Lifespan tree of brain anatomy: diagnostic values for motor and cognitive neurodegenerative diseases

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Auteurs principaux: Coupé, Pierrick, Mansencal, Boris, Manjón, José V., Péran, Patrice, Meissner, Wassilios G., Tourdias, Thomas, Planche, Vincent
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author Coupé, Pierrick
Mansencal, Boris
Manjón, José V.
Péran, Patrice
Meissner, Wassilios G.
Tourdias, Thomas
Planche, Vincent
author_facet Coupé, Pierrick
Mansencal, Boris
Manjón, José V.
Péran, Patrice
Meissner, Wassilios G.
Tourdias, Thomas
Planche, Vincent
contents The differential diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by overlapping symptoms, may be challenging. Brain imaging coupled with artificial intelligence has been previously proposed for diagnostic support, but most of these methods have been trained to discriminate only isolated diseases from controls. Here, we develop a novel machine learning framework, named lifespan tree of brain anatomy, dedicated to the differential diagnosis between multiple diseases simultaneously. It integrates the modeling of volume changes for 124 brain structures during the lifespan with non-linear dimensionality reduction and synthetic sampling techniques to create easily interpretable representations of brain anatomy over the course of disease progression. As clinically relevant proof-of-concept applications, we constructed a cognitive lifespan tree of brain anatomy for the differential diagnosis of six causes of neurodegenerative dementia and a motor lifespan tree of brain anatomy for the differential diagnosis of four causes of parkinsonism using 37594 MRI as a training dataset. This original approach enhanced significantly the efficiency of differential diagnosis in the external validation cohort of 1754 cases, outperforming existing state-of-the art machine learning techniques. Lifespan tree holds promise as a valuable tool for differential diagnostic in relevant clinical conditions, especially for diseases still lacking effective biological markers.
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spellingShingle Lifespan tree of brain anatomy: diagnostic values for motor and cognitive neurodegenerative diseases
Coupé, Pierrick
Mansencal, Boris
Manjón, José V.
Péran, Patrice
Meissner, Wassilios G.
Tourdias, Thomas
Planche, Vincent
Image and Video Processing
Machine Learning
The differential diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by overlapping symptoms, may be challenging. Brain imaging coupled with artificial intelligence has been previously proposed for diagnostic support, but most of these methods have been trained to discriminate only isolated diseases from controls. Here, we develop a novel machine learning framework, named lifespan tree of brain anatomy, dedicated to the differential diagnosis between multiple diseases simultaneously. It integrates the modeling of volume changes for 124 brain structures during the lifespan with non-linear dimensionality reduction and synthetic sampling techniques to create easily interpretable representations of brain anatomy over the course of disease progression. As clinically relevant proof-of-concept applications, we constructed a cognitive lifespan tree of brain anatomy for the differential diagnosis of six causes of neurodegenerative dementia and a motor lifespan tree of brain anatomy for the differential diagnosis of four causes of parkinsonism using 37594 MRI as a training dataset. This original approach enhanced significantly the efficiency of differential diagnosis in the external validation cohort of 1754 cases, outperforming existing state-of-the art machine learning techniques. Lifespan tree holds promise as a valuable tool for differential diagnostic in relevant clinical conditions, especially for diseases still lacking effective biological markers.
title Lifespan tree of brain anatomy: diagnostic values for motor and cognitive neurodegenerative diseases
topic Image and Video Processing
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09682