Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most widespread neurodegenerative disease, affecting over 50 million people across the world. While its progression cannot be stopped, early and accurate diagnostic testing can drastically improve quality of life in patients. Currently, only qualitative means of testing are employed in the form of scoring performance on a battery of cognitive tests. The inherent disadvantage of this method is that the burden of an accurate diagnosis falls on the clinician’s competence. Quantitative methods like MRI scan assessment are inaccurate at best, due to the elusive nature of visually observable changes in the brain. In lieu of these disadvantages to extant methods of AD diagnosis, we have developed ADiag, a novel quantitative method to diagnose AD through graph theory and deep learning based analysis of large graphs based on thickness differences between different structural regions of the cortex. ADiag is adept not only at differentiating between controls and AD patients, but also at predicting progression of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) to clinical AD.
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ADiag: Graph Theory and Deep Learning Based Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease
Published:
14 July 2021
by MDPI
in The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Brain Sciences
session Clinical Neuroscience
https://doi.org/10.3390/IECBS2021-10670
(registering DOI)
Abstract:
Keywords: Alzheimer's Disease; Graph Neural Network; Cortical Thickness; Network Graphs; ADNI
Comments on this paper
Lydia Giménez-Llort
15 July 2021
Congratulations!
Congratulations for this innovative tool. Looking forward to see it published!