Identification of differential brain regions in MCI progression via clustering-evolutionary weighted SVM ensemble algorithm
作者:Xia-an Bi, Yiming Xie, Hao Wu, Luyun Xu
摘要
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) as the potential sign of serious cognitive decline could be divided into two stages, i.e., late MCI (LMCI) and early MCI (EMCI). Although the different cognitive states in the MCI progression have been clinically defined, effective and accurate identification of differences in neuroimaging data between these stages still needs to be further studied. In this paper, a new method of clustering-evolutionary weighted support vector machine ensemble (CEWSVME) is presented to investigate the alterations from cognitively normal (CN) to EMCI to LMCI. The CEWSVME mainly includes two steps. The first step is to build multiple SVM classifiers by randomly selecting samples and features. The second step is to introduce the idea of clustering evolution to eliminate inefficient and highly similar SVMs, thereby improving the final classification performances. Additionally, we extracted the optimal features to detect the differential brain regions in MCI progression, and confirmed that these differential brain regions changed dynamically with the development of MCI. More exactly, this study found that some brain regions only have durative effects on MCI progression, such as parahippocampal gyrus, posterior cingulate gyrus and amygdala, while the superior temporal gyrus and the middle temporal gyrus have periodic effects on the progression. Our work contributes to understanding the pathogenesis of MCI and provide the guidance for its timely diagnosis.
论文关键词:machine learning, MCI progression, optimal feature extraction, differential brain regions, functional magnetic resonance imaging
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论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-020-9520-3