@inproceedings{97e9dbaf013440e6b627fe3690d2d92d,
title = "Retinal biomarker discovery for dementia in an elderly diabetic population",
abstract = "Dementia is a devastating disease, and has severe implications on affected individuals, their family and wider society. A growing body of literature is studying the association of retinal microvasculature measurement with dementia. We present a pilot study testing the strength of groups of conventional (semantic) and texture-based (non-semantic) measurements extracted from retinal fundus camera images to classify patients with and without dementia. We performed a 500-trial bootstrap analysis with regularized logistic regression on a cohort of 1,742 elderly diabetic individuals (median age 72.2). Age was the strongest predictor for this elderly cohort. Semantic retinal measurements featured in up to 81\% of the bootstrap trials, with arterial caliber and optic disk size chosen most often, suggesting that they do complement age when selected together in a classifier. Textural features were able to train classifiers that match the performance of age, suggesting they are potentially a rich source of information for dementia outcome classification.",
keywords = "Biomarkers, Classification, Dementia, Microvasculature, Retina",
author = "Fetit, \{Ahmed E.\} and Siyamalan Manivannan and Sarah McGrory and Lucia Ballerini and Alexander Doney and MacGillivray, \{Thomas J.\} and Deary, \{Ian J.\} and Wardlaw, \{Joanna M.\} and Fergus Doubal and McKay, \{Gareth J.\} and McKenna, \{Stephen J.\} and Emanuele Trucco",
year = "2017",
month = sep,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-67561-9\_17",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319675602",
volume = "10554 LNCS",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "150--158",
booktitle = "Fetal, Infant and Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis - International Workshop, FIFI 2017 and 4th International Workshop, OMIA 2017 Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2017, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
note = "International Workshop on Fetal and Infant Image Analysis, FIFI 2017 and 4th International Workshop on Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis, OMIA 2017 held in Conjunction with 20th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2017 ; Conference date: 14-09-2017 Through 14-09-2017",
}