Publications

Authors:

Squarcina, Letizia; Castellani, Umberto; Bellani, Marcella; Perlini, Cinzia; Lasalvia, Antonio; Dusi, Nicola; Bonetto, Chiara; Cristofalo, Doriana; Tosato, Sarah; Rambaldelli, Gianluca; Alessandrini, Franco; Zoccatelli, Giada; POZZI MUCELLI, Roberto; Lamonaca, Dario; Ceccato, Enrico; Pileggi, Francesca; Mazzi, Fausto; Santonastaso, Paolo; Ruggeri, Mirella; Brambilla, Paolo

Title:

Classification of first-episode psychosis in a large cohort of patients using support vector machine and multiple kernel learning techniques

Year:

2017

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

Neuroimage

ISSN of journal:

1053-8119

N° Volume:

145

Number or Folder:

(Pt B)

:

Elsevier

Page numbers:

238-245

Keyword:

affective psychosis; cortical thickness; frontal; MRI; schizophrenia; temporal cortex

Short description of contents:

First episode psychosis (FEP) patients are of particular interest for neuroimaging investigations because of the absence of confounding effects due to medications and chronicity. Nonetheless, imaging data are prone to heterogeneity because for example of age, gender or parameter setting differences. With this work, we wanted to take into account possible nuisance effects of age and gender differences across dataset, not correcting the data as a pre-processing step, but including the effect of nuisance covariates in the classification phase. To this aim, we developed a method which, based on multiple kernel learning (MKL), exploits the effect of these confounding variables with a subject-depending kernel weighting procedure. We applied this method to a dataset of cortical thickness obtained from structural magnetic resonance images (MRI) of 127 FEP patients and 127 healthy controls, who underwent either a 3Tesla (T) or a 1.5T MRI acquisition. We obtained good accuracies, notably better than those obtained with standard SVM or MKL methods, up to more than 80% for frontal and temporal areas. To our best knowledge, this is the largest classification study in FEP population, showing that fronto-temporal cortical thickness can be used as a potential marker to classify patients with psychosis.

Web page:

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.12.007

Product ID:

90543

Handle IRIS:

11562/935100

Last Modified:

November 11, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Squarcina, Letizia; Castellani, Umberto; Bellani, Marcella; Perlini, Cinzia; Lasalvia, Antonio; Dusi, Nicola; Bonetto, Chiara; Cristofalo, Doriana; Tosato, Sarah; Rambaldelli, Gianluca; Alessandrini, Franco; Zoccatelli, Giada; POZZI MUCELLI, Roberto; Lamonaca, Dario; Ceccato, Enrico; Pileggi, Francesca; Mazzi, Fausto; Santonastaso, Paolo; Ruggeri, Mirella; Brambilla, Paolo, Classification of first-episode psychosis in a large cohort of patients using support vector machine and multiple kernel learning techniques «Neuroimage» , vol. 145 , n. (Pt B) , 2017 , pp. 238-245

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