines cross-entropy and contrastive loss to effectively train the classifier model. Our approach leverages a single optimal slice extracted from each subject's 3D sMRI, thereby reducing computational complexity while maintaining performance comparable to volumetric data analysis methods. To evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed localization and classification framework, we compare its performance to the results achieved by supervised models directly trained on ground truth hippocampal regions as input. The proposed approach demonstrates promising performance in terms of classification accuracy, F1-score, precision, and recall. It achieves an F1-score within an error margin of 3.7% and 1.1% and an accuracy within an error margin of 6.6% and 1.6% when compared to the supervised models trained directly on ground truth masks, all while achieving the highest recall score.
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- Aditya Raj
- Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA;
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- Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Marion, OH 43302, USA
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Illakiya T, Ramamurthy K, Siddharth MV, Mishra R, Udainiya A. AHANet: Adaptive Hybrid Attention Network for Alzheimer's Disease Classification Using Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Bioengineering (Basel) 2023; 10:714. [PMID: 37370645 PMCID: PMC10294993 DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering10060714] [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: 05/18/2023] [Revised: 05/27/2023] [Accepted: 06/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurological problem that causes brain atrophy and affects the memory and thinking skills of an individual. Accurate detection of AD has been a challenging research topic for a long time in the area of medical image processing. Detecting AD at its earliest stage is crucial for the successful treatment of the disease. The proposed Adaptive Hybrid Attention Network (AHANet) has two attention modules, namely Enhanced Non-Local Attention (ENLA) and Coordinate Attention. These modules extract global-level features and local-level features separately from the brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), thereby boosting the feature extraction power of the network. The ENLA module extracts spatial and contextual information on a global scale while also capturing important long-range dependencies. The Coordinate Attention module captures local features from the input images. It embeds positional information into the channel attention mechanism for enhanced feature extraction. Moreover, an Adaptive Feature Aggregation (AFA) module is proposed to fuse features from the global and local levels in an effective way. As a result of incorporating the above architectural enhancements into the DenseNet architecture, the proposed network exhibited better performance compared to the existing works. The proposed network was trained and tested on the ADNI dataset, yielding a classification accuracy of 98.53%.
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- T. Illakiya
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai 600127, India;
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- Centre for Cyber Physical Systems, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai 600127, India
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai 600127, India;
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- School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai 600127, India; (R.M.); (A.U.)
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- School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai 600127, India; (R.M.); (A.U.)
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Aleksandrova Y, Munkuev A, Mozhaitsev E, Suslov E, Tsypyshev D, Chaprov K, Begunov R, Volcho K, Salakhutdinov N, Neganova M. Elaboration of the Effective Multi-Target Therapeutic Platform for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease Based on Novel Monoterpene-Derived Hydroxamic Acids. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24119743. [PMID: 37298694 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24119743] [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: 04/26/2023] [Revised: 05/31/2023] [Accepted: 06/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Novel monoterpene-based hydroxamic acids of two structural types were synthesized for the first time. The first type consisted of compounds with a hydroxamate group directly bound to acyclic, monocyclic and bicyclic monoterpene scaffolds. The second type included hydroxamic acids connected with the monoterpene moiety through aliphatic (hexa/heptamethylene) or aromatic linkers. An in vitro analysis of biological activity demonstrated that some of these molecules had powerful HDAC6 inhibitory activity, with the presence of a linker area in the structure of compounds playing a key role. In particular, it was found that hydroxamic acids containing a hexa- and heptamethylene linker and (-)-perill fragment in the Cap group exhibit excellent inhibitory activity against HDAC6 with IC50 in the submicromolar range from 0.56 ± 0.01 µM to 0.74 ± 0.02 µM. The results of the study of antiradical activity demonstrated the presence of moderate ability for some hydroxamic acids to scavenge 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and 2ROO• radicals. The correlation coefficient between the DPPH radical scavenging activity and oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) value was R2 = 0.8400. In addition, compounds with an aromatic linker based on para-substituted cinnamic acids, having a monocyclic para-menthene skeleton as a Cap group, 35a, 38a, 35b and 38b, demonstrated a significant ability to suppress the aggregation of the pathological β-amyloid peptide 1-42. The 35a lead compound with a promising profile of biological activity, discovered in the in vitro experiments, demonstrated neuroprotective effects on in vivo models of Alzheimer's disease using 5xFAD transgenic mice. Together, the results obtained demonstrate a potential strategy for the use of monoterpene-derived hydroxamic acids for treatment of various aspects of Alzheimer's disease.
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- Yulia Aleksandrova
- Institute of Physiologically Active Compounds at Federal Research Center of Problems of Chemical Physics and Medicinal Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Severnij Pr. 1, Chernogolovka 142432, Russia
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, N. N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave., 9, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, N. N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave., 9, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, N. N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave., 9, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, N. N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave., 9, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Physiologically Active Compounds at Federal Research Center of Problems of Chemical Physics and Medicinal Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Severnij Pr. 1, Chernogolovka 142432, Russia
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- Biology and Ecology Faculty of P. G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Matrosova Ave., 9, Yaroslavl 150003, Russia
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, N. N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave., 9, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, N. N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave., 9, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Physiologically Active Compounds at Federal Research Center of Problems of Chemical Physics and Medicinal Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Severnij Pr. 1, Chernogolovka 142432, Russia
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Wang Q, Xu R. AANet: Attentive All-level Fusion Deep Neural Network Approach for Multi-modality Early Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis. AMIA ... ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS. AMIA SYMPOSIUM 2023; 2022:1125-1134. [PMID: 37128453 PMCID: PMC10148311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Multi-modality deep learning models have recently been used for disease diagnosis; however, effectively integrating diverse, complex, and heterogeneous data remains a challenge. In this study, we propose a novel system, attentive All-level Fusion(AANet), to fuse multi-level and multi-modality patient data, including 3D brain images, patient demographics, genetics, and blood biomarkers into a deep-learning framework for disease diagnosis, and tested it for early Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. We first constructed a deep learning feature pyramid network for whole-brain brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) feature extraction. We then leveraged the self-attention-based all-level fusion method by automatically adjusting weights of all-level MRI image features, patient demographics, blood biomarkers, and genetic data. We trained and tested AANet on data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative for the task of classifying mild cognitive impairment from Alzheimer's disease, a challenging task in early Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. AANet achieved an accuracy of 90.5%, outperformed several state-of-the-art methods. In summary, AANet provides an advanced methodological framework for multi-modality-based disease diagnosis.
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- Qinyong Wang
- Center of Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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- Center of Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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Tang Y, Yan Y, Mao J, Ni J, Qing H. The hippocampus associated GABAergic neural network impairment in early-stage of Alzheimer's disease. Ageing Res Rev 2023; 86:101865. [PMID: 36716975 DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2023.101865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 01/13/2023] [Accepted: 01/25/2023] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the commonest neurodegenerative disease with slow progression. Pieces of evidence suggest that the GABAergic system is impaired in the early stage of AD, leading to hippocampal neuron over-activity and further leading to memory and cognitive impairment in patients with AD. However, the precise impairment mechanism of the GABAergic system on the pathogenesis of AD is still unclear. The impairment of neural networks associated with the GABAergic system is tightly associated with AD. Therefore, we describe the roles played by hippocampus-related GABAergic circuits and their impairments in AD neuropathology. In addition, we give our understand on the process from GABAergic circuit impairment to cognitive and memory impairment, since recent studies on astrocyte in AD plays an important role behind cognition dysfunction caused by GABAergic circuit impairment, which helps better understand the GABAergic system and could open up innovative AD therapy.
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- Yuanhong Tang
- Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine and Biotherapy, School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine and Biotherapy, School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Zhengzhou Tobacco Institute of China National Tobacco Company, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine and Biotherapy, School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine and Biotherapy, School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China; Department of Biology, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, Shenzhen 518172, China.
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Katabathula S, Davis PB, Xu R. Comorbidity-driven multi-modal subtype analysis in mild cognitive impairment of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement 2023; 19:1428-1439. [PMID: 36166485 PMCID: PMC10040466 DOI: 10.1002/alz.12792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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BACKGROUND Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a heterogeneous condition with high individual variabilities in clinical outcomes driven by patient demographics, genetics, brain structure features, blood biomarkers, and comorbidities. Multi-modality data-driven approaches have been used to discover MCI subtypes; however, disease comorbidities have not been included as a modality though multiple diseases including hypertension are well-known risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD). The aim of this study was to examine MCI heterogeneity in the context of AD-related comorbidities along with other AD-relevant features and biomarkers. METHODS A total of 325 MCI subjects with 32 AD-relevant comorbidities and features were considered. Mixed-data clustering is applied to discover and compare MCI subtypes with and without including AD-related comorbidities. Finally, the relevance of each comorbidity-driven subtype was determined by examining their MCI to AD disease prognosis, descriptive statistics, and conversion rates. RESULTS We identified four (five) MCI subtypes: poor-, average-, good-, and best-AD prognosis by including comorbidities (without including comorbidities). We demonstrated that comorbidity-driven MCI subtypes differed from those identified without comorbidity information. We further demonstrated the clinical relevance of comorbidity-driven MCI subtypes. Among the four comorbidity-driven MCI subtypes there were substantial differences in the proportions of participants who reverted to normal function, remained stable, or converted to AD. The groups showed different behaviors, having significantly different MCI to AD prognosis, significantly different means for cognitive test-related and plasma features, and by the proportion of comorbidities. CONCLUSIONS Our study indicates that AD comorbidities should be considered along with other diverse AD-relevant characteristics to better understand MCI heterogeneity.
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- Sreevani Katabathula
- Center for Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Center for Community Health Integration, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Center for Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Liu F, Wang H, Liang SN, Jin Z, Wei S, Li X. MPS-FFA: A multiplane and multiscale feature fusion attention network for Alzheimer's disease prediction with structural MRI. Comput Biol Med 2023; 157:106790. [PMID: 36958239 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.106790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2022] [Revised: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 03/11/2023] [Indexed: 03/17/2023]
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Structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) is a popular technique that is widely applied in Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis. However, only a few structural atrophy areas in sMRI scans are highly associated with AD. The degree of atrophy in patients' brain tissues and the distribution of lesion areas differ among patients. Therefore, a key challenge in sMRI-based AD diagnosis is identifying discriminating atrophy features. Hence, we propose a multiplane and multiscale feature-level fusion attention (MPS-FFA) model. The model has three components, (1) A feature encoder uses a multiscale feature extractor with hybrid attention layers to simultaneously capture and fuse multiple pathological features in the sagittal, coronal, and axial planes. (2) A global attention classifier combines clinical scores and two global attention layers to evaluate the feature impact scores and balance the relative contributions of different feature blocks. (3) A feature similarity discriminator minimizes the feature similarities among heterogeneous labels to enhance the ability of the network to discriminate atrophy features. The MPS-FFA model provides improved interpretability for identifying discriminating features using feature visualization. The experimental results on the baseline sMRI scans from two databases confirm the effectiveness (e.g., accuracy and generalizability) of our method in locating pathological locations. The source code is available at https://github.com/LiuFei-AHU/MPSFFA.
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- Fei Liu
- Anhui Provincial International Joint Research Center for Advanced Technology in Medical Imaging, Anhui University, Hefei, China; School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China
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- Anhui Provincial International Joint Research Center for Advanced Technology in Medical Imaging, Anhui University, Hefei, China; School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China.
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- School of Engineering, Monash University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Anhui Provincial International Joint Research Center for Advanced Technology in Medical Imaging, Anhui University, Hefei, China
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- Anhui Provincial International Joint Research Center for Advanced Technology in Medical Imaging, Anhui University, Hefei, China
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- Anhui Provincial International Joint Research Center for Advanced Technology in Medical Imaging, Anhui University, Hefei, China; School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China
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Tian Y, Cook JJ, Johnson GA. Restoring morphology of light sheet microscopy data based on magnetic resonance histology. Front Neurosci 2023; 16:1011895. [PMID: 36685227 PMCID: PMC9846533 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.1011895] [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: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The combination of cellular-resolution whole brain light sheet microscopy (LSM) images with an annotated atlas enables quantitation of cellular features in specific brain regions. However, most existing methods register LSM data with existing canonical atlases, e.g., The Allen Brain Atlas (ABA), which have been generated from tissue that has been distorted by removal from the skull, fixation and physical handling. This limits the accuracy of the regional morphologic measurement. Here, we present a method to combine LSM data with magnetic resonance histology (MRH) of the same specimen to restore the morphology of the LSM images to the in-skull geometry. Our registration pipeline which maps 3D LSM big data (terabyte per dataset) to MRH of the same mouse brain provides registration with low displacement error in ∼10 h with limited manual input. The registration pipeline is optimized using multiple stages of transformation at multiple resolution scales. A three-step procedure including pointset initialization, automated ANTs registration with multiple optimized transformation stages, and finalized application of the transforms on high-resolution LSM data has been integrated into a simple, structured, and robust workflow. Excellent agreement has been seen between registered LSM data and reference MRH data both locally and globally. This workflow has been applied to a collection of datasets with varied combinations of MRH contrasts from diffusion tensor images and LSM with varied immunohistochemistry, providing a routine method for streamlined registration of LSM images to MRH. Lastly, the method maps a reduced set of the common coordinate framework (CCFv3) labels from the Allen Brain Atlas onto the geometrically corrected full resolution LSM data. The pipeline maintains the individual brain morphology and allows more accurate regional annotations and measurements of volumes and cell density.
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Katabathula S, Davis PB, Xu R. Sex-Specific Heterogeneity of Mild Cognitive Impairment Identified Based on Multi-Modal Data Analysis. J Alzheimers Dis 2023; 91:233-243. [PMID: 36404544 PMCID: PMC11391386 DOI: 10.3233/jad-220600] [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] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a prodromal phase of Alzheimer's disease (AD), is heterogeneous with different rates and risks of progression to AD. There are significant gender disparities in the susceptibility, prognosis, and outcomes in patients with MCI, with female being disproportionately negatively impacted. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify sex-specific heterogeneity of MCI using multi-modality data and examine the differences in the respective MCI subtypes with different prognostic outcomes or different risks for MCI to AD conversion. METHODS A total of 325 MCI subjects (146 women, 179 men) and 30 relevant features were considered. Mixed-data clustering was applied to women and men separately to discover gender-specific MCI subtypes. Gender differences were compared in the respective subtypes of MCI by examining their MCI to AD disease prognosis, descriptive statistics, and conversion rates. RESULTS We identified three MCI subtypes: poor-, good-, and best-prognosis for women and for men, separately. The subtype-wise comparison (for example, poor-prognosis subtype in women versus poor-prognosis subtype in men) showed significantly different means for brain volumetric, cognitive test-related, also for the proportion of comorbidities. Also, there were substantial gender differences in the proportions of participants who reverted to normal function, remained stable, or converted to AD. CONCLUSION Analyzing sex-specific heterogeneity of MCI offers the opportunity to advance the understanding of the pathophysiology of both MCI and AD, allows stratification of risk in clinical trials of interventions, and suggests gender-based early intervention with targeted treatment for patients at risk of developing AD.
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- Sreevani Katabathula
- Center for Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Center for Community Health Integration, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Center for Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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McCombe N, Bamrah J, Sanchez‐Bornot JM, Finn DP, McClean PL, Wong‐Lin K. Alzheimer's disease classification using cluster-based labelling for graph neural network on heterogeneous data. Healthc Technol Lett 2022; 9:102-109. [PMID: 36514476 PMCID: PMC9731537 DOI: 10.1049/htl2.12037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2022] [Revised: 09/19/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis do not always correlate reliably with cognitive symptoms, making clinical diagnosis inconsistent. In this study, the performance of a graphical neural network (GNN) classifier based on data-driven diagnostic classes from unsupervised clustering on heterogeneous data is compared to the performance of a classifier using clinician diagnosis as an outcome. Unsupervised clustering on tau-positron emission tomography (PET) and cognitive and functional assessment data was performed. Five clusters embedded in a non-linear uniform manifold approximation and project (UMAP) space were identified. The individual clusters revealed specific feature characteristics with respect to clinical diagnosis of AD, gender, family history, age, and underlying neurological risk factors (NRFs). In particular, one cluster comprised mainly diagnosed AD cases. All cases within this cluster were re-labelled AD cases. The re-labelled cases are characterized by high cerebrospinal fluid amyloid beta (CSF Aβ) levels at a younger age, even though Aβ data was not used for clustering. A GNN model was trained using the re-labelled data with a multiclass area-under-the-curve (AUC) of 95.2%, higher than the AUC of a GNN trained on clinician diagnosis (91.7%; p = 0.02). Overall, our work suggests that more objective cluster-based diagnostic labels combined with GNN classification may have value in clinical risk stratification and diagnosis of AD.
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- Niamh McCombe
- Intelligent Systems Research CentreSchool of ComputingEngineering and Intelligent SystemsUlster UniversityDerry∼LondonderryNorthern IrelandUK
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- Intelligent Systems Research CentreSchool of ComputingEngineering and Intelligent SystemsUlster UniversityDerry∼LondonderryNorthern IrelandUK
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- Intelligent Systems Research CentreSchool of ComputingEngineering and Intelligent SystemsUlster UniversityDerry∼LondonderryNorthern IrelandUK
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- Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Galway Neuroscience Centre, Centre for Pain Research, and School of MedicineNational University of Ireland GalwayGalwayIreland
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- Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Clinical Translational Research and Innovation Centre (C‐TRIC)Ulster UniversityDerry∼LondonderryNorthern IrelandUK
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- Intelligent Systems Research CentreSchool of ComputingEngineering and Intelligent SystemsUlster UniversityDerry∼LondonderryNorthern IrelandUK
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Genish T, Kavitha S, Vijayalakshmi S. A Precise Computational Method for Hippocampus Segmentation from MRI of Brain to Assist Physicians in the Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPLICATIONS 2022. [DOI: 10.1142/s1469026822500201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Hippocampus segmentation on magnetic resonance imaging is more significant for diagnosis, treatment and analyzing of neuropsychiatric disorders. Automatic segmentation is an active research field. Previous state-of-the-art hippocampus segmentation methods train their methods on healthy or Alzheimer’s disease patients from public datasets. It arises the question whether these methods are capable for recognizing the hippocampus in a different domain. Therefore, this study proposes a precise computational method for hippocampus segmentation from MRI of brain to assist physicians in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (HCS-MRI-DAD-LBP). Initially, the input images are pre-processed by Trimmed mean filter for image quality enhancement. Then the pre-processed images are given to ROI detection, ROI detection utilizes Weber’s law which determines the luminance factor of the image. In the region extraction process, Chan–Vese active contour model (ACM) and level sets are used (UACM). Finally, local binary pattern (LBP) is utilized to remove the erroneous pixel that maximizes the segmentation accuracy. The proposed model is implemented in MATLAB, and its performance is analyzed with performance metrics, like precision, recall, mean, variance, standard deviation and disc similarity coefficient. The proposed HCS-MRI-DAD-LBP method attains in OASIS dataset provides high disc similarity coefficient of 12.64%, 10.11% and 1.03% compared with the existing methods, like HCS-DAS-MLT, HCS-DAS-RNN and HCS-DAS-GMM and in ADNI dataset provides high precision of 20%, 9.09% and 1.05% compared with existing methods like HCS-MRI-DAD-CNN-ADNI, HCS-MRI-DAD-MCNN-ADNI and HCS-MRI-DAD-CNN-RNN-ADNI, respectively.
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- T. Genish
- School of Computing Science, KPR College of Arts Science and Research, Avinashi Road, Coimbatore, India
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- PG and Research, Department of Computer Science, Sakthi College of Arts and Science for Women, Oddanchatram, Dindigul, India
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- Department of Data Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune, Lavasa Campus, India
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Duan K, Ma Y, Tan J, Miao Y, Zhang Q. Identification of genetic molecular markers and immune infiltration characteristics of Alzheimer's disease through weighted gene co-expression network analysis. Front Neurol 2022; 13:947781. [PMID: 36071897 PMCID: PMC9441600 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2022.947781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2022] [Accepted: 07/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that leads to cognitive impairment and memory loss. Currently, the pathogenesis and underlying causative genes of AD remain unclear, and there exists no effective treatment for this disease. This study explored AD-related diagnostic and therapeutic biomarkers from the perspective of immune infiltration by analyzing public data from the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus database. Method In this study, weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) was conducted to identify modules and hub genes contributing to AD development. A protein–protein interaction network was constructed when the genes in the modules were enriched and examined by Gene Ontology (GO)/Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) analysis. Furthermore, a gene network was established using topological WGCNA, from which five hub genes were selected. Logistic regression analysis and receiver operating characteristic curve analysis were performed to explore the clinical value of genes in AD diagnosis. The genes in the core module intersected with the hub genes, and four intersection genes (ATP2A2, ATP6V1D, CAP2, and SYNJ1) were selected. These four genes were enriched by gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA). Finally, an immune infiltration analysis was performed. Results The GO/KEGG analysis suggested that genes in the core module played a role in the differentiation and growth of neural cells and in the transmission of neurotransmitters. The GSEA of core genes showed that these four genes were mainly enriched in immune/infection pathways (e.g., cholera infection and Helicobacter pylori infection pathways) and other metabolic pathways. An investigation of immune infiltration characteristics revealed that activated mast cells, regulatory T cells, plasma cells, neutrophils, T follicular helper cells, CD8 T cells, resting memory CD4 T cells, and M1 macrophages were the core immune cells contributing to AD progression. qRT-PCR analysis showed that the ATP6V1D is upregulated in AD. Conclusion The results of enrichment and immuno-osmotic analyses indicated that immune pathways and immune cells played an important role in the occurrence and development of AD. The selected key genes were used as biomarkers related to the pathogenesis of AD to further explore the pathways and cells, which provided new perspectives on therapeutic targets in AD.
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- KeFei Duan
- Department of Geriatrics, Geriatrics Institute, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Geriatrics, Geriatrics Institute, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Geriatrics, Geriatrics Institute, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Urology, Tianjin Institute of Urology, The Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Geriatrics, Geriatrics Institute, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
- *Correspondence: Qiang Zhang
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Baghdadi NA, Malki A, Balaha HM, Badawy M, Elhosseini M. A 3C-TL-GTO: Alzheimer Automatic Accurate Classification Using Transfer Learning and Artificial Gorilla Troops Optimizer. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 22:s22114250. [PMID: 35684871 PMCID: PMC9185328 DOI: 10.3390/s22114250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2022] [Revised: 05/24/2022] [Accepted: 05/28/2022] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic disease that affects the elderly. There are many different types of dementia, but Alzheimer's disease is one of the leading causes of death. AD is a chronic brain disorder that leads to problems with language, disorientation, mood swings, bodily functions, memory loss, cognitive decline, mood or personality changes, and ultimately death due to dementia. Unfortunately, no cure has yet been developed for it, and it has no known causes. Clinically, imaging tools can aid in the diagnosis, and deep learning has recently emerged as an important component of these tools. Deep learning requires little or no image preprocessing and can infer an optimal data representation from raw images without prior feature selection. As a result, they produce a more objective and less biased process. The performance of a convolutional neural network (CNN) is primarily affected by the hyperparameters chosen and the dataset used. A deep learning model for classifying Alzheimer's patients has been developed using transfer learning and optimized by Gorilla Troops for early diagnosis. This study proposes the A3C-TL-GTO framework for MRI image classification and AD detection. The A3C-TL-GTO is an empirical quantitative framework for accurate and automatic AD classification, developed and evaluated with the Alzheimer's Dataset (four classes of images) and the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). The proposed framework reduces the bias and variability of preprocessing steps and hyperparameters optimization to the classifier model and dataset used. Our strategy, evaluated on MRIs, is easily adaptable to other imaging methods. According to our findings, the proposed framework was an excellent instrument for this task, with a significant potential advantage for patient care. The ADNI dataset, an online dataset on Alzheimer's disease, was used to obtain magnetic resonance imaging (MR) brain images. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves 96.65% accuracy for the Alzheimer's Dataset and 96.25% accuracy for the ADNI dataset. Moreover, a better performance in terms of accuracy is demonstrated over other state-of-the-art approaches.
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- Nadiah A. Baghdadi
- College of Nursing, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia;
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- College of Computer Science and Engineering, Taibah University, Yanbu 46421, Saudi Arabia; (A.M.); (M.E.)
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- Computers and Control Systems Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt;
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- Computers and Control Systems Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt;
- Correspondence:
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- College of Computer Science and Engineering, Taibah University, Yanbu 46421, Saudi Arabia; (A.M.); (M.E.)
- Computers and Control Systems Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt;
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Liu R, Li G, Gao M, Cai W, Ning X. Large Margin and Local Structure Preservation Sparse Representation Classifier for Alzheimer’s Magnetic Resonance Imaging Classification. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:916020. [PMID: 35693338 PMCID: PMC9177229 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.916020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive dementia in which the brain shrinks as the disease progresses. The use of machine learning and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the early diagnosis of AD has a high probability of clinical value and social significance. Sparse representation classifier (SRC) is widely used in MRI image classification. However, the traditional SRC only considers the reconstruction error and classification error of the dictionary, and does not consider the global and local structural information between images, which results in unsatisfactory classification performance. Therefore, a large margin and local structure preservation sparse representation classifier (LMLS-SRC) is developed in this manuscript. The LMLS-SRC algorithm uses the classification large margin term based on the representation coefficient, which results in compactness between representation coefficients of the same class and a large margin between representation coefficients of different classes. The LMLS-SRC algorithm uses local structure preservation term to inherit the manifold structure of the original data. In addition, the LMLS-SRC algorithm imposes the ℓ2,1-norm on the representation coefficients to enhance the sparsity and robustness of the model. Experiments on the KAGGLE Alzheimer’s dataset show that the LMLS-SRC algorithm can effectively diagnose non AD, moderate AD, mild AD, and very mild AD.
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- Runmin Liu
- College of Sports Engineering and Information Technology, Wuhan Sports University, Wuhan, China
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- College of Sports Engineering and Information Technology, Wuhan Sports University, Wuhan, China
- *Correspondence: Guangjun Li,
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- College of Sports Science and Technology, Wuhan Sports University, Wuhan, China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
- AiTech Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Changsha, China
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- Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Ren W, Ji B, Guan Y, Cao L, Ni R. Recent Technical Advances in Accelerating the Clinical Translation of Small Animal Brain Imaging: Hybrid Imaging, Deep Learning, and Transcriptomics. Front Med (Lausanne) 2022; 9:771982. [PMID: 35402436 PMCID: PMC8987112 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2022.771982] [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: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 02/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Small animal models play a fundamental role in brain research by deepening the understanding of the physiological functions and mechanisms underlying brain disorders and are thus essential in the development of therapeutic and diagnostic imaging tracers targeting the central nervous system. Advances in structural, functional, and molecular imaging using MRI, PET, fluorescence imaging, and optoacoustic imaging have enabled the interrogation of the rodent brain across a large temporal and spatial resolution scale in a non-invasively manner. However, there are still several major gaps in translating from preclinical brain imaging to the clinical setting. The hindering factors include the following: (1) intrinsic differences between biological species regarding brain size, cell type, protein expression level, and metabolism level and (2) imaging technical barriers regarding the interpretation of image contrast and limited spatiotemporal resolution. To mitigate these factors, single-cell transcriptomics and measures to identify the cellular source of PET tracers have been developed. Meanwhile, hybrid imaging techniques that provide highly complementary anatomical and molecular information are emerging. Furthermore, deep learning-based image analysis has been developed to enhance the quantification and optimization of the imaging protocol. In this mini-review, we summarize the recent developments in small animal neuroimaging toward improved translational power, with a focus on technical improvement including hybrid imaging, data processing, transcriptomics, awake animal imaging, and on-chip pharmacokinetics. We also discuss outstanding challenges in standardization and considerations toward increasing translational power and propose future outlooks.
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- Wuwei Ren
- School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Energy Efficient and Custom AI IC, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiopharmacy and Molecular Imaging, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- PET Center, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Changes Tech, Ltd., Shanghai, China
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zürich and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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