期刊
NEUROIMAGE
卷 50, 期 3, 页码 935-949出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.12.120
关键词
Brain connectivity; Sparse inverse covariance; Alzheimer's; PET; Biomarker
资金
- NIH [U01 AG024904]
- National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
- Pfizer Inc.
- Wyeth Research
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Eli Lilly and Company
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Merck Co. Inc.
- AstraZeneca AB
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
- Alzheimer's Association
- Eisai Global Clinical Development
- Elan Corporation plc, Forest Laboratories
- Institute for the Study of Aging
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn [0825827] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Rapid advances in neuroimaging techniques provide great potentials for Study of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Existing findings have shown that AD is closely related to alteration in the functional brain network, i.e., the functional connectivity between different brain regions. In this paper, we propose a method based on sparse inverse covariance estimation (SICE) to identify functional brain connectivity networks from PET data. Our method is able to identify both the connectivity network structure and strength for a large number of brain regions with small sample sizes. We apply the proposed method to the PET data of AD, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and normal control (NC) subjects. Compared with NC, AD shows decrease in the amount of inter-region functional connectivity within the temporal lobe especially between the area around hippocampus and other regions and increase in the amount of connectivity within the frontal lobe as well as between the parietal and occipital lobes. Also, AD shows weaker between-lobe connectivity than within-lobe connectivity and weaker between-hemisphere connectivity, compared with NC. In addition to being a method for knowledge discovery about AD, the proposed SICE method can also be used for classifying new subjects, which makes it a suitable approach for novel connectivity-based AD biornarker-identification. Our experiments show that the best sensitivity and specificity our method can achieve in AD vs. NC classification are 88% and 88%, respectively. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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