Identification and Evaluation of Multimodal Connectomics in Early Alzheimer’s Dementia

Yu Chen, Yingwei Fan, Xiaoying Tang, Jian Zhang, Tianyi Yan, Jinglong Wu*

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Abstract

Alzheimer’s disease is a common neurodegenerative disease with a long disease course and is one of the main causes of dementia. To investigate the longitudinal disorder of multimodal brain networks in the process of cognitive decline and construct a connectome-based identification model for questionable dementia, we construct functional and structural connectivity of brain networks by using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data from the OASIS database. The discovery group of longitudinal database includes 113 healthy aging individuals, 65 healthy subjects at the time of scanning but diagnosed as questionable dementia during follow-up, and 39 subjects with questionable dementia at the time of scanning. The results showed that the default mode network of the potential dementia group had structural and functional abnormalities as early as the cognitive normal stage. Furthermore, a logistic regression model was further constructed using the connectomics features of 455 subjects in identification group to construct an objective mapping between the imaging biomarkers and the clinical dementia scale. The average classification accuracy was about 85%. The above findings may indicate the potential changes of the central nervous system in the early stage of dementia, and serve as an auxiliary and reference for clinicians in the early diagnosis of dementia.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBrain Informatics - 17th International Conference, BI 2024, Proceedings
EditorsSirawaj Itthipuripat, Giorgio A. Ascoli, Anan Li, Narun Pat, Hongzhi Kuai
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages81-93
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9789819632930
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025
Event17th International Conference on Brain Informatics, BI 2024 - Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: 13 Dec 202415 Dec 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume15541 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th International Conference on Brain Informatics, BI 2024
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityBangkok
Period13/12/2415/12/24

Keywords

  • Alzheimer’s dementia
  • clinical dementia rating scale
  • connectomics
  • early assessment of dementia
  • multimodal magnetic resonance imaging

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