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A Machine Learning Approach to Design an Efficient Selective Screening of Mild Cognitive Impairment

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Classifying Cognitive Profiles Using Machine Learning with Privileged Information in Mild Cognitive Impairment.

Hanin H Alahmadi¹, Yuan Shen¹, Shereen Fouad²

¹School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham Birmingham, UK.

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

|December 3, 2016

Summary

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Machine learning accurately distinguishes Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) patients from healthy individuals using cognitive tests and functional MRI (fMRI) data. This approach aids early dementia diagnosis by integrating brain imaging as privileged information.

Keywords:

discriminative feature extraction fMRI graph feature learning vector quantization learning with privileged information linear discriminant analysis supervised metric learning

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Machine Learning

Background:

Early dementia diagnosis is crucial for disease management and treatment.
Machine learning (ML) shows promise for diagnosing cognitive impairment.
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is an intermediate stage between normal aging and dementia.

Purpose of the Study:

To discriminate between MCI patients and healthy controls using ML classifiers.
To evaluate the efficacy of combining cognitive and fMRI data via a "Learning with privileged information" (LPI) approach.
To identify cognitive and neuroimaging features relevant for MCI classification.

Main Methods:

Generalized Matrix Learning Vector Quantization (GMLVQ) classifiers were employed.
Participants underwent cognitive assessments (working memory, inhibition, attention).
fMRI data (pre- and post-training on sequence learning) were collected and used as privileged information (PI).

Main Results:

LPI-guided GMLVQ classifiers outperformed baseline classifiers using only cognitive data.
Divided attention was consistently relevant; cognitive inhibition became relevant with PI.
fMRI analysis indicated post-training signal and pre-training connectivity are diagnostic.

Conclusions:

ML, particularly LPI-enhanced GMLVQ, effectively differentiates MCI from healthy controls.
Integrating fMRI data as PI enhances classification accuracy and identifies key cognitive markers.
The study highlights the diagnostic potential of specific fMRI measures (pre- and post-training) for cognitive skills in MCI.