A Practical Multiclass Classification Network for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease
Rizwan Khan; Zahid Hussain Qaisar; Atif Mehmood; Ghulam Ali; Tamim Alkhalifah; Fahad Alturise; Lingna Wang
Patients who have Alzheimer&rsquo:s disease (AD) pass through several irreversible stages, which ultimately result in the patient&rsquo:s death. It is crucial to understand and detect AD at an early stage to slow down its progression due to the non-curable nature of the disease. Diagnostic techniques are primarily based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and expensive high-dimensional 3D imaging data. Classic methods can hardly discriminate among the almost similar pixels of the brain patterns of various age groups. The recent deep learning-based methods can contribute to the detection of the various stages of AD but require large-scale datasets and face several challenges while using the 3D volumes directly. The extant deep learning-based work is mainly focused on binary classification, but it is challenging to detect multiple stages with these methods. In this work, we propose a deep learning-based multiclass classification method to distinguish amongst various stages for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer&rsquo:s. The proposed method significantly handles data shortage challenges by augmentation and manages to classify the 2D images obtained after the efficient pre-processing of the publicly available Alzheimer&rsquo:s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset. Our method achieves an accuracy of 98.9% with an F1 score of 96.3. Extensive experiments are performed, and overall results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of overall performance.
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