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Comparisons of neurodegeneration over time between healthy ageing and Alzheimer's disease cohorts via Bayesian inference.

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OBJECTIVES:In recent years, large-scale longitudinal neuroimaging studies have improved our understanding of healthy ageing and pathologies including Alzheimer's disease (AD). A particular focus of these studies is group differences and identification of participants at risk of deteriorating to a worse diagnosis. For this, statistical analysis using linear mixed-effects (LME) models are used to account for correlated observations from individuals measured over time. A Bayesian framework for LME models in AD is introduced in this paper to provide additional insight often not found in current LME volumetric analyses. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS:Longitudinal neuroimaging case study of ageing was analysed in this research on 260 participants diagnosed as either healthy controls (HC), mild cognitive impaired (MCI) or AD. Bayesian LME models for the ventricle and hippocampus regions were used to: (1) estimate how the volumes of these regions change over time by diagnosis, (2) identify high-risk non-AD individuals with AD like degeneration and (3) determine probabilistic trajectories of diagnosis groups over age. RESULTS:We observed (1) large differences in the average rate of change of volume for the ventricle and hippocampus regions between diagnosis groups, (2) high-risk individuals who had progressed from HC to MCI and displayed similar rates of deterioration as AD counterparts, and (3) critical time points which indicate where deterioration of regions begins to diverge between the diagnosis groups. CONCLUSIONS:To the best of our knowledge, this is the first application of Bayesian LME models to neuroimaging data which provides inference on a population and individual level in the AD field. The application of a Bayesian LME framework allows for additional information to be extracted from longitudinal studies. This provides health professionals with valuable information of neurodegeneration stages, and a potential to provide a better understanding of disease pathology.

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BMJ Open

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BMJ open

authors

Cespedes MI,Fripp J,McGree JM,Drovandi CC,Mengersen K,Doecke JD

doi

10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012174

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-02-07 00:00:00

pages

e012174

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issn

2044-6055

pii

bmjopen-2016-012174

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Comparisons of neurodegeneration over time between healthy ageing and Alzheimer's disease cohorts via Bayesian inference.