
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) conversion prediction, i.e., identifying MCI patients of high risks converting to Alzheimer's disease (AD), is essential for preventing or slowing the progression of AD. Although previous studies have shown that the fusion of multi-modal data can effectively improve the prediction accuracy, their applications are largely restricted by the limited availability or high cost of multi-modal data. Building an effective prediction model using only magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) remains a challenging research topic. In this work, we propose a multi-modal multi-instance distillation scheme, which aims to distill the knowledge learned from multi-modal data to an MRI-based network for MCI conversion prediction. In contrast to existing distillation algorithms, the proposed multi-instance probabilities demonstrate a superior capability of representing the complicated atrophy distributions, and can guide the MRI-based network to better explore the input MRI. To our best knowledge, this is the first study that attempts to improve an MRI-based prediction model by leveraging extra supervision distilled from multi-modal information. Experiments demonstrate the advantage of our framework, suggesting its potentials in the data-limited clinical settings.
Male, FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, Knowledge distillation, Magnetic resonance imaging, Alzheimer Disease, FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Humans, Learning, Cognitive Dysfunction, Aged, Probability, Aged, 80 and over, Image and Video Processing (eess.IV), Mild cognitive impairment, Brain, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing, Middle Aged, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Multi-instance learning, Knowledge, Female, Atrophy, Algorithms, RC321-571
Male, FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, Knowledge distillation, Magnetic resonance imaging, Alzheimer Disease, FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Humans, Learning, Cognitive Dysfunction, Aged, Probability, Aged, 80 and over, Image and Video Processing (eess.IV), Mild cognitive impairment, Brain, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing, Middle Aged, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Multi-instance learning, Knowledge, Female, Atrophy, Algorithms, RC321-571
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