Title
Functional Brain Connections Identify Sensorineural Hearing Loss and Predict the Outcome of Cochlear Implantation
Abstract
Identification of congenital sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and early intervention, especially by cochlear implantation (CI), are crucial for restoring hearing in patients. However, high accuracy diagnostics of SNHL and prognostic prediction of CI are lacking to date. To diagnose SNHL and predict the outcome of CI, we propose a method combining functional connections (FCs) measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and machine learning. A total of 68 children with SNHL and 34 healthy controls (HC) of matched age and gender were recruited to construct classification models for SNHL and HC. A total of 52 children with SNHL that underwent CI were selected to establish a predictive model of the outcome measured by the category of auditory performance (CAP), and their resting-state fMRI images were acquired. After the dimensional reduction of FCs by kernel principal component analysis, three machine learning methods including the support vector machine, logistic regression, and k-nearest neighbor and their voting were used as the classifiers. A multiple logistic regression method was performed to predict the CAP of CI. The classification model of voting achieves an area under the curve of 0.84, which is higher than that of three single classifiers. The multiple logistic regression model predicts CAP after CI in SNHL with an average accuracy of 82.7%. These models may improve the identification of SNHL through fMRI images and prognosis prediction of CI in SNHL.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3389/fncom.2022.825160
FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
sensorineural hearing loss, resting-state fMRI, functional brain network, cochlear implantation, machine learning, multiple logistic regression
Journal
16
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1662-5188
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qiyuan Song100.34
Shouliang Qi203.04
Chaoyang Jin300.34
Lei Yang400.34
Wei Qian543.19
Yi Yin600.34
Houyu Zhao700.34
Hui Yu800.34