Brain multi-contrast, multi-atlas segmentation of diffusion tensor imaging and ensemble learning automatically diagnose late-life depression.


Journal

Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
20 Dec 2023
Historique:
received: 01 08 2023
accepted: 13 12 2023
medline: 21 12 2023
pubmed: 21 12 2023
entrez: 20 12 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

We investigated the potential of machine learning for diagnostic classification in late-life major depression based on an advanced whole brain white matter segmentation framework. Twenty-six late-life depression and 12 never depressed individuals aged > 55 years, matched for age, MMSE, and education underwent brain diffusion tensor imaging and a multi-contrast, multi-atlas segmentation in MRIcloud. Fractional anisotropy volume, mean fractional anisotropy, trace, axial and radial diffusivity (RD) extracted from 146 white matter parcels for each subject were used to train and test the AdaBoost classifier using stratified 12-fold cross validation. Performance was evaluated using various measures. The statistical power of the classifier was assessed using label permutation test. Statistical analysis did not yield significant differences in DTI measures between the groups. The classifier achieved a balanced accuracy of 71% and an Area Under the Receiver Operator Characteristic Curve (ROC-AUC) of 0.81 by trace, and a balanced accuracy of 70% and a ROC-AUC of 0.80 by RD, in limbic, cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical loop, brainstem, external and internal capsules, callosal and cerebellar structures. Both indices shared important structures for classification, while fornix was the most important structure for classification by both indices. The classifier proved statistically significant, as trace and RD ROC-AUC scores after permutation were lower than those obtained with the actual data (P = 0.022 and P = 0.024, respectively). Similar results were obtained with the Gradient Boosting classifier, whereas the RBF-kernel Support Vector Machine with k-best feature selection did not exceed the chance level. Finally, AdaBoost significantly predicted the class using all features together. Limitations are discussed. The results encourage further investigation of the implemented methods for computer aided diagnostics and anatomically informed therapeutics.

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pubmed: 38123613
doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-49935-z
pii: 10.1038/s41598-023-49935-z
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eng

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© 2023. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Kostas Siarkos (K)

Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, First Department of Psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. ksiarkos@med.uoa.gr.

Efstratios Karavasilis (E)

Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
Second Department of Radiology, Attikon General University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Georgios Velonakis (G)

Second Department of Radiology, Attikon General University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Charalabos Papageorgiou (C)

University Mental Health, Neurosciences and Precision Medicine Research Institute "Costas Stefanis", Athens, Greece.

Nikolaos Smyrnis (N)

Second Department of Psychiatry, Attikon General University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Nikolaos Kelekis (N)

Second Department of Radiology, Attikon General University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Antonios Politis (A)

Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, First Department of Psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, USA.

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