Classifying Dementia Using Local Binary Patterns from Different Regions in Magnetic Resonance Images
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Oppedal, K., Eftestøl, T., Engan, K., Beyer, M. K., & Aarsland, D. (2015). Classifying dementia using local binary patterns from different regions in magnetic resonance images. Journal of Biomedical Imaging, 2015, 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/572567Sammendrag
Dementia is an evolving challenge in society, and no disease-modifying treatment exists. Diagnosis can be demanding and MR
imaging may aid as a noninvasive method to increase prediction accuracy. We explored the use of 2D local binary pattern (LBP)
extracted from FLAIR and T1 MR images of the brain combined with a Random Forest classifier in an attempt to discern patients
with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Lewy body dementia (LBD), and normal controls (NC). Analysis was conducted in areas with white
matter lesions (WML) and all of white matter (WM). Results from 10-fold nested cross validation are reported as mean accuracy,
precision, and recall with standard deviation in brackets.The best result we achieved was in the two-class problem NC versus AD +
LBD with total accuracy of 0.98 (0.04). In the three-class problem AD versus LBD versus NC and the two-class problem AD versus
LBD, we achieved 0.87 (0.08) and 0.74 (0.16), respectively. The performance using 3DT1 images was notably better than when using
FLAIR images.Theresults fromtheWMregion gave similar results as in theWMLregion.Our study demonstrates that LBP texture
analysis in brain MR images can be successfully used for computer based dementia diagnosis.