DeepAtrophy: Teaching a Neural Network to Differentiate Progressive Changes from Noise on Longitudinal MRI in Alzheimer's Disease

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12948v1
• Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 18:23:02 GMT
• Title: DeepAtrophy: Teaching a Neural Network to Differentiate Progressive Changes from Noise on Longitudinal MRI in Alzheimer's Disease
• Authors: Mengjin Dong, Long Xie, Sandhitsu R. Das, Jiancong Wang, Laura E.M. Wisse, Robin deFlores, David A. Wolk, Paul Yushkevich (for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative)
• Abstract summary: longitudinal MRI change measures can be confounded by non-biological factors. Deep learning methods can be trained to differentiate between biological changes and non-biological factors.
• Score: 1.465540676497032
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Volume change measures derived from longitudinal MRI (e.g. hippocampal atrophy) are a well-studied biomarker of disease progression in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and are used in clinical trials to track the therapeutic efficacy of disease-modifying treatments. However, longitudinal MRI change measures can be confounded by non-biological factors, such as different degrees of head motion and susceptibility artifact between pairs of MRI scans. We hypothesize that deep learning methods applied directly to pairs of longitudinal MRI scans can be trained to differentiate between biological changes and non-biological factors better than conventional approaches based on deformable image registration. To achieve this, we make a simplifying assumption that biological factors are associated with time (i.e. the hippocampus shrinks overtime in the aging population) whereas non-biological factors are independent of time. We then formulate deep learning networks to infer the temporal order of same-subject MRI scans input to the network in arbitrary order; as well as to infer ratios between interscan intervals for two pairs of same-subject MRI scans. In the test dataset, these networks perform better in tasks of temporal ordering (89.3%) and interscan interval inference (86.1%) than a state-of-the-art deformation-based morphometry method ALOHA (76.6% and 76.1% respectively) (Das et al., 2012). Furthermore, we derive a disease progression score from the network that is able to detect a group difference between 58 preclinical AD and 75 beta-amyloid-negative cognitively normal individuals within one year, compared to two years for ALOHA. This suggests that deep learning can be trained to differentiate MRI changes due to biological factors (tissue loss) from changes due to non-biological factors, leading to novel biomarkers that are more sensitive to longitudinal changes at the earliest stages of AD.

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