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Personalized Gaussian Processes for Forecasting of Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognition Sub-Scale (ADAS-Cog13)

Machine Learning 2018-05-07 v4 Applications

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the use of a personalized Gaussian Process model (pGP) to predict per-patient changes in ADAS-Cog13 -- a significant predictor of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in the cognitive domain -- using data from each patient's previous visits, and testing on future (held-out) data. We start by learning a population-level model using multi-modal data from previously seen patients using a base Gaussian Process (GP) regression. The personalized GP (pGP) is formed by adapting the base GP sequentially over time to a new (target) patient using domain adaptive GPs. We extend this personalized approach to predict the values of ADAS-Cog13 over the future 6, 12, 18, and 24 months. We compare this approach to a GP model trained only on past data of the target patients (tGP), as well as to a new approach that combines pGP with tGP. We find that the new approach, combining pGP with tGP, leads to large improvements in accurately forecasting future ADAS-Cog13 scores.

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@article{arxiv.1802.08561,
  title  = {Personalized Gaussian Processes for Forecasting of Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognition Sub-Scale (ADAS-Cog13)},
  author = {Yuria Utsumi and Ognjen Rudovic and Kelly Peterson and Ricardo Guerrero and Rosalind W. Picard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.08561},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) 2018 - accepted. 5 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1712.00181