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Hum Brain Mapp. 2021 Oct 01;42(14):4658-4670. doi: 10.1002/hbm.25574. Epub 2021 Jul 29.

Improving the predictive potential of diffusion MRI in schizophrenia using normative models-Towards subject-level classification.

Human brain mapping

Doron Elad, Suheyla Cetin-Karayumak, Fan Zhang, Kang Ik K Cho, Amanda E Lyall, Johanna Seitz-Holland, Rami Ben-Ari, Godfrey D Pearlson, Carol A Tamminga, John A Sweeney, Brett A Clementz, David J Schretlen, Petra Verena Viher, Katharina Stegmayer, Sebastian Walther, Jungsun Lee, Tim J Crow, Anthony James, Aristotle N Voineskos, Robert W Buchanan, Philip R Szeszko, Anil K Malhotra, Matcheri S Keshavan, Martha E Shenton, Yogesh Rathi, Sylvain Bouix, Nir Sochen, Marek R Kubicki, Ofer Pasternak

Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematics, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  2. Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  3. Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  4. Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  5. Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
  6. IBM Research AI, Haifa, Israel.
  7. Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
  8. Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
  9. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
  10. Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Bio-Imaging Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
  11. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  12. Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
  13. Department of Psychiatry, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea.
  14. Department of Psychiatry, SANE POWIC, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  15. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
  16. Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  17. Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
  18. Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
  19. The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and Zucker Hillside Hospital, Manhasset, New York, USA.
  20. Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

PMID: 34322947 PMCID: PMC8410550 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25574

Abstract

Diffusion MRI studies consistently report group differences in white matter between individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia and healthy controls. Nevertheless, the abnormalities found at the group-level are often not observed at the individual level. Among the different approaches aiming to study white matter abnormalities at the subject level, normative modeling analysis takes a step towards subject-level predictions by identifying affected brain locations in individual subjects based on extreme deviations from a normative range. Here, we leveraged a large harmonized diffusion MRI dataset from 512 healthy controls and 601 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, to study whether normative modeling can improve subject-level predictions from a binary classifier. To this aim, individual deviations from a normative model of standard (fractional anisotropy) and advanced (free-water) dMRI measures, were calculated by means of age and sex-adjusted z-scores relative to control data, in 18 white matter regions. Even though larger effect sizes are found when testing for group differences in z-scores than are found with raw values (p < .001), predictions based on summary z-score measures achieved low predictive power (AUC < 0.63). Instead, we find that combining information from the different white matter tracts, while using multiple imaging measures simultaneously, improves prediction performance (the best predictor achieved AUC = 0.726). Our findings suggest that extreme deviations from a normative model are not optimal features for prediction. However, including the complete distribution of deviations across multiple imaging measures improves prediction, and could aid in subject-level classification.

© 2021 The Authors. Human Brain Mapping published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.

Keywords: diffusion magnetic resonance imaging; machine learning; precision medicine; schizophrenia; white matter

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