Soft-split sparse regression based random forest for predicting future clinical scores of Alzheimer’s disease

Lei Huang, Yaozong Gao, Yan Jin, Kim Han Thung, Dinggang Shen

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    Abstract

    In this study, we propose a novel sparse regression based random forest (RF) to predict future clinical scores of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) with the baseline scores and the MRI features. To avoid the stair-like decision boundary caused by axis-aligned split function in the conventional RF, we present a supervised method to construct the oblique split function by using sparse regression to select the informative features and transform the original features into the target-like features that are more discriminative. Then, we construct the oblique splitting function by applying the principal component analysis (PCA) on the transformed target-like features. Furthermore, to reduce the negative impact of potential missplit induced by the conventional “hard-split”, we further introduce the “soft-split” technique, in which both left and right nodes are visited with certain weights given a test sample. The experiment results show that sparse regression based RF alone can improve the prediction performance of the conventional RF. And further improvement can be achieved when both of the techniques are combined.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationMachine Learning in Medical Imaging - 6th International Workshop, MLMI 2015 Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2015, Proceedings
    EditorsLuping Zhou, Yinghuan Shi, Li Wang, Qian Wang
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages246-254
    Number of pages9
    ISBN (Print)9783319248875
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015
    Event6th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2015 and Held in Conjunction with 18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2015 - Munich, Germany
    Duration: 2015 Oct 52015 Oct 5

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume9352
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Other

    Other6th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2015 and Held in Conjunction with 18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2015
    Country/TerritoryGermany
    CityMunich
    Period15/10/515/10/5

    Bibliographical note

    Publisher Copyright:
    © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Theoretical Computer Science
    • General Computer Science

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