<p>Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by impairments in memory, cognition, and behavior. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging is one of the valuable techniques for studying brain function in Alzheimer’s disease, providing insights into neural mechanisms and aiding early diagnosis. Conventional analytical approaches for such data, including dynamic functional connectivity and time series analysis, often explore the spatiotemporal relationships between brain regions. However, the short duration of real-world functional magnetic resonance imaging data often limits their ability to capture nonlinear features that are critical for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease detection. Here we show that a surrogate model based on reservoir computing and compressed sensing can be used to expand data through time series predictions and extract nonlinear dynamical characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease. Two indicators are further proposed based on the developed model, the maximum Lyapunov exponent and the phase locking values, indicating a reduced dynamical complexity in Alzheimer’s disease and the key Alzheimer’s disease-affected brain regions in the frontal and parietal lobes, respectively. The classification accuracy based on these indicators can reach as high as 87% across different datasets, with a mean accuracy of 73.1% &#xa0;± 10.9%. This framework improves the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging data and may support further theoretical investigations in neurodegenerative disease research.</p>

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Characterizing Alzheimer’s disease with reservoir computing

  • Qing Li,
  • Zijian Wang,
  • Yihe Zhang,
  • Zixiang Yan,
  • Jian Gao,
  • Xingang Wang,
  • Yong Liu,
  • Jinghua Xiao

摘要

Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by impairments in memory, cognition, and behavior. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging is one of the valuable techniques for studying brain function in Alzheimer’s disease, providing insights into neural mechanisms and aiding early diagnosis. Conventional analytical approaches for such data, including dynamic functional connectivity and time series analysis, often explore the spatiotemporal relationships between brain regions. However, the short duration of real-world functional magnetic resonance imaging data often limits their ability to capture nonlinear features that are critical for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease detection. Here we show that a surrogate model based on reservoir computing and compressed sensing can be used to expand data through time series predictions and extract nonlinear dynamical characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease. Two indicators are further proposed based on the developed model, the maximum Lyapunov exponent and the phase locking values, indicating a reduced dynamical complexity in Alzheimer’s disease and the key Alzheimer’s disease-affected brain regions in the frontal and parietal lobes, respectively. The classification accuracy based on these indicators can reach as high as 87% across different datasets, with a mean accuracy of 73.1%  ± 10.9%. This framework improves the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging data and may support further theoretical investigations in neurodegenerative disease research.