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Predicting primary progressive aphasias with support vector machine approaches in structural MRI data.

Abstract：

:Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) encompasses the three subtypes nonfluent/agrammatic variant PPA, semantic variant PPA, and the logopenic variant PPA, which are characterized by distinct patterns of language difficulties and regional brain atrophy. To validate the potential of structural magnetic resonance imaging data for early individual diagnosis, we used support vector machine classification on grey matter density maps obtained by voxel-based morphometry analysis to discriminate PPA subtypes (44 patients: 16 nonfluent/agrammatic variant PPA, 17 semantic variant PPA, 11 logopenic variant PPA) from 20 healthy controls (matched for sample size, age, and gender) in the cohort of the multi-center study of the German consortium for frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Here, we compared a whole-brain with a meta-analysis-based disease-specific regions-of-interest approach for support vector machine classification. We also used support vector machine classification to discriminate the three PPA subtypes from each other. Whole brain support vector machine classification enabled a very high accuracy between 91 and 97% for identifying specific PPA subtypes vs. healthy controls, and 78/95% for the discrimination between semantic variant vs. nonfluent/agrammatic or logopenic PPA variants. Only for the discrimination between nonfluent/agrammatic and logopenic PPA variants accuracy was low with 55%. Interestingly, the regions that contributed the most to the support vector machine classification of patients corresponded largely to the regions that were atrophic in these patients as revealed by group comparisons. Although the whole brain approach took also into account regions that were not covered in the regions-of-interest approach, both approaches showed similar accuracies due to the disease-specificity of the selected networks. Conclusion, support vector machine classification of multi-center structural magnetic resonance imaging data enables prediction of PPA subtypes with a very high accuracy paving the road for its application in clinical settings.

journal_name

Neuroimage Clin

journal_title

NeuroImage. Clinical

authors

Bisenius S,Mueller K,Diehl-Schmid J,Fassbender K,Grimmer T,Jessen F,Kassubek J,Kornhuber J,Landwehrmeyer B,Ludolph A,Schneider A,Anderl-Straub S,Stuke K,Danek A,Otto M,Schroeter ML,FTLDc study group.

doi

10.1016/j.nicl.2017.02.003

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-02-06 00:00:00

pages

334-343

issn

2213-1582

pii

S2213-1582(17)30037-2

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Predicting primary progressive aphasias with support vector machine approaches in structural MRI data.