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Functional and structural MRI based obsessive-compulsive disorder diagnosis using machine learning methods

Authors :
Fang-Fang Huang
Xiang-Yun Yang
Jia Luo
Xiao-Jie Yang
Fan-Qiang Meng
Peng-Chong Wang
Zhan-Jiang Li
Source :
BMC Psychiatry, Vol 23, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2023)
Publication Year :
2023
Publisher :
BMC, 2023.

Abstract

Abstract Background The success of neuroimaging in revealing neural correlates of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has raised hopes of using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) indices to discriminate patients with OCD and the healthy. The aim of this study was to explore MRI based OCD diagnosis using machine learning methods. Methods Fifty patients with OCD and fifty healthy subjects were allocated into training and testing set by eight to two. Functional MRI (fMRI) indices, including amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF), fractional ALFF (fALFF), regional homogeneity (ReHo), degree of centrality (DC), and structural MRI (sMRI) indices, including volume of gray matter, cortical thickness and sulcal depth, were extracted in each brain region as features. The features were reduced using least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression on training set. Diagnosis models based on single MRI index / combined MRI indices were established on training set using support vector machine (SVM), logistic regression and random forest, and validated on testing set. Results SVM model based on combined fMRI indices, including ALFF, fALFF, ReHo and DC, achieved the optimal performance, with a cross-validation accuracy of 94%; on testing set, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.90 and the validation accuracy was 85%. The selected features were located both within and outside the cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical (CSTC) circuit of OCD. Models based on single MRI index / combined fMRI and sMRI indices underperformed on the classification, with a largest validation accuracy of 75% from SVM model of ALFF on testing set. Conclusion SVM model of combined fMRI indices has the greatest potential to discriminate patients with OCD and the healthy, suggesting a complementary effect of fMRI indices on the classification; the features were located within and outside the CSTC circuit, indicating an importance of including various brain regions in the model.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1471244X
Volume :
23
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
BMC Psychiatry
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.5f632755c2784f0babbaf7a7d6e09888
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-05299-2