Deep learning shows no morphological abnormalities in neutrophils in Alzheimer's disease

Autor: Floris Chabrun, Xavier Dieu, Nicolas Doudeau, Jennifer Gautier, Damien Luque‐Paz, Franck Geneviève, Marc Ferré, Delphine Mirebeau‐Prunier, Cédric Annweiler, Pascal Reynier
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp n/a-n/a (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2352-8729
DOI: 10.1002/dad2.12146
Popis: Abstract Introduction Several studies have provided evidence of the key role of neutrophils in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Yet, no study to date has investigated the potential link between AD and morphologically abnormal neutrophils on blood smears. Methods Due to the complexity and subjectivity of the task by human analysis, deep learning models were trained to predict AD from neutrophil images. Control models were trained for a known feasible task (leukocyte subtype classification) and for detecting potential biases of overfitting (patient prediction). Results Deep learning models achieved state‐of‐the‐art results for leukocyte subtype classification but could not accurately predict AD. Discussion We found no evidence of morphological abnormalities of neutrophils in AD. Our results show that a solid deep learning pipeline with positive and bias control models with visualization techniques are helpful to support deep learning model results.
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