Predict Disease Progression With Reaction Rate Equation Modeling of Multimodal MRI and PET.
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Publication Date
2018Journal Title
Front Aging Neurosci
ISSN
1663-4365
Publisher
Frontiers Media SA
Volume
10
Pages
306
Language
eng
Type
Article
Physical Medium
Electronic-eCollection
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Su, L., Huang, Y., Wang, Y., Rowe, J., & O'Brien, J. (2018). Predict Disease Progression With Reaction Rate Equation Modeling of Multimodal MRI and PET.. Front Aging Neurosci, 10 306. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2018.00306
Abstract
Neurodegenerative dementia often has multiple types of underlying pathology, for example, beta-amyloid, misfolded tau, chronic neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration may coexist in Alzheimer's disease. However, the relationship between them is often unclear, in other words, whether one pathology is upstream or downstream of others can be very difficult to investigate directly. This is partly because the underlying pathology in dementia may precede detectable symptoms by several years if not decades. The time scale associated with disease progression in dementia generally exceeds that in conventional longitudinal imaging studies in humans, so it is difficult to directly observe the temporal ordering of different pathologies. Also, animal studies are not always transferable to patients due to obvious differences between the two systems. To investigate the disease progression and relationships among underlying pathological changes, we propose a novel computational modeling approach for multimodal MRI and PET inspired by reaction rate equation in chemical kinetics. We also discuss the possibility and prerequisites to use cross-sectional data to generate preliminary hypothesis for future longitudinal studies. It has been shown that the rate of change in some biomarkers can be approximated by the average trajectory across patients at different stages of disease severity in cross-sectional studies. The relationship modeled in our approach is akin to that in the control theory, and can be assessed by demonstrating that the presence of one disease related biomarker predicts dynamics in another. We argue that the proposed framework has important implications for trials targeting different pathologies in dementia.
Sponsorship
The study was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre and Biomedical Research Unit in Dementia based at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Cambridge. We thank the support from Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK-SRF2017B-1). J.B.R. is supported by the Wellcome Trust (103838).
Funder references
Wellcome Trust (103838/Z/14/Z)
Medical Research Council (MR/M009041/1)
Medical Research Council (MC_U105597119)
Medical Research Council (MR/M024873/1)
Medical Research Council (MC_UU_00005/12)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2018.00306
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/286280
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