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ArticleHuman brain mapping2015

Detection of Alzheimer's disease signature in MR images seven years before conversion to dementia: Toward an early individual prognosis.

Pierrick Coupé, Vladimir S Fonov, Charlotte Bernard, Azar Zandifar, Simon F Eskildsen, Catherine Helmer, José V Manjón, Hélène Amieva, Jean-François Dartigues, Michèle Allard and 3 more

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Article in Human brain mapping, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Pierrick CoupéLaboratoire Bordelais De Recherche En Informatique, Unité Mixte De Recherche CNRS (UMR 5800), PICTURA Research Group, Bordeaux, France.
Vladimir S FonovMcConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Charlotte BernardUniversity of Bordeaux, INCIA, UMR 5287, Talence, France.
Azar ZandifarMcConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Simon F EskildsenCenter of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Catherine HelmerINSERM, ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France.
José V ManjónInstituto De Aplicaciones De Las Tecnologías De La Información Y De Las Comunicaciones Avanzadas (ITACA), Universitat Politècnica De València, Camino De Vera S/N, Valencia, 46022, Spain.
Hélène AmievaINSERM, ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France.
Jean-François DartiguesINSERM, ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France.
Michèle AllardUniversity of Bordeaux, INCIA, UMR 5287, Talence, France.
Gwenaelle CathelineUniversity of Bordeaux, INCIA, UMR 5287, Talence, France.
D Louis CollinsMcConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Funding

Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative - SupplementU01AG024904 · NIA · NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE RES &EDUC · PI WEINER, MICHAEL W · 2004 to 2015
$121.0M
UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Core CenterP30AG010129 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI DECARLI, CHARLES · 1991 to 2020
$28.3M
"MR Morphometrics and Cognitive Decline Rate in Large-Scale Aging Studies"K01AG030514 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI CARMICHAEL, OWEN T. · 2008 to 2012
$495k
NIA NIH HHS K01 AG030514NIA NIH HHS P30AG010129NIA NIH HHS U01 AG024904
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Finding very early biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) to aid in individual prognosis is of major interest to accelerate the development of new therapies. Among the potential biomarkers, neurodegeneration measurements from MRI are considered as good candidates but have so far not been effective at the early stages of the pathology. Our objective is to investigate the efficiency of a new MR-based hippocampal grading score to detect incident dementia in cognitively intact patients. This new score is based on a pattern recognition strategy, providing a grading measure that reflects the similarity of the anatomical patterns of the subject under study with dataset composed of healthy subjects and patients with AD. Hippocampal grading was evaluated on subjects from the Three-City cohort, with a followup period of 12 years. Experiments demonstrate that hippocampal grading yields prediction accuracy up to 72.5% (P < 0.0001) 7 years before conversion to AD, better than both hippocampal volume (58.1%, P = 0.04) and MMSE score (56.9%, P = 0.08). The area under the ROC curve (AUC) supports the efficiency of imaging biomarkers with a gain of 8.4 percentage points for hippocampal grade (73.0%) over hippocampal volume (64.6%). Adaptation of the proposed framework to clinical score estimation is also presented. Compared with previous studies investigating new biomarkers for AD prediction over much shorter periods, the very long followup of the Three-City cohort demonstrates the important clinical potential of the proposed imaging biomarker. The high accuracy obtained with this new imaging biomarker paves the way for computer-based prognostic aides to help the clinician identify cognitively intact subjects that are at high risk to develop AD.

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AgedAged, 80 and overAlzheimer DiseaseArea Under CurveCohort StudiesDatabases, FactualDementiaDisease ProgressionElectronic Data ProcessingFemaleHippocampusHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingMalePsychiatric Status Rating ScalesAlzheimerhippocampusMRI biomarker

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PMID26454259
PMCPMC6869408

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