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This study introduces a novel event-based model for disease progression. The model describes disease progression as a series of events. An event can consist of a significant change in symptoms or in tissue. We construct a forward model that relates heterogeneous measurements from a whole cohort of patients and controls to the event sequence and fit the model with a Bayesian estimation framework. The model does not rely on a priori classification of patients and therefore has the potential to describe disease progression in much greater detail than previous approaches. We demonstrate our model on serial T1 MRI data from a familial Alzheimer’s disease cohort. We show progression of neuronal atrophy on a much finer level than previous studies, while confirming progression patterns from pathological studies, and integrate clinical events into the model.
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Fonteijn, H.M. et al. (2011). An Event-Based Disease Progression Model and Its Application to Familial Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Székely, G., Hahn, H.K. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. IPMI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6801. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22092-0_61
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