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QUANTITATIVE IMAGING IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY
卷 10, 期 7, 页码 1477-1489出版社
AME PUBL CO
DOI: 10.21037/qims-19-872
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Mild cognitive impairment (MCI); cortical features; hippocampal subfields; support vector machine (SVM); classification
资金
- Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology [201604020170]
Background: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is subtle cognitive decline with an estimated 10-15% yearly conversion rate toward Alzheimer's disease (AD). It remains unexplored in brain cortical association areas in different lobes and its changes with progression and conversion of MCI. Methods: Brain structural magnetic resonance (MR) images were collected from 102 stable MCI (sMCI) patients. One hundred eleven were converted MCI (cMCI) patients, and 109 were normal control ( NC). The cortical surface features and volumes of subcortical hippocampal subfields were calculated using the FreeSurfer software, followed by an analysis of variance (ANOVA) model, to reveal the differences between the NC-sMCI, NC-cMCI, and sMCI-cMCI groups. Afterward, the support vector machine- recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE) method was applied to determine the differences between the groups. Results: The experimental results showed that there were progressive degradations in either range or degree of the brain structure from NC to sMCI, and then to cMCI. The SVM classifier obtained accuracies with 64.62%, 78.96%, and 70.33% in the sMCI-NC, cMCI-NC, and cMCI-sMCI groups, respectively, using the volumes of hippocampal subfields independently. The combination of the volumes from the hippocampal subfields and cortical measurements could significantly increase the performance to 71.86%, 84.64%, and 76.86% for the sMCI-NC, cMCI-NC, and cMCI-sMCI classifications, respectively. Also, the brain regions corresponding to the dominant features with strong discriminative power were widely located in the temporal, frontal, parietal, olfactory cortexes, and most of the hippocampal subfields, which were associated with cognitive decline, memory impairment, spatial navigation, and attention control. Conclusions: The combination of cortical features with the volumes of hippocampal subfields could supply critical information for MCI detection and its conversion.
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