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Controls-based denoising, a new approach for medical image analysis, improves prediction of conversion to Alzheimer's disease with FDG-PET.

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OBJECTIVE:The pattern expression score (PES), i.e., the degree to which a pathology-related pattern is present, is frequently used in FDG-brain-PET analysis and has been shown to be a powerful predictor of conversion to Alzheimer's disease (AD) in mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Since, inevitably, the PES is affected by non-pathological variability, our aim was to improve classification with the simple, yet novel approach to identify patterns of non-pathological variance in a separate control sample using principal component analysis and removing them from patient data (controls-based denoising, CODE) before calculating the PES. METHODS:Multi-center FDG-PET from 220 MCI patients (64 non-converter, follow-up ≥ 4 years; 156 AD converter, time-to-conversion ≤ 4 years) were obtained from the ADNI database. Patterns of non-pathological variance were determined from 262 healthy controls. An AD pattern was calculated from AD patients and controls. We predicted AD conversion based on PES only and on PES combined with neuropsychological features and ApoE4 genotype. We compared classification performance achieved with and without CODE and with a standard machine learning approach (support vector machine). RESULTS:Our model predicts that CODE improves the signal-to-noise ratio of AD-PES by a factor of 1.5. PES-based prediction of AD conversion improved from AUC 0.80 to 0.88 (p= 0.001, DeLong's method), sensitivity 69 to 83%, specificity 81% to 88% and Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) 0.45 to 0.66. Best classification (0.93 AUC) was obtained when combining the denoised PES with clinical features. CONCLUSIONS:CODE, applied in its basic form, significantly improved prediction of conversion based on PES. The achieved classification performance was higher than with a standard machine learning algorithm, which was trained on patients, explainable by the fact that CODE used additional information (large sample of healthy controls). We conclude that the proposed, novel method is a powerful tool for improving medical image analysis that offers a wide spectrum of biomedical applications, even beyond image analysis.

journal_name

Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging

journal_title

European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging

authors

Blum D,Liepelt-Scarfone I,Berg D,Gasser T,la Fougère C,Reimold M,Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

doi

10.1007/s00259-019-04400-w

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-10-01 00:00:00

pages

2370-2379

issue

eissn

1619-7070

issn

1619-7089

pii

10.1007/s00259-019-04400-w

journal_volume

pub_type

杂志文章,多中心研究

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Controls-based denoising, a new approach for medical image analysis, improves prediction of conversion to Alzheimer's disease with FDG-PET.