Automatic classification of patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy using diffusion MRI datasets

Sahand Talai; Kai Boelmans; Jan Sedlacik; Nils D. Forkert

doi:10.1117/12.2254418

3 March 2017 Automatic classification of patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy using diffusion MRI datasets

Sahand Talai, Kai Boelmans, Jan Sedlacik, Nils D. Forkert

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Proceedings Volume 10134, Medical Imaging 2017: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 101342H (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254418
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Parkinsonian syndromes encompass a spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases, which can be classified into various subtypes. The differentiation of these subtypes is typically conducted based on clinical criteria. Due to the overlap of intra-syndrome symptoms, the accurate differential diagnosis based on clinical guidelines remains a challenge with failure rates up to 25%. The aim of this study is to present an image-based classification method of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), an atypical variant of PD. Therefore, apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) parameter maps were calculated based on diffusion-tensor magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) datasets. Mean ADC values were determined in 82 brain regions using an atlas-based approach. The extracted mean ADC values for each patient were then used as features for classification using a linear kernel support vector machine classifier. To increase the classification accuracy, a feature selection was performed, which resulted in the top 17 attributes to be used as the final input features. A leave-one-out cross validation based on 56 PD and 21 PSP subjects revealed that the proposed method is capable of differentiating PD and PSP patients with an accuracy of 94.8%. In conclusion, the classification of PD and PSP patients based on ADC features obtained from diffusion MRI datasets is a promising new approach for the differentiation of Parkinsonian syndromes in the broader context of decision support systems.

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Sahand Talai, Kai Boelmans, Jan Sedlacik, and Nils D. Forkert "Automatic classification of patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy using diffusion MRI datasets", Proc. SPIE 10134, Medical Imaging 2017: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 101342H (3 March 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254418

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