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Penalized logistic regression using functional connectivity as covariates with an application to mild cognitive impairment

  • Jung, Jae-Hwan (Department of Information and Statistics, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Ji, Seong-Jin (Department of Information and Statistics, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Zhu, Hongtu (Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) ;
  • Ibrahim, Joseph G. (Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) ;
  • Fan, Yong (Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania) ;
  • Lee, Eunjee (Department of Information and Statistics, Chungnam National University)
  • Received : 2020.07.15
  • Accepted : 2020.10.17
  • Published : 2020.11.30
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Abstract

There is an emerging interest in brain functional connectivity (FC) based on functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Alzheimer's disease (AD) studies. The complex and high-dimensional structure of FC makes it challenging to explore the association between altered connectivity and AD susceptibility. We develop a pipeline to refine FC as proper covariates in a penalized logistic regression model and classify normal and AD susceptible groups. Three different quantification methods are proposed for FC refinement. One of the methods is dimension reduction based on common component analysis (CCA), which is employed to address the limitations of the other methods. We applied the proposed pipeline to the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) data and deduced pathogenic FC biomarkers associated with AD susceptibility. The refined FC biomarkers were related to brain regions for cognition, stimuli processing, and sensorimotor skills. We also demonstrated that a model using CCA performed better than others in terms of classification performance and goodness-of-fit.

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