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Alice V Chavanne^1,2, Charlotte Meinke¹, Till Langhammer¹

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Psychiatry
Machine Learning

Background:

Machine learning shows promise for predicting psychotherapy outcomes but struggles with moderate accuracies using clinical data.
Neuroimaging data has potential for predicting treatment response, yet previous studies were exploratory with small sample sizes.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the added predictive value of neuroimaging data compared to clinical and demographic data for psychotherapy outcomes.
To predict treatment outcome for virtual reality exposure therapy in spider phobia patients using a multimodal machine learning approach.

Main Methods:

Utilized pretreatment structural and functional MRI data from 190 spider phobia patients in a bicentric sample.
Employed a two-level ensemble machine learning strategy with eight 1st-level classifiers and one 2nd-level classifier.
Assessed prediction accuracy across various data modalities including clinical scores, sociodemographics, and multiple fMRI-derived metrics.

Main Results:

No 1st-level or 2nd-level classifier surpassed chance performance, except for BOLD signal variance (1st-level balanced accuracy = 0.63).
Neuroimaging data did not offer incremental predictive accuracy over clinical and sociodemographic data alone for spider phobia treatment.
BOLD signal variance indicated potential predictive contribution from widespread brain regions.

Conclusions:

Neuroimaging data, in this study, did not enhance the prediction of psychotherapy outcomes for spider phobia.
Findings suggest caution when interpreting prediction performance from small, single-site neuroimaging studies.
Larger, multimodal datasets are required to validate neuroimaging predictors for anxiety disorder treatment response.