Discriminative analysis of early Alzheimer's disease using multi-modal imaging and multi-level characterization with multi-classifier (M3)

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2187-2195

  Dai, Zhengjia ^a   Yan, Chaogan ^a   Wang, Zhiqun ^b   Wang, Jinhui ^a   Xia, Mingrui ^a   Li, Kuncheng ^b,c   He, Yong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ALFF; Alzheimer's disease; Connectivity; Connectome; FMRI; MRI; Network; ReHo

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMPLITUDE OF LOW FREQUENCY FLUCTUATIONS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFIER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR OCCIPITAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; MULTI CLASSIFIER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REGIONAL FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY STRENGTH; REGIONAL HOMOGENEITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATLASES AS TOPIC; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84855434935     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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