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Predicting individual clinical trajectories of depression with generative embedding.

Abstract：

:Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) show heterogeneous treatment response and highly variable clinical trajectories: while some patients experience swift recovery, others show relapsing-remitting or chronic courses. Predicting individual clinical trajectories at an early stage is a key challenge for psychiatry and might facilitate individually tailored interventions. So far, however, reliable predictors at the single-patient level are absent. Here, we evaluated the utility of a machine learning strategy - generative embedding (GE) - which combines interpretable generative models with discriminative classifiers. Specifically, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data of emotional face perception in 85 MDD patients from the NEtherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA) who had been followed up over two years and classified into three subgroups with distinct clinical trajectories. Combining a generative model of effective (directed) connectivity with support vector machines (SVMs), we could predict whether a given patient would experience chronic depression vs. fast remission with a balanced accuracy of 79%. Gradual improvement vs. fast remission could still be predicted above-chance, but less convincingly, with a balanced accuracy of 61%. Generative embedding outperformed classification based on conventional (descriptive) features, such as functional connectivity or local activation estimates, which were obtained from the same data and did not allow for above-chance classification accuracy. Furthermore, predictive performance of GE could be assigned to a specific network property: the trial-by-trial modulation of connections by emotional content. Given the limited sample size of our study, the present results are preliminary but may serve as proof-of-concept, illustrating the potential of GE for obtaining clinical predictions that are interpretable in terms of network mechanisms. Our findings suggest that abnormal dynamic changes of connections involved in emotional face processing might be associated with higher risk of developing a less favorable clinical course.

journal_name

Neuroimage Clin

journal_title

NeuroImage. Clinical

authors

Frässle S,Marquand AF,Schmaal L,Dinga R,Veltman DJ,van der Wee NJA,van Tol MJ,Schöbi D,Penninx BWJH,Stephan KE

doi

10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102213

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-01-01 00:00:00

pages

102213

issn

2213-1582

pii

S2213-1582(20)30050-4

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Predicting individual clinical trajectories of depression with generative embedding.