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A novel grading biomarker for the prediction of conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

Tong T, Gao Q, Guerrero R, Ledig C, Chen L, Rueckert D (2017)

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Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2017

Journal

Book Volume: 64

Pages Range: 155-165

Article Number: 7445862

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2016.2549363

Abstract

Objective: Identifying mild cognitive impairment (MCI) subjects who will progress to Alzheimer's disease (AD) is not only crucial in clinical practice, but also has a significant potential to enrich clinical trials. The purpose of this study is to develop an effective biomarker for an accurate prediction of MCI-to-AD conversion from magnetic resonance images. Methods: We propose a novel grading biomarker for the prediction of MCI-to-AD conversion. First, we comprehensively study the effects of several important factors on the performance in the prediction task including registration accuracy, age correction, feature selection, and the selection of training data. Based on the studies of these factors, a grading biomarker is then calculated for each MCI subject using sparse representation techniques. Finally, the grading biomarker is combined with age and cognitive measures to provide a more accurate prediction of MCI-to-AD conversion. Results: Using the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset, the proposed global grading biomarker achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) in the range of 79-81% for the prediction of MCI-to-AD conversion within three years in tenfold cross validations. The classification AUC further increases to 84-92% when age and cognitive measures are combined with the proposed grading biomarker. Conclusion: The obtained accuracy of the proposed biomarker benefits from the contributions of different factors: a tradeoff registration level to align images to the template space, the removal of the normal aging effect, selection of discriminative voxels, the calculation of the grading biomarker using AD and normal control groups, and the integration of sparse representation technique and the combination of cognitive measures. Significance: The evaluation on the ADNI dataset shows the efficacy of the proposed biomarker and demonstrates a significant contribution in accurate prediction of MCI-to-AD conversion.

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APA:

Tong, T., Gao, Q., Guerrero, R., Ledig, C., Chen, L., & Rueckert, D. (2017). A novel grading biomarker for the prediction of conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering, 64(1), 155-165. https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2016.2549363

MLA:

Tong, Tong, et al. "A novel grading biomarker for the prediction of conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease." IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering 64.1 (2017): 155-165.

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