Classification results of artificial neural networks for Alzheimer's disease detection

  • Authors:
  • Alexandre Savio;Maite García-Sebastián;Carmen Hernández;Manuel Graña;Jorge Villanúa

  • Affiliations:
  • Grupo de Inteligencia Computacional;Grupo de Inteligencia Computacional;Grupo de Inteligencia Computacional;Grupo de Inteligencia Computacional;Osatek, Hospital Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain

  • Venue:
  • IDEAL'09 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent data engineering and automated learning
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Detection of Alzheimer's disease on brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a highly sought goal in the Neurosciences. We used four different models of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN): Back-propagation (BP), Radial Basis Networks (RBF), Learning Vector Quantization Networks (LVQ) and Probabilistic Neural Networks (PNN) to perform classification of patients of mild Alzheimer's disease vs. control subjects. Features are extracted from the brain volume data using Voxel-based Morphometry (VBM) detection clusters. The voxel location detection clusters given by the VBM were applied to select the voxel values upon which the classification features were computed. We have evaluated feature vectors computed from the GM segmentation volumes using the VBM clusters as voxel selection masks. The study has been performed on MRI volumes of 98 females, after careful demographic selection from the Open Access Series of Imaging Studies (OASIS) database, which is a large number of subjects compared to current reported studies.