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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS
Volume 215, Issue 2, Pages 210-217Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2013.03.018
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MRI; Regularity dimension; Sample entropy; Alzheimer's disease; Aging
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- JSPS
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24800052] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We apply for the first time the sample entropy (SampEn) and regularity dimension model for measuring signal complexity to quantify the structural complexity of the brain on MRI. The concept of the regularity dimension is based on the theory of chaos for studying nonlinear dynamical systems, where power laws and entropy measure are adopted to develop the regularity dimension for modeling a mathematical relationship between the frequencies with which information about signal regularity changes in various scales. The sample entropy and regularity dimension of MRI-based brain structural complexity are computed for early Alzheimer's disease (AD) elder adults and age and gender-matched non-demented controls, as well as for a wide range of ages from young people to elder adults. A significantly higher global cortical structure complexity is detected in AD individuals (p < 0.001). The increase of SampEn and the regularity dimension are also found to be accompanied with aging which might indicate an age-related exacerbation of cortical structural irregularity. The provided model can be potentially used as an imaging bio-marker for early prediction of AD and age-related cognitive decline. (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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