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Reproducible evaluation of diffusion MRI features for automatic classification of patients with Alzheimer's disease

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Diffusion MRI is the modality of choice to study alterations of white matter. In past years, various works have used diffusion MRI for automatic classification of Alzheimer's disease. However, classification performance obtained with different approaches is difficult to compare because of variations in components such as input data, participant selection, image preprocessing, feature extraction, feature rescaling (FR), feature selection (FS) and cross-validation (CV) procedures. Moreover, these studies are also difficult to reproduce because these different components are not readily available. In a previous work (Samper-González et al. 2018), we propose an open-source framework for the reproducible evaluation of AD classification from T1-weighted (T1w) MRI and PET data. In the present paper, we first extend this framework to diffusion MRI data. Specifically, we add: conversion of diffusion MRI ADNI data into the BIDS standard and pipelines for diffusion MRI preprocessing and feature extraction. We then apply the framework to compare different components. First, FS has a positive impact on classification results: highest balanced accuracy (BA) improved from 0.76 to 0.82 for task CN vs AD. Secondly, voxel-wise features generally gives better performance than regional features. Fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) provided comparable results for voxel-wise features. Moreover, we observe that the poor performance obtained in tasks involving MCI were potentially caused by the small data samples, rather than by the data imbalance. Furthermore, no extensive classification difference exists for different degree of smoothing and registration methods. Besides, we demonstrate that using non-nested validation of FS leads to unreliable and over-optimistic results: 5% up to 40% relative increase in BA. Lastly, with proper FR and FS, the performance of diffusion MRI features is comparable to that of T1w MRI. All the code of the framework and the experiments are publicly available: general-purpose tools have been integrated into the Clinica software package ( www.clinica.run ) and the paper-specific code is available at: https://github.com/aramis-lab/AD-ML .
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hal-02566361 , version 1 (07-05-2020)
hal-02566361 , version 2 (11-06-2020)

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Junhao Wen, Jorge Samper-González, Simona Bottani, Alexandre Routier, Ninon Burgos, et al.. Reproducible evaluation of diffusion MRI features for automatic classification of patients with Alzheimer's disease. Neuroinformatics, 2021, 19 (1), pp.57-78. ⟨10.1007/s12021-020-09469-5⟩. ⟨hal-02566361v2⟩
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