Investigating conversion from mild cognitive impairment to alzheimer's disease using latent space manipulation

2022-10
Ayvaz, Deniz Sezin
Baytaş, İnci M.
Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive neurologic disorder, is the most common cause of dementia, affecting millions worldwide. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is considered an intermediate stage before Alzheimer's. Early prediction of the conversion from MCI to Alzheimer's is crucial to take necessary precautions for decelerating the disease progression and developing suitable treatments. This study proposes a deep learning framework to identify patients whose diagnoses might change from MCI to Alzheimer’s in the following stages. In particular, latent space manipulation techniques are applied to the latent space of a variational autoencoder trained with MCI and Alzheimer’s patients. The manipulation step aims to reveal significant attributes triggering the conversion. Secondly, a correlation between the manipulation’s magnitude and the conversion time is investigated to introduce a predictive perspective. Experimental results show promising quantitative and qualitative results on one of the literature's most extensive and commonly used Alzheimer’s disease neuroimaging datasets.

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D. S. Ayvaz and İ. M. Baytaş, “Investigating conversion from mild cognitive impairment to alzheimer’s disease using latent space manipulation,” Erdemli, Mersin, TÜRKİYE, 2022, p. 2097, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://hibit2022.ims.metu.edu.tr/.