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ArticleScientific reports2024

Machine learning and XAI approaches highlight the strong connection between

Alessandro Fania, Alfonso Monaco, Nicola Amoroso, Loredana Bellantuono, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Najada Firza, Antonio Lacalamita, Ester Pantaleo, Sabina Tangaro, Alena Velichevskaya and 1 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. 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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11citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Alessandro Fania *Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica M. Merlin, Universitá degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, 70125, Bari, Italy.
Alfonso Monaco *Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica M. Merlin, Universitá degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, 70125, Bari, Italy. alfonso.monaco@ba.infn.it.
Nicola AmorosoIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Bari, 70125, Bari, Italy.
Loredana BellantuonoIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Bari, 70125, Bari, Italy.
Roberto Cazzolla GattiDepartment of Biological Sciences, Geological and Environmental (BiGeA), Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, 40126, Bologna, Italy.
Najada FirzaDipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, 70124, Bari, Italy.
Antonio LacalamitaDipartimento Interateneo di Fisica M. Merlin, Universitá degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, 70125, Bari, Italy.
Ester PantaleoDipartimento Interateneo di Fisica M. Merlin, Universitá degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, 70125, Bari, Italy.
Sabina TangaroIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Bari, 70125, Bari, Italy.
Alena VelichevskayaBiological Institute Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia, 634050.
Roberto BellottiDipartimento Interateneo di Fisica M. Merlin, Universitá degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, 70125, Bari, Italy.
University of Bari Aldo Moro · ITIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari · ITCatholic University Our Lady of Good Counsel · ALNational Research Tomsk State University · RUUniversity of Bologna · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia with millions of affected patients worldwide. Currently, there is still no cure and AD is often diagnosed long time after onset because there is no clear diagnosis. Thus, it is essential to study the physiology and pathogenesis of AD, investigating the risk factors that could be strongly connected to the disease onset. Despite AD, like other complex diseases, is the result of the combination of several factors, there is emerging agreement that environmental pollution should play a pivotal role in the causes of disease. In this work, we implemented an Artificial Intelligence model to predict AD mortality, expressed as Standardized Mortality Ratio, at Italian provincial level over 5 years. We employed a set of publicly available variables concerning pollution, health, society and economy to feed a Random Forest algorithm. Using methods based on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) we found that air pollution (mainly

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Alzheimer DiseaseEnvironmental PollutantsArtificial IntelligenceEnvironmental PollutionHumansMachine LearningEnvironmental PollutantsAlzheimerExplainable artificial intelligenceMachine learningOne healthPollutionStandardized mortality ratio (SMR)

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PMID38443419
PMCPMC11319812
OpenAlexW4392465195

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