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Milton Camacho

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Proceedings Article | 7 April 2023 Poster + Paper

An analysis of intensity harmonization techniques for Parkinson’s multi-site MRI datasets

Raissa Souza, Emma A. Stanley, Milton Camacho, Matthias Wilms, Nils Forkert

Proceedings Volume 12465, 124652B (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2653948

KEYWORDS: Data modeling, Histograms, Performance modeling, Magnetic resonance imaging, Education and training, Parkinson disease, Neuroimaging, Machine learning, Solid modeling, Scanners

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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease affecting 2-3% of the population over 65 years of age. Considerable research has investigated the benefit of using neuroimaging to improve PD diagnosis. However, it is challenging for medical experts to manually identify the subtle differences associated with PD in such complex data. It has been shown that machine learning models can achieve human-like accuracies for many computer-aided diagnosis applications. However, model performance usually depends on the amount and diversity of training data available, whereas most Parkinson’s disease classification models were trained on rather small datasets. Training data size and diversity can be increased by curating multi-site datasets. However, this may also increase biological and non-biological variances due to differences in participant cohorts, scanners, and data acquisition protocols. Thus, data harmonization is important to reduce those variances and enable the models to focus primarily on the patterns associated with PD. This work compares intensity harmonization techniques on 1796 MRI scans from twelve studies. Our results show that a histogram matching approach does not improve classification accuracy (78%) compared to the model trained on unharmonized data (baseline). However, it reduces the disparity between sensitivity and specificity from 81% and 73% to 77% and 79%, respectively. Moreover, combining histogram matching and least squares mean tissue intensity harmonization methods outperform the baseline model (accuracy of 74% compared to 67%) for an independent test set. Finally, our analysis considering sex (male, female) and groups (PD, healthy) shows that models trained on harmonized data exhibited reduced performance disparities between groups, which may be interpreted as a form of bias mitigation.

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