Classifying Stages of Mild Cognitive Impairment via Augmented Graph Embedding

  • Haoteng Tang
  • , Lei Guo
  • , Emily Dennis
  • , Paul M. Thompson
  • , Heng Huang
  • , Olusola Ajilore
  • , Alex D. Leow
  • , Liang Zhan

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Abstract

Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a clinically intermediate stage in the course of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). MCI does not always lead to dementia. Some MCI patients may stay in the MCI status for the rest of their life, while others will develop AD eventually. Therefore, classification methods that help to distinguish MCI from earlier or later stages of the disease are important to understand the progression of AD. In this paper, we propose a novel computational framework - named Augmented Graph Embedding, or AGE - to tackle this challenge. In this new AGE framework, the random walk approach is first applied to brain structural networks derived from diffusion-weighted MRI to extract nodal feature vectors. A technique adapted from natural language processing is used to analyze these nodal feature vectors, and a multimodal augmentation procedure is adopted to improve classification accuracy. We validated this new AGE framework on data from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). Results show advantages of the proposed framework, compared to a range of existing methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMultimodal Brain Image Analysis and Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy - 4th International Workshop, MBIA 2019, and 7th International Workshop, MFCA 2019, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2019, Proceedings
EditorsDajiang Zhu, Jingwen Yan, Heng Huang, Li Shen, Paul M. Thompson, Carl-Fredrik Westin, Xavier Pennec, Sarang Joshi, Mads Nielsen, Stefan Sommer, Tom Fletcher, Stanley Durrleman
PublisherSpringer
Pages30-38
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030332259
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event4th International Workshop on Multimodal Brain Image Analysis, MBAI 2019, and the 7th International Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy, MFCA 2019, held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 17 Oct 201917 Oct 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11846 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th International Workshop on Multimodal Brain Image Analysis, MBAI 2019, and the 7th International Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy, MFCA 2019, held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period17/10/1917/10/19

Keywords

  • Brain structural network
  • Data augmentation
  • Graph embedding
  • Mild Cognitive Impairment
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Random walk

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