Ensemble based on static classifier selection for automated diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment.

Journal: Journal of neuroscience methods
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of neurodegenerative dementia in the elderly population. Scientific research is very active in the challenge of designing automated approaches to achieve an early and certain diagnosis. Recently an international competition among AD predictors has been organized: "A Machine learning neuroimaging challenge for automated diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment" (MLNeCh). This competition is based on pre-processed sets of T1-weighted Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) to be classified in four categories: stable AD, individuals with MCI who converted to AD, individuals with MCI who did not convert to AD and healthy controls.

Authors

  • Loris Nanni
    DEI, University of Padova, Via Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova, Italy.
  • Alessandra Lumini
    DISI, Università di Bologna, Via Sacchi 3, 47521 Cesena, Italy.
  • Nicolò Zaffonato
    DEI, University of Padua, viale Gradenigo 6, Padua, Italy.