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ArticlePredictive Intelligence in Medicine. PRIME (Workshop)2019

TADPOLE Challenge: Accurate Alzheimer's disease prediction through crowdsourced forecasting of future data.

Răzvan V Marinescu, Neil P Oxtoby, Alexandra L Young, Esther E Bron, Arthur W Toga, Michael W Weiner, Frederik Barkhof, Nick C Fox, Polina Golland, Stefan Klein and 1 more

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Article in Predictive Intelligence in Medicine. PRIME (Workshop), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Răzvan V MarinescuComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, USA.
Neil P OxtobyCentre for Medical Image Computing, University College London, UK.
Alexandra L YoungCentre for Medical Image Computing, University College London, UK.
Esther E BronBiomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam, Erasmus MC, Netherlands.
Arthur W TogaLaboratory of NeuroImaging, University of Southern California, USA.
Michael W WeinerCenter for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, UCSF, USA.
Frederik BarkhofBiomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam, Erasmus MC, Netherlands.
Nick C FoxDementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, UK.
Polina GollandComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, USA.
Stefan KleinBiomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam, Erasmus MC, Netherlands.
Daniel C AlexanderCentre for Medical Image Computing, University College London, UK.

Funding

Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative - SupplementU01AG024904 · NIA · NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE RES &EDUC · PI WEINER, MICHAEL W · 2004 to 2015
$121.0M
VASCULAR RISK AND COGNITIVE STATUS IN A LATINO POPULATIONP50AG005142 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI BRASKIE, MEREDITH NICOLE · 1985 to 2019
$41.0M
Training and DisseminationP41EB015902 · NIBIB · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI KIKINIS, RON, WESTIN, CARL-FREDRIK · 2012 to 2022
$20.9M
MRI-GENetics Interface Exploration_MRI-GENIE_StudyR01NS086905 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ROST, NATALIA S · 2015 to 2019
$3.3M
NIA NIH HHS P50 AG005142NIA NIH HHS U01 AG024904NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB015902NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS086905
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Alzheimer's Disease Prediction Of Longitudinal Evolution (TADPOLE) Challenge compares the performance of algorithms at predicting the future evolution of individuals at risk of Alzheimer's disease. TADPOLE Challenge participants train their models and algorithms on historical data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) study. Participants are then required to make forecasts of three key outcomes for ADNI-3 rollover participants: clinical diagnosis, Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale Cognitive Subdomain (ADAS-Cog 13), and total volume of the ventricles - which are then compared with future measurements. Strong points of the challenge are that the test data did not exist at the time of forecasting (it was acquired afterwards), and that it focuses on the challenging problem of cohort selection for clinical trials by identifying fast progressors. The submission phase of TADPOLE was open until 15 November 2017; since then data has been acquired until April 2019 from 219 subjects with 223 clinical visits and 150 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans, which was used for the evaluation of the participants' predictions. Thirty-three teams participated with a total of 92 submissions. No single submission was best at predicting all three outcomes. For diagnosis prediction, the best forecast (team Frog), which was based on gradient boosting, obtained a multiclass area under the receiver-operating curve (MAUC) of 0.931, while for ventricle prediction the best forecast (team

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