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ArticleScientific reports2023

An Alzheimer's disease category progression sub-grouping analysis using manifold learning on ADNI.

Dustin van der Haar, Ahmed Moustafa, Samuel L Warren, Hany Alashwal, Terence van Zyl

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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Dustin van der HaarAcademy of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. dvanderhaar@uj.ac.za.
Ahmed MoustafaDepartment of Human Anatomy and Physiology, University of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
Samuel L WarrenSchool of Psychology, Faculty of Society and Design, Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
Hany AlashwalCollege of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Terence van ZylInstitute for Intelligent Systems, University of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
University of Johannesburg · ZABond University · AUUnited Arab Emirates University · AE

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Abstract

Many current statistical and machine learning methods have been used to explore Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its associated patterns that contribute to the disease. However, there has been limited success in understanding the relationship between cognitive tests, biomarker data, and patient AD category progressions. In this work, we perform exploratory data analysis of AD health record data by analyzing various learned lower dimensional manifolds to separate early-stage AD categories further. Specifically, we used Spectral embedding, Multidimensional scaling, Isomap, t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbour Embedding, Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection, and sparse denoising autoencoder based manifolds on the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset. We then determine the clustering potential of the learned embeddings and then determine if category sub-groupings or sub-categories can be found. We then used a Kruskal-sWallis H test to determine the statistical significance of the discovered AD subcategories. Our results show that the existing AD categories do exhibit sub-groupings, especially in mild cognitive impairment transitions in many of the tested manifolds, showing there may be a need for further subcategories to describe AD progression.

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Alzheimer DiseaseCognitive DysfunctionCluster AnalysisData AnalysisHumansNeuroimaging

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PMID37380746
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