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A Novel Early Diagnosis System for Mild Cognitive Impairment Based on Local Region Analysis: A Pilot Study

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Title
A Novel Early Diagnosis System for Mild Cognitive Impairment Based on Local Region Analysis: A Pilot Study
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2018
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00643
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Fatma E. A. El-Gamal, Mohammed M. Elmogy, Mohammed Ghazal, Ahmed Atwan, Manuel F. Casanova, Gregory N. Barnes, Robert Keynton, Ayman S. El-Baz, Ashraf Khalil

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible neurodegenerative disorder that accounts for 60-70% of cases of dementia in the elderly. An early diagnosis of AD is usually hampered for many reasons including the variable clinical and pathological features exhibited among affected individuals. This paper presents a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system with the primary goal of improving the accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity of diagnosis. In this system, PiB-PET scans, which were obtained from the ADNI database, underwent five essential stages. First, the scans were standardized and de-noised. Second, an Automated Anatomical Labeling (AAL) atlas was utilized to partition the brain into 116 regions or labels that served for local (region-based) diagnosis. Third, scale-invariant Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG) was used, per brain label, to detect the discriminant features. Fourth, the regions' features were analyzed using a general linear model in the form of a two-sample t-test. Fifth, the support vector machines (SVM) and their probabilistic variant (pSVM) were constructed to provide local, followed by global diagnosis. The system was evaluated on scans of normal control (NC) vs. mild cognitive impairment (MCI) (19 NC and 65 MCI scans). The proposed system showed superior accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity as compared to other related work.

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Unknown 35 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 20%
Student > Master 5 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 11%
Student > Bachelor 4 11%
Professor 2 6%
Other 9 26%
Unknown 4 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 6 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 14%
Psychology 4 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 6%
Other 10 29%
Unknown 6 17%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 January 2018.
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#14,370,803
of 23,012,811 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#4,597
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#241,300
of 443,099 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#117
of 160 outputs
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