期刊
BMC MEDICAL INFORMATICS AND DECISION MAKING
卷 17, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-017-0497-2
关键词
Neurodegenerative diseases; Mild cognitive impairment; Prognostic prediction; Time windows; Supervised learning; Neuropsychological data
资金
- FCT under the Neuroclinomics2 project [PTDC/EEI-SII/1937/2014, SFRH/BD/95846/2013]
- INESC-ID plurianual [UID/CEC/50021/2013]
- LASIGE Research Unit [UID/CEC/00408/2013]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [UID/CEC/50021/2013, UID/CEC/00408/2013, SFRH/BD/95846/2013] Funding Source: FCT
Background: Predicting progression from a stage of Mild Cognitive Impairment to dementia is a major pursuit in current research. It is broadly accepted that cognition declines with a continuum between MCI and dementia. As such, cohorts of MCI patients are usually heterogeneous, containing patients at different stages of the neurodegenerative process. This hampers the prognostic task. Nevertheless, when learning prognostic models, most studies use the entire cohort of MCI patients regardless of their disease stages. In this paper, we propose a Time Windows approach to predict conversion to dementia, learning with patients stratified using time windows, thus fine-tuning the prognosis regarding the time to conversion. Methods: In the proposed Time Windows approach, we grouped patients based on the clinical information of whether they converted (converter MCI) or remained MCI (stable MCI) within a specific time window. We tested time windows of 2, 3, 4 and 5 years. We developed a prognostic model for each time window using clinical and neuropsychological data and compared this approach with the commonly used in the literature, where all patients are used to learn the models, named as First Last approach. This enables to move from the traditional question Will a MCI patient convert to dementia somewhere in the future to the question Will a MCI patient convert to dementia in a specific time window. Results: The proposed Time Windows approach outperformed the First Last approach. The results showed that we can predict conversion to dementia as early as 5 years before the event with an AUC of 0.88 in the cross-validation set and 0.76 in an independent validation set. Conclusions: Prognostic models using time windows have higher performance when predicting progression from MCI to dementia, when compared to the prognostic approach commonly used in the literature. Furthermore, the proposed Time Windows approach is more relevant from a clinical point of view, predicting conversion within a temporal interval rather than sometime in the future and allowing clinicians to timely adjust treatments and clinical appointments.
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