Title
Deep Learning for Cerebellar Ataxia Classification and Functional Score Regression.
Abstract
Cerebellar ataxia is a progressive neuro-degenerative disease that has multiple genetic versions, each with a characteristic pattern of anatomical degeneration that yields distinctive motor and cognitive problems. Studying this pattern of degeneration can help with the diagnosis of disease subtypes, evaluation of disease stage, and treatment planning. In this work, we propose a learning framework using MR image data for discriminating a set of cerebellar ataxia types and predicting a disease related functional score. We address the difficulty in analyzing high-dimensional image data with limited training subjects by: 1) training weak classifiers/regressors on a set of image subdomains separately, and combining the weak classifier/regressor outputs to make the decision; 2) perturbing the image subdomain to increase the training samples; 3) using a deep learning technique called the stacked auto-encoder to develop highly representative feature vectors of the input data. Experiments show that our approach can reliably classify between one of four categories (healthy control and three types of ataxia), and predict the functional staging score for ataxia.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-10581-9_9
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
biomedical research,bioinformatics
Ataxia,Feature vector,Text mining,Pattern recognition,Regression,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Classifier (linguistics),Cognitive problems,Cerebellar ataxia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8679
0302-9743
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
4
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhen Yang182.53
Shenghua Zhong240.46
Aaron Carass338343.15
Sarah H Ying481.86
Jerry L. Prince54990488.42