title: Evaluating the Predictive Power of Multivariate Tensor-based Morphometry in Alzheimers Disease Progression via Convex Fused Sparse Group Lasso.
abstract: Prediction of Alzheimers disease (AD) progression based on baseline measures allows us to understand disease progression and has implications in decisions concerning treatment strategy. To this end we combine a predictive multi-task machine learning method1with novel MR-based multivariate morphometric surface map of the hippocampus2to predict future cognitive scores of patients. Previous work by Zhou et al.1has shown that a multi-task learning framework that performs prediction of all future time points (or tasks) simultaneously can be used to encode both sparsity as well as temporal smoothness. They showed that this can be used in predicting cognitive outcomes of Alzheimers Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) subjects based on FreeSurfer-based baseline MRI features, MMSE score demographic information and ApoE status. Whilst volumetric information may hold generalized information on brain status, we hypothesized that hippocampus specific information may be more useful in predictive modeling of AD. To this end, we applied Shi et al.2s recently developed multivariate tensor-based (mTBM) parametric surface analysis method to extract features from the hippocampal surface. We show that by combining the power of the multi-task framework with the sensitivity of mTBM features of the hippocampus surface, we are able to improve significantly improve predictive performance of ADAS cognitive scores 6, 12, 24, 36 and 48 months from baseline.
authors: University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
authors: Sinchai
authors: S
authors: Tsao
authors: Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors: Niharika
authors: N
authors: Gajawelli
authors: Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
authors: Jiayu
authors: J
authors: Zhou
authors: Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
authors: Jie
authors: J
authors: Shi
authors: Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
authors: Jieping
authors: J
authors: Ye
authors: Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
authors: Yalin
authors: Y
authors: Wang
authors: Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors: Natasha
authors: N
authors: Lepore
keywords: ADAS-Cog; Alzheimers Disease; Disease Progression; Feature Selection; Hippocampus; Multi-task learning; Tensor-based Morphometry; fused Lasso