Disentangling Alzheimer’s disease neurodegeneration from typical brain ageing using machine learning

Abstract

Neuroimaging biomarkers that distinguish between changes due to typical brain ageing and Alzheimer’s disease are valuable for determining how much each contributes to cognitive decline. Supervised machine learning models can derive multivariate patterns of brain change related to the two processes, including the Spatial Patterns of Atrophy for Recognition of Alzheimer’s Disease (SPARE-AD) and of Brain Aging (SPARE-BA) scores investigated herein. However, the substantial overlap between brain regions affected in the two processes confounds measuring them independently. We present a methodology, and associated results, towards disentangling the two.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
May 02, 2022
Source ID
10.1093/braincomms/fcac117

Entities

People

  • Ahmed Abdulkadir
  • Aristeidis Sotiras
  • Christos Davatzikos
  • David A. Wolk
  • Dhivya Srinivasan
  • Elizabeth Mamourian
  • For The Adni
  • From The Istaging Consortium
  • Guray Erus
  • Gyujoon Hwang
  • Haochang Shou
  • Ilya M. Nasrallah
  • Jimit Doshi
  • Marilyn S. Albert
  • Mohamad Habes
  • Murat Bilgel
  • Nick R. Bryan
  • Peter R Schofield
  • Raymond Pomponio
  • Susan M. Resnick
  • Tanweer Rashid
  • Yong Fan

Organizations

  • Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • National Institute on Aging
  • National Institutes of Health
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Washington University in St. Louis

Tags

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Neuroscience

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference
  • AI & ML - Neural Networks