The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of 19 subjects who received a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) as well as of 5 pathological controls was collected and analyzed by Raman spectroscopy (RS). We investigated whether the raw and preprocessed Raman spectra could be used to distinguish AD from controls. First, we applied standard Machine Learning (ML) methods obtaining unsatis- factory results. Then, we applied ML to a set of topological descriptors extracted from raw spectra, achieving a very good classification accuracy (>87%). Although our results are preliminary, they indicate that RS and topological analysis may provide an effective combination to confirm or disprove a clinical diagnosis of AD. The next steps include enlarging the dataset of CSF samples to validate the proposed method better and, possibly, to investigate whether topological data analysis could support the characterization of AD subtypes.

Alzheimer Disease detection from Raman spectroscopy of the cerebrospinal fluid via topological machine learning / Francesco Conti, Martina Banchelli, Valentina Bessi, Cristina Cecchi, Fabrizio Chiti, Sara Colantonio, Cristiano D’Andrea, Marella de Angelis, Davide Moroni, Benedetta Nacmias, Maria Antonietta Pascali, Sandro Sorbi, Paolo Matteini. - In: ENGINEERING PROCEEDINGS. - ISSN 2673-4591. - ELETTRONICO. - 51:(2023), pp. 14.1-14.5. [10.3390/engproc2023051014]

Alzheimer Disease detection from Raman spectroscopy of the cerebrospinal fluid via topological machine learning

Francesco Conti;Martina Banchelli;Valentina Bessi;Cristina Cecchi
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Fabrizio Chiti
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Sara Colantonio;Marella de Angelis;Benedetta Nacmias;Sandro Sorbi;Paolo Matteini
2023

Abstract

The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of 19 subjects who received a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) as well as of 5 pathological controls was collected and analyzed by Raman spectroscopy (RS). We investigated whether the raw and preprocessed Raman spectra could be used to distinguish AD from controls. First, we applied standard Machine Learning (ML) methods obtaining unsatis- factory results. Then, we applied ML to a set of topological descriptors extracted from raw spectra, achieving a very good classification accuracy (>87%). Although our results are preliminary, they indicate that RS and topological analysis may provide an effective combination to confirm or disprove a clinical diagnosis of AD. The next steps include enlarging the dataset of CSF samples to validate the proposed method better and, possibly, to investigate whether topological data analysis could support the characterization of AD subtypes.
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