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MVPA method study for distinguishing the cognitive level of healthy elderly people based on resting-state fMRI
WANG Fangyi  TANG Jieqing  LIU Qian  YU Chengxin  LI Bo  DING Fan 

Cite this article as: WANG F Y, TANG J Q, LIU Q, et al. MVPA method study for distinguishing the cognitive level of healthy elderly people based on resting-state fMRI[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2023, 14(6): 18-25. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.06.003.


[Abstract] Objective To construct brain network based on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data and establish multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) to effectively distinguish the cognitive level of healthy elderly people.Materials and Methods Using a publicly available dataset of 55 healthy elderly individuals with excellent cognitive abilities (cognitive excellent group) and 43 individuals with poor cognitive abilities (cognitive poor group), based on the resting-state fMRI data of all participants, an MVPA method was established to distinguish the cognitive level of healthy elderly people. Among them, Gaussian Copula mutual information (GCMI) was used for brain network construction and feature selection, and support vector machine (SVM) was used to complete classification. Then the existing MVPA method was used to distinguish the cognitive level of healthy elderly people as a comparison. Finally, the differences of consistency functional connection between the groups were analyzed through independent-samples t-test.Results The MVPA method established in this article effectively distinguishes the cognitive level of healthy elderly people, with a classification accuracy of 77.22%, the sensitivity, specificity and AUC were 81.82%, 72.09% and 0.77 respectively. In addition, the consistency functional connection strength of the cognitive poor group was significantly reduced compared to the cognitive excellent group, and the differences between groups were generally statistically significant (P＜0.05).Conclusions Using GCMI, which is sensitive to nonlinear, to construct brain networks and filter features, combined with SVM can effectively distinguish cognitive level of healthy elderly people. Through the analysis of consistency functional connection, we found that the weakening of its strength may lead to the reduction of cognitive level. The consistency functional connection differences with statistically significant has important value in assisting clinical diagnosis.
[Keywords] functional magnetic resonance imaging；healthy elderly people；cognitive level；classification；multivariate pattern analysis；brain network；Gaussian Copula mutual information

WANG Fangyi1, 2   TANG Jieqing1, 2   LIU Qian1, 2   YU Chengxin3   LI Bo3   DING Fan1, 2*  

1 Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vision Based Monitoring for Hydroelectric Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China

2 College of Computer and Information Technology, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China

3 Department of Radiology, the First College of Clinical Medical Science of China Three Gorges University and Yichang Central People's Hospital, Yichang 443003, China

Corresponding author: Ding F, E-mail: 415923500@qq.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Science and Technology Research Plan of Hubei Provincial Department of Education (No. Z2019096); Industry-University-Research Innovation Fund of Universities in China (No. 2019ITA03043).
Received  2022-12-23
Accepted  2023-06-07
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.06.003
Cite this article as: WANG F Y, TANG J Q, LIU Q, et al. MVPA method study for distinguishing the cognitive level of healthy elderly people based on resting-state fMRI[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2023, 14(6): 18-25. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.06.003.

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