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Machine Learning Profiling of Alzheimer's Disease Patients Based on Current Cerebrospinal Fluid Markers and Iron Content in Biofluids
- Source :
- Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Vol 13 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, characterized by a complex etiology that makes therapeutic strategies still not effective. A true understanding of key pathological mechanisms and new biomarkers are needed, to identify alternative disease-modifying therapies counteracting the disease progression. Iron is an essential element for brain metabolism and its imbalance is implicated in neurodegeneration, due to its potential neurotoxic effect. However, the role of iron in different stages of dementia is not clearly established. This study aimed to investigate the potential impact of iron both in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and in serum to improve early diagnosis and the related therapeutic possibility. In addition to standard clinical method to detect iron in serum, a precise quantification of total iron in CSF was performed using graphite-furnace atomic absorption spectrometry in patients affected by AD, mild cognitive impairment, frontotemporal dementia, and non-demented neurological controls. The application of machine learning techniques, such as clustering analysis and multiclassification algorithms, showed a new potential stratification of patients exploiting iron-related data. The results support the involvement of iron dysregulation and its potential interaction with biomarkers (Tau protein and Amyloid-beta) in the pathophysiology and progression of dementia.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Aging
biomarker (BM)
Cognitive Neuroscience
Tau protein
Disease
Alzheimer's disease
cerebrospinal fluid
iron
mild cognitive impairment
Machine learning
computer.software_genre
lcsh:RC321-571
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Cerebrospinal fluid
Medicine
Dementia
lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Pathological
Original Research
biology
business.industry
Neurodegeneration
medicine.disease
030104 developmental biology
Etiology
biology.protein
Artificial intelligence
business
computer
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Frontotemporal dementia
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16634365
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in aging neuroscience
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....67aa8c1515de307047b07b6260989360