Cited by 544Dementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchMedical Image Segmentation TechniquesFunctional Brain Connectivity Studies

Hierarchical fully convolutional network for joint atrophy localization and Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis using structural MRI

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Lian, Chunfeng, Liu, Mingxia, Zhang, Jun, Shen, Dinggang·2020·IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

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Structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) has been widely used for computer-aided diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders, e.g., Alzheimer's disease (AD), due to its sensitivity to morphological changes caused by brain atrophy. Recently, a few deep learning methods (e.g., convolutional neural networks, CNNs) have been proposed to learn task-oriented features from sMRI for AD diagnosis, and achieved superior performance than the conventional learning-based methods using hand-crafted features. However, these existing CNN-based methods still require the pre-determination of informative locations in sMRI. That is, the stage of discriminative atrophy localization is isolated to the latter stages of feature extraction and classifier construction. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical fully convolutional network (H-FCN) to automatically identify discriminative local patches and regions in the whole brain sMRI, upon which multi-scale feature representations are then jointly learned and fused to construct hierarchical classification models for AD diagnosis. Our proposed H-FCN method was evaluated on a large cohort of subjects from two independent datasets (i.e., ADNI-1 and ADNI-2), demonstrating good performance on joint discriminative atrophy localization and brain disease diagnosis.

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Authors
Lian, C., Liu, M., Zhang, J., & Shen, D.
Affiliations
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Corresponding author
Shen, Dinggang
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Published
2020-04-01
Volume
42
Issue
4
Pages
880-893
ISSN
  • 0162-8828 (ISSN-L)
  • 2160-9292
  • 1939-3539
OpenAlex
W2906155095
Cited by
544
References
75
Citations by year
2026: 38 · 2025: 73 · 2024: 94 · 2023: 100 · 2022: 75 · 2021: 87 · 2020: 49 · 2019: 28
FWCI
32.27
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • UNC Libraries
Funders
NIH (EB008374, AG041721, AG042599, EB022880)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, structural MRI, multi-scale feature fusion, computer-aided diagnosis, neurodegenerative diseases, ADNI
MeSH terms
Supervised Machine Learning, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Alzheimer Disease, Atrophy, Brain, Female, Humans, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Neural Networks, Computer

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