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Multimodal deep learning models for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease stage

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Venugopalan, Janani, Tong, Li, Hassanzadeh, Hamid Reza, Wang, May D.·2021·Scientific Reports

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Most current Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive disorders (MCI) studies use single data modality to make predictions such as AD stages. The fusion of multiple data modalities can provide a holistic view of AD staging analysis. Thus, we use deep learning (DL) to integrally analyze imaging (magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)), genetic (single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)), and clinical test data to classify patients into AD, MCI, and controls (CN). We use stacked denoising auto-encoders to extract features from clinical and genetic data, and use 3D-convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for imaging data. We also develop a novel data interpretation method to identify top-performing features learned by the deep-models with clustering and perturbation analysis. Using Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative (ADNI) dataset, we demonstrate that deep models outperform shallow models, including support vector machines, decision trees, random forests, and k-nearest neighbors. In addition, we demonstrate that integrating multi-modality data outperforms single modality models in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, and meanF1 scores. Our models have identified hippocampus, amygdala brain areas, and the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) as top distinguished features, which are consistent with the known AD literature.

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Authors
Venugopalan, J., Tong, L., Hassanzadeh, H. R., & Wang, M. D.
Affiliations
Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
Corresponding author
Wang, May D.
Venue
Scientific Reports
Published
2021-02-05
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
3254-3254
ISSN
2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3127597934
Cited by
732
References
57
Citations by year
2026: 113 · 2025: 181 · 2024: 162 · 2023: 141 · 2022: 108 · 2021: 27
FWCI
78.57
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Scientific Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1TR000454)
  • Microsoft Research
  • Hewlett Packard | HP Labs
  • U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | Center for Information Technology (UL1TR000454)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, disease staging, multimodal fusion, magnetic resonance imaging, single nucleotide polymorphisms, genetic data, stacked denoising autoencoder, 3D convolutional neural networks, feature interpretation, hippocampus, amygdala, Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, ADNI
MeSH terms
Deep Learning, Alzheimer Disease, Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted, Humans, Early Diagnosis, Data Mining

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