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NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages 258-265Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2014.12.005
Keywords
Early Alzheimer's disease; Mild cognitive impairment; EEG-based diagnosis; Causality analysis
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Funding
- Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Oak Ridge National Laboratory [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
- NSF [CMMI-0845753, CMMI-1234155]
- NIH [NIH P30 AG028383, NIH AG00986, NIH NCRR UL1TR000117]
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn
- Directorate For Engineering [0845753] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Recently, Sugihara proposed an innovative causality concept, which, in contrast to statistical predictability in Granger sense, characterizes underlying deterministic causation of the system. This work exploits Sugihara causality analysis to develop novel EEC biomarkers for discriminating normal aging from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early Alzheimer's disease (AD). The hypothesis of this work is that scalp EEG based causality measurements have different distributions for different cognitive groups and hence the causality measurements can be used to distinguish between NC, MCI, and AD participants. The current results are based on 30-channel resting EEG records from 48 age-matched participants (mean age 75.7 years) 15 normal controls (NCs), 16 MCI, and 17 early-stage AD. First, a reconstruction model is developed for each EEG channel, which predicts the signal in the current channel using data of the other 29 channels. The reconstruction model of the target channel is trained using NC, MCI, or AD records to generate an NC-, MCI-, or AD-specific model, respectively. To avoid over fitting, the training is based on the leave-one-out principle. Sugihara causality between the channels is described by a quality score based on comparison between the reconstructed signal and the original signal. The quality scores are studied for their potential as biomarkers to distinguish between the different cognitive groups. First, the dimension of the quality scores is reduced to two principal components. Then, a three-way classification based on the principal components is conducted. Accuracies of 95.8%, 95.8%, and 97.9% are achieved for resting eyes open, counting eyes closed, and resting eyes closed protocols, respectively. This work presents a novel application of Sugihara causality analysis to capture characteristic changes in EEC activity due to cognitive deficits. The developed method has excellent potential as individualized biomarkers in the detection of pathophysiological changes in early-stage AD. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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