A practical computerized decision support system for predicting the severity of Alzheimer's disease of an individual (original) (raw)

Computerized clinical decision support systems can help to provide objective, standardized, and timely dementia diagnosis. However, current computerized systems are mainly based on the group analysis, discrete classification of disease stages, or expensive and not readily accessible biomarkers, while current clinical practice relies relatively heavily on cognitive and functional assessments (CFA). In this study, we developed a computational framework using a suite of machine learning tools for identifying key markers in predicting the severity of Alzheimer's disease (AD) from a large set of biological and clinical measures. Six machine learning approaches, namely Kernel Ridge Regression (KRR), Support Vector Regression (SVR), and k-Nearest Neighbor (kNNreg) for regression and Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), and k-Nearest Neighbor (kNNclass) for classification, were used for the development of predictive models. We demonstrated high predictive power of CFA. Pred...

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