Acupuncture and Tuina School, The 3rd Teaching Hospital, Acupuncture and Brain Science Research Center, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan 610075, China.
Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province for Acupuncture and Chronobiology, Chengdu, Sichuan 610075, China.
Cereb Cortex. 2022 Jul 21;32(15):3347-3358. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhab419.
The diagnosis of functional dyspepsia (FD) presently relies on the self-reported symptoms. This study aimed to determine the potential of functional brain network features as biomarkers for the identification of FD patients. Firstly, the functional brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging data were collected from 100 FD patients and 100 healthy subjects, and the functional brain network features were extracted by the independent component analysis. Then, a support vector machine classifier was established based on these functional brain network features to discriminate FD patients from healthy subjects. Features that contributed substantially to the classification were finally identified as the classifying features. The results demonstrated that the classifier performed pretty well in discriminating FD patients. Namely, the accuracy of classification was 0.84 ± 0.03 in cross-validation set and 0.80 ± 0.07 in independent test set, respectively. A total of 15 connections between the subcortical nucleus (the thalamus and caudate) and sensorimotor cortex, parahippocampus, orbitofrontal cortex were finally determined as the classifying features. Furthermore, the results of cross-brain atlas validation showed that these classifying features were quite robust in the identification of FD patients. In summary, the current findings suggested the potential of using machine learning method and functional brain network biomarkers to identify FD patients.
功能性消化不良(FD)的诊断目前依赖于自我报告的症状。本研究旨在确定功能性脑网络特征作为识别 FD 患者的生物标志物的潜力。首先,从 100 名 FD 患者和 100 名健康受试者中采集功能性磁共振成像数据,并通过独立成分分析提取功能性脑网络特征。然后,基于这些功能性脑网络特征建立支持向量机分类器,以区分 FD 患者和健康受试者。最后确定对分类有重要贡献的特征作为分类特征。结果表明,分类器在区分 FD 患者方面表现良好。即,在交叉验证集中的分类准确率为 0.84±0.03,在独立测试集中的分类准确率为 0.80±0.07。最终确定了 15 条连接皮质下核(丘脑和尾状核)和感觉运动皮层、海马旁回、眶额皮层的连接作为分类特征。此外,跨脑图谱验证的结果表明,这些分类特征在识别 FD 患者方面非常稳健。总之,目前的研究结果表明,使用机器学习方法和功能性脑网络生物标志物来识别 FD 患者具有潜力。
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