Explainable Machine Learning Models for Alzheimer's Diagnosis Using Routine and Low-Cost Clinical Data
De Carli, D.; Sudati, A.; Dercole, F.
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Emerging as a significant global health challenge, Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that causes memory loss and cognitive decline. Despite the ever-increasing waiting time for a specialist diagnosis, the need for a cost-effective and fast diagnostic technique is evident. This study explores the development of an explainable deep learning model to diagnose AD using only routine and low-cost clinical data, including demographic information, patient history, and results of neuropsychological tests (limited to those that can be automatically acquired). The analysis was carried out using a dataset provided by the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center, comprising 167,364 observations and 1,024 features. The findings demonstrate diagnostic performance comparable, and slightly superior, to that of clinicians when evaluated under similar informative constraints. This study introduces two classification models to discriminate whether the presumptive etiological cause of cognitive impairment is Alzheimer's disease. The deep neural network achieved an accuracy of 90\% with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC-AUC) of 0.96, whereas the Light Gradient Boosting Machine reached the same accuracy with a ROC-AUC of 0.97.
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