Ensemble Transfer Learning for Distinguishing Cognitively Normal and Mild Cognitive Impairment Patients Using MRI

Pratham Grover, Kunal Chaturvedi, Xing Zi, Amit Saxena, Shiv Prakash, Tony Jan, Mukesh Prasad

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Abstract

Alzheimer’s disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that causes brain cells to degenerate, resulting in decreased physical and mental abilities and, in severe cases, permanent memory loss. It is considered as the most common and fatal form of dementia. Although mild cognitive impairment (MCI) precedes Alzheimer’s disease (AD), it does not necessarily show the obvious symptoms of AD. As a result, it becomes challenging to distinguish between mild cognitive impairment and cognitively normal. In this paper, we propose an ensemble of deep learners based on convolutional neural networks for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. The proposed approach utilises simple averaging ensemble and weighted averaging ensemble methods. The ensemble-based transfer learning model demonstrates enhanced generalization and performance for AD diagnosis compared to traditional transfer learning methods. Extensive experiments on the OASIS-3 dataset validate the effectiveness of the proposed model, showcasing its superiority over state-of-the-art transfer learning approaches in terms of accuracy, robustness, and efficiency.
Original languageEnglish
JournalAlgorithms
Volume16
Issue number8
Publication statusPublished - 6 Aug 2023

Keywords

  • Alzheimer’s disease
  • ensemble learning
  • classification
  • convolutional neural network
  • mild cognitive impairment

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