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- Title
Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease Categorization Using PET Neuroimaging Modality and Convolutional Neural Networks in the 2D and 3D Domains.
- Authors
Tufail, Ahsan Bin; Anwar, Nazish; Othman, Mohamed Tahar Ben; Ullah, Inam; Khan, Rehan Ali; Ma, Yong-Kui; Adhikari, Deepak; Rehman, Ateeq Ur; Shafiq, Muhammad; Hamam, Habib
- Abstract
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a health apprehension of significant proportions that is negatively impacting the ageing population globally. It is characterized by neuronal loss and the formation of structures such as neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques in the early as well as later stages of the disease. Neuroimaging modalities are routinely used in clinical practice to capture brain alterations associated with AD. On the other hand, deep learning methods are routinely used to recognize patterns in underlying data distributions effectively. This work uses Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures in both 2D and 3D domains to classify the initial stages of AD into AD, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Normal Control (NC) classes using the positron emission tomography neuroimaging modality deploying data augmentation in a random zoomed in/out scheme. We used novel concepts such as the blurring before subsampling principle and distant domain transfer learning to build 2D CNN architectures. We performed three binaries, that is, AD/NC, AD/MCI, MCI/NC and one multiclass classification task AD/NC/MCI. The statistical comparison revealed that 3D-CNN architecture performed the best achieving an accuracy of 89.21% on AD/NC, 71.70% on AD/MCI, 62.25% on NC/MCI and 59.73% on AD/NC/MCI classification tasks using a five-fold cross-validation hyperparameter selection approach. Data augmentation helps in achieving superior performance on the multiclass classification task. The obtained results support the application of deep learning models towards early recognition of AD.
- Subjects
CONVOLUTIONAL neural networks; ALZHEIMER'S disease; POSITRON emission tomography; DATA augmentation; NEUROFIBRILLARY tangles
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2022, Vol 22, Issue 12, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s22124609