Journal
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
Volume 37, Issue 5, Pages 1920-1929Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23147
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease; anatomical MRI; cortical thickness; cortical area; cortical curvature; grey matter density; subcortical volumes; hippocampal shape; classification
Funding
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) [016130677, 05613010, 05613018]
- Dioraphte Foundation [09-02-03-00]
- Association for Frontotemporal Dementia Research
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Several anatomical MRI markers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have been identified. Hippocampal volume, cortical thickness, and grey matter density have been used successfully to discriminate AD patients from controls. These anatomical MRI measures have so far mainly been used separately. The full potential of anatomical MRI scans for AD diagnosis might thus not yet have been used optimally. In this study, we therefore combined multiple anatomical MRI measures to improve diagnostic classification of AD. For 21 clinically diagnosed AD patients and 21 cognitively normal controls, we calculated (i) cortical thickness, (ii) cortical area, (iii) cortical curvature, (iv) grey matter density, (v) subcortical volumes, and (vi) hippocampal shape. These six measures were used separately and combined as predictors in an elastic net logistic regression. We made receiver operating curve plots and calculated the area under the curve (AUC) to determine classification performance. AUC values for the single measures ranged from 0.67 (cortical thickness) to 0.94 (grey matter density). The combination of all six measures resulted in an AUC of 0.98. Our results demonstrate that the different anatomical MRI measures contain complementary information. A combination of these measures may therefore improve accuracy of AD diagnosis in clinical practice. Hum Brain Mapp 37:1920-1929, 2016. (c) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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