Topological Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Betti Curves

Rik Sarkar, Rayna Andreeva, Ameer Saadat-Yazdi

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Abstract

Alzheimer’s disease is a debilitating disease in the elderly, and is an increasing burden to the society due to an aging population. In this paper, we apply topological data analysis to structural MRI scans of the brain, and show that topological invariants make accurate predictors for Alzheimer’s. Using the construct of Betti Curves, we first show that topology is a good predictor of Age. Then we develop an approach to factor out the topological signature of age from Betti curves, and thus obtain accurate detection of Alzheimer’s disease. Experimental results show that topological features used with standard classifiers perform comparably to recently developed convolutional neural networks. These results imply that topology is a major aspect of structural changes due to aging and Alzheimer’s. We expect this relation will generate further insights for both early detection and better understanding of the disease.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIMIMIC 2021, TDA4MedicalData 2021: Interpretability of Machine Intelligence in Medical Image Computing, and Topological Data Analysis and Its Applications for Medical Data
PublisherSpringer
Pages119-128
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-87444-5
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-87443-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Sept 2021
Event1st International Workshop on Topological Data Analysis and its Applications for Medical Data - Strasbourg, France
Duration: 27 Sept 202127 Sept 2021
https://sites.google.com/view/tda-for-medical-data/home

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume12929
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Workshop

Workshop1st International Workshop on Topological Data Analysis and its Applications for Medical Data
Abbreviated titleTDA4MedicalData 2021
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityStrasbourg
Period27/09/2127/09/21
Internet address

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Topological data analysis
  • Alzheimer’s disease
  • MRI

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