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Application of machine learning to electroencephalography for the diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia: A pilot study

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Moral-Rubio, Carlos, Balugo, Paloma, Fraile-Pereda, Adela, Pytel, Vanesa, Fernández-Romero, Lucía, Delgado-Alonso, Cristina, Delgado-Álvarez, Alfonso, Matias-Guiu, Jorge +2 more·2021·Brain Sciences

Abstract

Background. Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative syndrome in which diagnosis is usually challenging. Biomarkers are needed for diagnosis and monitoring. In this study, we aimed to evaluate Electroencephalography (EEG) as a biomarker for the diagnosis of PPA. Methods. We conducted a cross-sectional study with 40 PPA patients categorized as non-fluent, semantic, and logopenic variants, and 20 controls. Resting-state EEG with 32 channels was acquired and preprocessed using several procedures (quantitative EEG, wavelet transformation, autoencoders, and graph theory analysis). Seven machine learning algorithms were evaluated (Decision Tree, Elastic Net, Support Vector Machines, Random Forest, K-Nearest Neighbors, Gaussian Naive Bayes, and Multinomial Naive Bayes). Results. Diagnostic capacity to distinguish between PPA and controls was high (accuracy 75%, F1-score 83% for kNN algorithm). The most important features in the classification were derived from network analysis based on graph theory. Conversely, discrimination between PPA variants was lower (Accuracy 58% and F1-score 60% for kNN). Conclusions. The application of ML to resting-state EEG may have a role in the diagnosis of PPA, especially in the differentiation from controls. Future studies with high-density EEG should explore the capacity to distinguish between PPA variants.

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Moral-Rubio, C., Balugo, P., Fraile-Pereda, A., Pytel, V., Fernández-Romero, L., Delgado-Alonso, C., Delgado-Álvarez, A., Matias-Guiu, J., Matias-Guiu, J. A., & Ayala, J. L.
Affiliations
  • Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES)
  • Department of Neurology, Institute of Neuroscience, Hospital Clínico San Carlos (IdISCC), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Venue
Brain Sciences
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2021-09-24
Volume
11
Issue
10
Pages
1262
ISSN
2076-3425 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3201769198
Cited by
25
References
54
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 5
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3.05
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Brain Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Library Open Repository (Universidad Complutense Madrid) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
Instituto de Salud Carlos III (INT20/00079)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Keywords
primary progressive aphasia, EEG, resting-state EEG, EEG biomarkers, machine learning classification, graph theory, network analysis, semantic variant, logopenic variant, neurodegenerative disease diagnosis

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