In recent years, many papers have reported state-of-the-art performance on Alzheimer's Disease classification with MRI scans from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset using convolutional neural networks. However, we discover that when we split that data into training and testing sets at the subject level, we are not able to obtain similar performance, bringing the validity of many of the previous studies into question. Furthermore, we point out that previous works use different subsets of the ADNI data, making comparison across similar works tricky. In this study, we present the results of three splitting methods, discuss the motivations behind their validity, and report our results using all of the available subjects.
More recently, @cite_3 trained a 3D DensetNet with ensemble voting on the ADNI dataset to achieve the state-of-the-art accuracy on three-class classification. They split by patients but treated MRIs of the same patient that are over three years apart as different patients, giving away some information from the training to testing process.
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We present an adversarial domain adaptation based deep learning approach for automatic tumor segmentation from T2-weighted MRI. Our approach is composed of two steps: (i) a tumor-aware unsupervised cross-domain adaptation (CT to MRI), followed by (ii) semi-supervised tumor segmentation using Unet trained with synthesized and limited number of original MRIs. We introduced a novel target specific loss, called tumor-aware loss, for unsupervised cross-domain adaptation that helps to preserve tumors on synthesized MRIs produced from CT images. In comparison, state-of-the art adversarial networks trained without our tumor-aware loss produced MRIs with ill-preserved or missing tumors. All networks were trained using labeled CT images from 377 patients with non-small cell lung cancer obtained from the Cancer Imaging Archive and unlabeled T2w MRIs from a completely unrelated cohort of 6 patients with pre-treatment and 36 on-treatment scans. Next, we combined 6 labeled pre-treatment MRI scans with the synthesized MRIs to boost tumor segmentation accuracy through semi-supervised learning. Semi-supervised training of cycle-GAN produced a segmentation accuracy of 0.66 computed using Dice Score Coefficient (DSC). Our method trained with only synthesized MRIs produced an accuracy of 0.74 while the same method trained in semi-supervised setting produced the best accuracy of 0.80 on test. Our results show that tumor-aware adversarial domain adaptation helps to achieve reasonably accurate cancer segmentation from limited MRI data by leveraging large CT datasets. Automatic extraction of features from MRI brain scans and diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) remain a challenging task. In this paper, we propose an efficient and simple three-dimensional convolutional network (3D ConvNet) architecture that is able to achieve high performance for detection of AD on a relatively large dataset. The proposed 3D ConvNet consists of five convolutional layers for feature extraction, followed by three fully-connected layers for AD NC classification. The main contributions of the paper include: (a) propose a novel and effective 3D ConvNet architecture; (b) study the impact of hyper-parameter selection on the performance of AD classification; (c) study the impact of pre-processing; (d) study the impact of data partitioning; (e) study the impact of dataset size. Experiments conducted on an ADNI dataset containing 340 subjects and 1198 MRI brain scans have resulted good performance (with the test accuracy of 98.74 , 100 AD detection rate and 2,4 false alarm). Comparisons with 7 existing state-of-the-art methods have provided strong support to the robustness of the proposed method. Automatic diagnosis of Alzheimers disease (AD) and mild cognition impairment (MCI) from 3D brain magnetic resonance (MR) images plays an important role in early treatment of dementia disease. Deep learning architectures can extract potential features of dementia disease and capture brain anatomical changes from MRI scans. This paper proposes an ensemble of 3D densely connected convolutional networks (3D-DenseNets) for AD and MCI diagnosis. First, dense connections were introduced to maximize the information flow, where each layer connects with all subsequent layers directly. Then weighted-based fusion method was employed to combine 3D-DenseNets with different architectures. Extensive experiments were conducted to analyze the performance of 3D-DenseNet with different hyper-parameters and architectures. Superior performance of the proposed model was demonstrated on ADNI dataset including 833 subjects. MRI has evolved into an important diagnostic technique in medical imaging. However, reliability of the derived diagnosis can be degraded by artifacts, which challenge both radiologists and automatic computer-aided diagnosis. This paper proposes a fully automatic method for measuring image quality of 3D structural MRI. Quality measures are derived by analyzing the air background of magnitude images and are capable of detecting image degradation from several sources, including bulk motion, residual magnetization from incomplete spoiling, blurring, ghosting, etc. The method has been validated on 749 3D T1-weighted 1.5 T and 3 T head scans acquired at 36 Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) study sites operating with various software and hardware combinations. Results are compared against qualitative grades assigned by the ADNI quality control center (taken as the reference standard). The derived quality indices are independent of the MRI system used and agree with the reference standard quality ratings with high sensitivity and specificity (>85 ). The proposed procedures for quality assessment could be of great value for both research and routine clinical imaging. It could greatly improve workflow through its ability to rule-out the need for a repeat scan while the patient is still in the magnet bore.