Domain transfer learning for MCI conversion prediction

Bo Cheng, Daoqiang Zhang, Dinggang Shen

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Abstract

In recent studies of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), it has increasing attentions in identifying mild cognitive impairment (MCI) converters (MCI-C) from MCI non-converters (MCI-NC). Note that MCI is a prodromal stage of AD, with possibility to convert to AD. Most traditional methods for MCI conversion prediction learn information only from MCI subjects (including MCI-C and MCI-NC), not from other related subjects, e.g., AD and normal controls (NC), which can actually aid the classification between MCI-C and MCI-NC. In this paper, we propose a novel domain-transfer learning method for MCI conversion prediction. Different from most existing methods, we classify MCI-C and MCI-NC with aid from the domain knowledge learned with AD and NC subjects as auxiliary domain to further improve the classification performance. Our method contains two key components: (1) the cross-domain kernel learning for transferring auxiliary domain knowledge, and (2) the adapted support vector machine (SVM) decision function construction for cross-domain and auxiliary domain knowledge fusion. Experimental results on the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database show that the proposed method can significantly improve the classification performance between MCI-C and MCI-NC, with aid of domain knowledge learned from AD and NC subjects.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI2012 - 15th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsNicholas Ayache, Herve Delingette, Polina Golland, Kensaku Mori
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages82-90
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783642334146
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2012 - Nice, France
Duration: 2012 Oct 12012 Oct 5

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7510 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2012
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNice
Period12/10/112/10/5

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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