The Brain Chart of Aging: Machine-learning analytics reveals links between brain aging, white matter disease, amyloid burden, and cognition in the iSTAGING consortium of 10,216 harmonized MR scans.

Journal: Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Relationships between brain atrophy patterns of typical aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD), white matter disease, cognition, and AD neuropathology were investigated via machine learning in a large harmonized magnetic resonance imaging database (11 studies; 10,216 subjects).

Authors

  • Mohamad Habes
    Biggs Alzheimer's Institute, University of Texas San Antonio Health Science Center, USA.
  • Raymond Pomponio
    Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
  • Haochang Shou
    Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Imaging Laboratory (AIBIL), Center for and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics (AID), Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • Jimit Doshi
    Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • Elizabeth Mamourian
    Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Imaging Laboratory (AIBIL), Center for and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics (AID), Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • Guray Erus
    Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Imaging Laboratory (AIBIL), Center for and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics (AID), Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • Ilya Nasrallah
    Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
  • Lenore J Launer
    Neuroepidemiology Section, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
  • Tanweer Rashid
    Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
  • Murat Bilgel
    Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  • Yong Fan
    CPB/ECMO Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310052 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
  • Jon B Toledo
    Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Institute on Aging, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
  • Kristine Yaffe
    Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  • Aristeidis Sotiras
    Department of Radiology and Institute of Informatics, Washington University in St. Luis, St. Luis, MO63110, USA.
  • Dhivya Srinivasan
    Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Imaging Laboratory (AIBIL), Center for and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics (AID), Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • Mark Espeland
    Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
  • Colin Masters
    Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Paul Maruff
    Florey Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia.
  • Jurgen Fripp
    CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, Australian e-Health Research Centre CSIRO, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
  • Henry Völzk
    Institute for Community Medicine, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
  • Sterling C Johnson
    Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
  • John C Morris
    Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
  • Marilyn S Albert
    Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  • Michael I Miller
    Center for Imaging Science, Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: mim@cis.jhu.edu.
  • R Nick Bryan
    Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (J.D.R., L.X., A.K., J.M.E., T.C., I.M.N., S.M., J.C.G.); Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif (J.D.R., A.M.R.); Penn Image Computing and Science Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa (X.L., J.W.); University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa (M.T.D.); Mecklenburg Radiology Associates, Charlotte, NC (E.J.B.); Department of Radiology, University of Texas, Austin, Tex (R.N.B.); and Division of Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa (I.M.N.).
  • Hans J Grabe
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany.
  • Susan M Resnick
    Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  • David A Wolk
    Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • Christos Davatzikos
    Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Imaging Laboratory (AIBIL), Center for and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics (AID), Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.