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Classification of Alzheimer's Disease Using Whole Brain Hierarchical Network


Abstract:

Regions of interest (ROIs) based classification has been widely investigated for analysis of brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images to assist the diagnosis of Alzh...Show More

Abstract:

Regions of interest (ROIs) based classification has been widely investigated for analysis of brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images to assist the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) including its early warning and developing stages, e.g., mild cognitive impairment (MCI) including MCI converted to AD (MCIc) and MCI not converted to AD (MCInc). Since an ROI representation of brain structures is obtained either by pre-definition or by adaptive parcellation, the corresponding ROI in different brains can be measured. However, due to noise and small sample size of MRI images, representations generated from single or multiple ROIs may not be sufficient to reveal the underlying anatomical differences between the groups of disease-affected patients and health controls (HC). In this paper, we employ a whole brain hierarchical network (WBHN) to represent each subject. The whole brain of each subject is divided into 90, 54, 14, and 1 regions based on Automated Anatomical Labeling (AAL) atlas. The connectivity between each pair of regions is computed in terms of Pearson's correlation coefficient and used as classification feature. Then, to reduce the dimensionality of features, we select the features with higher F- scores. Finally, we use multiple kernel boosting (MKBoost) algorithm to perform the classification. Our proposed method is evaluated on MRI images of 710 subjects (200 AD, 120 MCIc, 160 MCInc, and 230 HC) from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database. The experimental results show that our proposed method achieves an accuracy of 94.65 percent and an area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) of 0.954 forAD/HC classification, an accuracy of 89.63 percent and an AUC of 0.907 forAD/MCI classification, an accuracy of 85.79 percent and an AUC of 0.826 for MCI/HC classification, and an accuracy of 72.08 percent and an AUC of 0.716 for MCIc/MCInc classification, respectively. Our results demonstrate that our proposed me...
Published in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics ( Volume: 15, Issue: 2, 01 March-April 2018)
Page(s): 624 - 632
Date of Publication: 02 December 2016

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PubMed ID: 28114031

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