title: Diffusion based abnormality markers of pathology: toward learned diagnostic prediction of ASD.
abstract: This paper presents a paradigm for generating a quantifiable marker of pathology that supports diagnosis and provides a potential biomarker of neuropsychiatric disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This is achieved by creating high-dimensional nonlinear pattern classifiers using support vector machines (SVM), that learn the underlying pattern of pathology using numerous atlas-based regional features extracted from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data. These classifiers, in addition to providing insight into the group separation between patients and controls, are applicable on a single subject basis and have the potential to aid in diagnosis by assigning a probabilistic abnormality score to each subject that quantifies the degree of pathology and can be used in combination with other clinical scores to aid in diagnostic decision. They also produce a ranking of regions that contribute most to the group classification and separation, thereby providing a neurobiological insight into the pathology. As an illustrative application of the general framework for creating diffusion based abnormality classifiers we create classifiers for a dataset consisting of 45 children with ASD (mean age 10.5 ± 2.5 yr) as compared to 30 typically developing (TD) controls (mean age 10.3 ± 2.5 yr). Based on the abnormality scores, a distinction between the ASD population and TD controls was achieved with 80% leave one out (LOO) cross-validation accuracy with high significance of p<0.001, ~84% specificity and ~74% sensitivity. Regions that contributed to this abnormality score involved fractional anisotropy (FA) differences mainly in right occipital regions as well as in left superior longitudinal fasciculus, external and internal capsule while mean diffusivity (MD) discriminates were observed primarily in right occipital gyrus and right temporal white matter.
authors: Section of Biomedical Image Analysis, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
authors: Madhura
authors: M
authors: Ingalhalikar
authors: Drew
authors: D
authors: Parker
authors: Luke
authors: L
authors: Bloy
authors: Timothy P L
authors: TP
authors: Roberts
authors: Ragini
authors: R
authors: Verma
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