Title
Imaging biomarkers for the diagnosis of Prion disease.
Abstract
Prion diseases are a group of progressive neurodegenerative conditions which cause cognitive impairment and neurological deficits. To date, there is no accurate measure that can be used to diagnose this illness, or to quantify the evolution of symptoms over time. Prion disease, due to its rarity, is in fact commonly mistaken for other types of dementia. A robust tool to diagnose and quantify the progression of the disease is key as it would lead to more appropriately timed clinical trials, and thereby improve patients' quality of life. The approaches used to study other types of neurodegenerative diseases are not satisfactory to capture the progression of human form of Prion disease. This is due to the large heterogeneity of phenotypes of Prion disease and to the lack of consistent geometrical pattern of disease progression. In this paper, we aim to identify and select imaging biomarkers that are relevant for the diagnostic on Prion disease. We extract features from magnetic resonance imaging data and use genetic and demographic information from a cohort affected by genetic forms of the disease. The proposed framework consists of a multi-modal subject specific feature extraction step, followed by a Gaussian Process classifier used to calculate the probability of a subject to be diagnosed with Prion disease. We show that the proposed method improves the characterisation of Prion disease.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1117/12.2293676
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Prion diseases,Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,Imaging biomarkers,Diagnosis,Prognosis
Conference
10574
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0277-786X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liane S. Canas100.68
Benjamin C. Yvernault200.68
Sudre Carole H.313212.86
Enrico De Vita4193.68
Cardoso M. Jorge56413.70
John S. Thornton6415.18
frederik barkhof719923.19
Sébastien Ourselin82499237.61
Simon Mead941.46
Marc Modat1089872.33