Connectome-Based Model Predicts Deep Brain Stimulation Outcome in Parkinson's Disease

Ruihong Shang, Le He, Xiaodong Ma, Yu Ma*, Xuesong Li*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) is an effective invasive treatment for advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) at present. Due to the invasiveness and cost of operations, a reliable tool is required to predict the outcome of therapy in the clinical decision-making process. This work aims to investigate whether the topological network of functional connectivity states can predict the outcome of DBS without medication. Fifty patients were recruited to extract the features of the brain related to the improvement rate of PD after STN-DBS and to train the machine learning model that can predict the therapy's effect. The functional connectivity analyses suggested that the GBRT model performed best with Pearson's correlations of r = 0.65, p = 2.58E−07 in medication-off condition. The connections between middle frontal gyrus (MFG) and inferior temporal gyrus (ITG) contribute most in the GBRT model.

Original languageEnglish
Article number571527
JournalFrontiers in Computational Neuroscience
Volume14
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Oct 2020

Keywords

  • Parkinson's disease
  • brain network
  • deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery
  • machine learning
  • rs-fMRI

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