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  • Neuroimaging
  • Neurology
  • Biomedical Engineering

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  • Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) encompasses several neurodegenerative disorders characterized by progressive changes in brain white matter (WM) and grey matter (GM).
  • Understanding the specific microstructural alterations in different FTD variants is crucial for accurate diagnosis and management.
  • Diffusion MRI techniques offer sensitive measures of brain microstructure, but their application in differentiating FTD subtypes requires further refinement.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess WM and GM microstructure in FTD variants using the neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) model.
  • To develop and evaluate a machine-learning algorithm for classifying FTD subtypes based on diffusion MRI metrics and neuropsychological data.
  • To compare the efficacy of NODDI with standard diffusion tensor (DT) imaging in detecting disease-relevant microstructural changes.

Main Methods:

  • Acquired multi-shell diffusion MRI and conducted neuropsychological assessments in controls and participants with behavioural variant FTD (bvFTD), semantic-variant PPA (svPPA), nonfluent-variant PPA (nfvPPA), and semantic-bvFTD (sbvFTD).
  • Analyzed diffusion MRI metrics including fractional anisotropy (FA), mean diffusivity (MD), intracellular-volume fraction (ICVF), and orientation-dispersion index (ODI) using tract-based and GM-based spatial statistics.
  • Trained Support Vector Machine (SVM) models using combinations of diffusion MRI features and cognitive scores to classify FTD subtypes.

Main Results:

  • Widespread WM alterations (reduced FA and increased MD) were observed across all FTD variants.
  • Reductions in GM and WM ICVF and ODI showed distinct patterns correlating with specific FTD subtypes.
  • The SVM algorithm, integrating NODDI metrics and cognitive data, achieved 98.6% accuracy in classifying FTD subtypes, outperforming standard DT imaging models.

Conclusions:

  • NODDI effectively captures subtle microstructural alterations in both GM and WM in FTD, offering advantages over standard DT imaging.
  • Integrating NODDI-derived diffusion MRI metrics with cognitive data in machine-learning models facilitates accurate differentiation of FTD subtypes.
  • This approach holds promise for improving diagnostic accuracy and understanding the pathophysiology of diverse FTD syndromes.