Machine learning support to individual diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment using multimodal MRI and cognitive assessments

De Marco, M., Beltrachini, Leandro ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4602-1416, Biancardi, A., Frangi, A. and Venneri, A. 2017. Machine learning support to individual diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment using multimodal MRI and cognitive assessments. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders 31 (4) , pp. 278-286. 10.1097/WAD.0000000000000208

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Abstract

Background: Understanding whether the cognitive profile of a patient indicates mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or performance levels within normality is often a clinical challenge. The use of resting state functional MRI (RS-fMRI) and machine learning may represent valid aids in clinical settings for the identification of MCI patients. Methods: Machine-learning models were computed to test the classificatory accuracy of cognitive, volumetric (sMRI) and BOLD-connectivity (extracted from RS-fMRI) features, in single-modality and mixed classifiers. Results: The accuracy of the RS-fMRI-based classifier was not significantly different from that of the cognitive classifier (≈85%). RS-fMRI features improved the accuracy of both volumetric and cognitive indices (mixed sMRI+RS-fMRI: ≈85%; mixed sMRI+RSfMRI+ cognitive: ≈90%). The volumetric classifier had a significantly worse accuracy (≈80%). The most important cognitive features were indices of declarative memory and semantic processing. The crucial volumetric feature was the hippocampus. The RS-fMRI features selected by the algorithms were heavily based on the connectivity of mediotemporal, left temporal, and other neocortical regions. Conclusion: Feature selection was profoundly driven by non-collinearity. Some features showed no between-group differences, or showed a trend in either direction. This indicates that clinically-relevant brain alterations typical of MCI might be subtle and not inferable from group analysis.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) Physics and Astronomy Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Machine Learning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Semantics, Hippocampus, Resting-state
Publisher:	Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
ISSN:	0893-0341
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	27 June 2017
Date of Acceptance:	3 July 2017
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 12:42
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/101756

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