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Combining PET images and neuropsychological test data for automatic diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
Segovia-Román, Fermín; Bastin, Christine; Salmon, Eric et al.
2014In PLoS ONE, 9 (2)
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Keywords :
Alzheimer’s disease; machine learning; psychological scores
Abstract :
[en] In recent years, several approaches to develop computer aided diagnosis (CAD) systems for dementia have been proposed. Some of these systems analyze neurological brain images by means of machine learning algorithms in order to find the patterns that characterize the disorder, and a few combine several imaging modalities to improve the diagnostic accuracy. However, they usually do not use neuropsychological testing data in that analysis. The purpose of this work is to measure the advantages of using not only neuroimages as data source in CAD systems for dementia but also neuropsychological scores. To this aim, we compared the accuracy rates achieved by systems that use neuropsychological scores beside the imaging data in the classification step and systems that use only one of these data sources. In order to address the small sample size problem and facilitate the data combination, a dimensionality reduction step (implemented using three different algorithms) was also applied on the imaging data. After each image is summarized in a reduced set of image features, the data sources were combined and classified using three different data combination approaches and a Support Vector Machine classifier. That way, by testing different dimensionality reduction methods and several data combination approaches, we aim not only highlighting the advantages of using neuropsychological scores in the classification, but also implementing the most accurate computer system for early dementia detention. The accuracy of the CAD systems were estimated using a database with records from 46 subjects, diagnosed with MCI or AD. A peak accuracy rate of 89% was obtained. In all cases the accuracy achieved using both, neuropsychological scores and imaging data, was substantially higher than the one obtained using only the imaging data.
Disciplines :
Engineering, computing & technology: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Segovia-Román, Fermín ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre de recherches du cyclotron
Bastin, Christine  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Neuroimagerie des troubles de la mémoire et révalid. cogn.
Salmon, Eric  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Neuroimagerie des troubles de la mémoire et révalid. cogn.
Górriz Sáez, Juan Manuel;  Universidad de Granada (España) = University of Granada (Spain) - UGR > Signal Theory, Networking and Communications
Ramírez Pérez de Inestrosa, Javier;  Universidad de Granada (España) = University of Granada (Spain) - UGR > Signal Theory, Networking and Communications
Phillips, Christophe  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre de recherches du cyclotron
Language :
English
Title :
Combining PET images and neuropsychological test data for automatic diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
Alternative titles :
[en] AD Diagnosis Using PET Data and Neuropsych. Tests
Publication date :
13 February 2014
Journal title :
PLoS ONE
eISSN :
1932-6203
Publisher :
Public Library of Science, San Franscisco, United States - California
Volume :
9
Issue :
2
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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