GFE-Mamba: Mamba-based AD Multi-modal Progression Assessment via Generative Feature Extraction from MCI
<|reference_start|>GFE-Mamba: Mamba-based AD Multi-modal Progression Assessment via Generative Feature Extraction from MCI: Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is an irreversible neurodegenerative disorder that often progresses from Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), leading to memory loss and significantly impacting patients' lives. Clinical trials indicate that early targeted interventions for MCI patients can potentially slow or halt the development and progression of AD. Previous research has shown that accurate medical classification requires the inclusion of extensive multimodal data, such as assessment scales and various neuroimaging techniques like Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET). However, consistently tracking the diagnosis of the same individual over time and simultaneously collecting multimodal data poses significant challenges. To address this issue, we introduce GFE-Mamba, a classifier based on Generative Feature Extraction (GFE). This classifier effectively integrates data from assessment scales, MRI, and PET, enabling deeper multimodal fusion. It efficiently extracts both long and short sequence information and incorporates additional information beyond the pixel space. This approach not only improves classification accuracy but also enhances the interpretability and stability of the model. We constructed datasets of over 3000 samples based on the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) for a two-step training process. Our experimental results demonstrate that the GFE-Mamba model is effective in predicting the conversion from MCI to AD and outperforms several state-of-the-art methods. Our source code and ADNI dataset processing code are available at https://github.com/Tinysqua/GFE-Mamba.<|reference_end|>
@article{fang2024gfe-mamba:,
    title={GFE-Mamba: Mamba-based AD Multi-modal Progression Assessment via
  Generative Feature Extraction from MCI},
    author={Zhaojie Fang, Shenghao Zhu, Yifei Chen, Binfeng Zou, Fan Jia, Linwei
  Qiu, Chang Liu, Yiyu Huang, Xiang Feng, Feiwei Qin, Changmiao Wang, Yeru
  Wang, Jin Fan, Changbiao Chu, Wan-Zhen Wu, Hu Zhao},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.15719},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.15719},
    primaryClass={cs.CV cs.AI}
}