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ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2019

Deep Learning and Multiplex Networks for Accurate Modeling of Brain Age.

Nicola Amoroso, Marianna La Rocca, Loredana Bellantuono, Domenico Diacono, Annarita Fanizzi, Eufemia Lella, Angela Lombardi, Tommaso Maggipinto, Alfonso Monaco, Sabina Tangaro and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Nicola AmorosoDipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin", Università degli studi di Bari "A. Moro", Bari, Italy.
Marianna La RoccaLaboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Loredana BellantuonoDipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin", Università degli studi di Bari "A. Moro", Bari, Italy.
Domenico DiaconoIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bari, Italy.
Annarita FanizziIstituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II" - I.R.C.C.S., Bari, Italy.
Eufemia LellaDipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin", Università degli studi di Bari "A. Moro", Bari, Italy.
Angela LombardiIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bari, Italy.
Tommaso MaggipintoDipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin", Università degli studi di Bari "A. Moro", Bari, Italy.
Alfonso MonacoIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bari, Italy.
Sabina TangaroIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bari, Italy.
Roberto BellottiDipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M. Merlin", Università degli studi di Bari "A. Moro", Bari, Italy.

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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent works have extensively investigated the possibility to predict brain aging from T1-weighted MRI brain scans. The main purposes of these studies are the investigation of subject-specific aging mechanisms and the development of accurate models for age prediction. Deviations between predicted and chronological age are known to occur in several neurodegenerative diseases; as a consequence, reaching higher levels of age prediction accuracy is of paramount importance to develop diagnostic tools. In this work, we propose a novel complex network model for brain based on segmenting T1-weighted MRI scans in rectangular boxes, called patches, and measuring pairwise similarities using Pearson's correlation to define a subject-specific network. We fed a deep neural network with nodal metrics, evaluating both the intensity and the uniformity of connections, to predict subjects' ages. Our model reaches high accuracies which compare favorably with state-of-the-art approaches. We observe that the complex relationships involved in this brain description cannot be accurately modeled with standard machine learning approaches, such as Ridge and Lasso regression, Random Forest, and Support Vector Machines, instead a deep neural network has to be used.

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age predictionagingbraindeep learninglifespanmachine learningmultiplex networksstructural MRI

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PMID31178715
PMCPMC6538815

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