Predication of different stages of Alzheimer's disease using neighborhood component analysis and ensemble decision tree.

Journal: Journal of neuroscience methods
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: There is a spectrum of the progression from healthy control (HC) to mild cognitive impairment (MCI) without conversion to Alzheimer's disease (AD), to MCI with conversion to AD (cMCI), and to AD. This study aims to predict the different disease stages using brain structural information provided by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data.

Authors

  • Mingwu Jin
    Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, 502 Yates Street, Box 19059, Arlington, TX 76019, United States. Electronic address: mingwu@uta.edu.
  • Weishu Deng
    Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, 502 Yates Street, Box 19059, Arlington, TX 76019, United States.