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Prediction of neuropathologic lesions from clinical data. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association Phongpreecha, T., Cholerton, B., Bhukari, S., Chang, A. L., De Francesco, D., Thuraiappah, M., Godrich, D., Perna, A., Becker, M. G., Ravindra, N. G., Espinosa, C., Kim, Y., Berson, E., Mataraso, S., Sha, S. J., Fox, E. J., Montine, K. S., Baker, L. D., Craft, S., White, L., Poston, K. L., Beecham, G., Aghaeepour, N., Montine, T. J. 2023

Abstract

Post-mortem analysis provides definitive diagnoses of neurodegenerative diseases; however, only a few can be diagnosed during life.This study employed statistical tools and machine learning to predict 17 neuropathologic lesions from a cohort of 6518 individuals using 381 clinical features (Table S1). The multisite data allowed validation of the model's robustness by splitting train/test sets by clinical sites. A similar study was performed for predicting Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathologic change without specific comorbidities.Prediction results show high performance for certain lesions that match or exceed that of research annotation. Neurodegenerative comorbidities in addition to AD neuropathologic change resulted in compounded, but disproportionate, effects across cognitive domains as the comorbidity number increased.Certain clinical features could be strongly associated with multiple neurodegenerative diseases, others were lesion-specific, and some were divergent between lesions. Our approach could benefit clinical research, and genetic and biomarker research by enriching cohorts for desired lesions.

View details for DOI 10.1002/alz.12921

View details for PubMedID 36681388