Journal
MATHEMATICS
Volume 9, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/math9233101
Keywords
neuroimaging; classification; image filtering; statistical comparison
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major health concern for the elderly population globally, characterized by amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and neuronal loss. Neuroimaging techniques like PET and MRI are commonly used in clinical settings to monitor brain changes in AD. Deep learning techniques and image filtering methods play crucial roles in improving the effectiveness of neuroimaging data.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a leading health concern affecting the elderly population worldwide. It is defined by amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and neuronal loss. Neuroimaging modalities such as positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging are routinely used in clinical settings to monitor the alterations in the brain during the course of progression of AD. Deep learning techniques such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have found numerous applications in healthcare and other technologies. Together with neuroimaging modalities, they can be deployed in clinical settings to learn effective representations of data for different tasks such as classification, segmentation, detection, etc. Image filtering methods are instrumental in making images viable for image processing operations and have found numerous applications in image-processing-related tasks. In this work, we deployed 3D-CNNs to learn effective representations of PET modality data to quantify the impact of different image filtering approaches. We used box filtering, median filtering, Gaussian filtering, and modified Gaussian filtering approaches to preprocess the images and use them for classification using 3D-CNN architecture. Our findings suggest that these approaches are nearly equivalent and have no distinct advantage over one another. For the multiclass classification task between normal control (NC), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and AD classes, the 3D-CNN architecture trained using Gaussian-filtered data performed the best. For binary classification between NC and MCI classes, the 3D-CNN architecture trained using median-filtered data performed the best, while, for binary classification between AD and MCI classes, the 3D-CNN architecture trained using modified Gaussian-filtered data performed the best. Finally, for binary classification between AD and NC classes, the 3D-CNN architecture trained using box-filtered data performed the best.
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