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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-7-31
pubmed:abstractText
We describe a new method to automatically discriminate between patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and elderly controls, based on multidimensional classification of hippocampal shape features. This approach uses spherical harmonics (SPHARM) coefficients to model the shape of the hippocampi, which are segmented from magnetic resonance images (MRI) using a fully automatic method that we previously developed. SPHARM coefficients are used as features in a classification procedure based on support vector machines (SVM). The most relevant features for classification are selected using a bagging strategy. We evaluate the accuracy of our method in a group of 23 patients with AD (10 males, 13 females, age+/-standard-deviation (SD)=73+/-6 years, mini-mental score (MMS)=24.4+/-2.8), 23 patients with amnestic MCI (10 males, 13 females, age+/-SD=74+/-8 years, MMS=27.3+/-1.4) and 25 elderly healthy controls (13 males, 12 females, age+/-SD=64+/-8 years), using leave-one-out cross-validation. For AD vs controls, we obtain a correct classification rate of 94%, a sensitivity of 96%, and a specificity of 92%. For MCI vs controls, we obtain a classification rate of 83%, a sensitivity of 83%, and a specificity of 84%. This accuracy is superior to that of hippocampal volumetry and is comparable to recently published SVM-based whole-brain classification methods, which relied on a different strategy. This new method may become a useful tool to assist in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1095-9572
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
47
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1476-86
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-12-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Aging, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Algorithms, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Alzheimer Disease, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Cluster Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Cognition Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Diagnosis, Differential, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Image Enhancement, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Magnetic Resonance Imaging, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Pattern Recognition, Automated, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Reproducibility of Results, pubmed-meshheading:19463957-Sensitivity and Specificity
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Multidimensional classification of hippocampal shape features discriminates Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment from normal aging.
pubmed:affiliation
UPMC Université Paris 06, UMR 7225, UMR_S 975, Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Cerveau-Moelle (CRICM), Paris, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Evaluation Studies, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural