TY - GEN
T1 - Hierarchical anatomical brain networks for MCI prediction by partial least square analysis
AU - Zhou, Luping
AU - Wang, Yaping
AU - Li, Yang
AU - Yap, Pew Thian
AU - Shen, Dinggang
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Owning to its clinical accessibility, T1-weighted MRI has been extensively studied for the prediction of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). The tissue volumes of GM, WM and CSF are the most commonly used measures for MCI and AD prediction. We note that disease-induced structural changes may not happen at isolated spots, but in several inter-related regions. Therefore, in this paper we propose to directly extract the inter-region connectivity based features for MCI prediction. This involves constructing a brain network for each subject, with each node representing an ROI and each edge representing regional interactions. This network is also built hierarchically to improve the robustness of classification. Compared with conventional methods, our approach produces a significant larger pool of features, which if improperly dealt with, will result in intractability when used for classifier training. Therefore based on the characteristics of the network features, we employ Partial Least Square analysis to efficiently reduce the feature dimensionality to a manageable level while at the same time preserving discriminative information as much as possible. Our experiment demonstrates that without requiring any new information in addition to T1-weighted images, the prediction accuracy of MCI is statistically improved.
AB - Owning to its clinical accessibility, T1-weighted MRI has been extensively studied for the prediction of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). The tissue volumes of GM, WM and CSF are the most commonly used measures for MCI and AD prediction. We note that disease-induced structural changes may not happen at isolated spots, but in several inter-related regions. Therefore, in this paper we propose to directly extract the inter-region connectivity based features for MCI prediction. This involves constructing a brain network for each subject, with each node representing an ROI and each edge representing regional interactions. This network is also built hierarchically to improve the robustness of classification. Compared with conventional methods, our approach produces a significant larger pool of features, which if improperly dealt with, will result in intractability when used for classifier training. Therefore based on the characteristics of the network features, we employ Partial Least Square analysis to efficiently reduce the feature dimensionality to a manageable level while at the same time preserving discriminative information as much as possible. Our experiment demonstrates that without requiring any new information in addition to T1-weighted images, the prediction accuracy of MCI is statistically improved.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80052887241&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CVPR.2011.5995689
DO - 10.1109/CVPR.2011.5995689
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052887241
SN - 9781457703942
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
SP - 1073
EP - 1080
BT - 2011 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2011
PB - IEEE Computer Society
ER -