Can detection and prediction models for Alzheimer’s Disease be applied to Prodromal Parkinson’s Disease using explainable artificial intelligence? A brief report on Digital Neuro Signatures.

List of Authors

  1. Ioannis Tarnanas ,  
  2. Panagiotis Vlamos
    ,  
  3. Dr Robbert Harms
    ,  
  4. The RADAR-AD Consortium
Article Authors & roles Authors Peer review record Peer review Metrics
Cite

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the fastest growing neurodegeneration and has a prediagnostic phase with a lot of challenges to identify clinical and laboratory biomarkers for those in the earliest stages or those 'at risk'. Despite the current research effort, further progress in this field hinges on the more effective application of digital biomarker and artificial intelligence applications at the prediagnostic stages of PD. It is of the highest importance to stratify such prediagnostic subjects that seem to have the most neuroprotective benefit from drugs. However, current initiatives to identify individuals at risk or in the earliest stages that might be candidates for future clinical trials are still challenging due to the limited accuracy and explainability of existing prediagnostic detection and progression prediction solutions. In this brief paper, we report on a novel digital neuro signature (DNS) for prodromal-PD based on selected digital biomarkers previously discovered on preclinical Alzheimer's disease. (AD). Our preliminary results demonstrated a standard DNS signature for both preclinical AD and prodromal PD, containing a ranked selection of features. This novel DNS signature was rapidly repurposed out of 793 digital biomarker features and selected the top 20 digital biomarkers that are predictive and could detect both the biological signature of preclinical AD and the biological mechanism of a-synucleinopathy in prodromal PD. The resulting model can provide physicians with a pool of patients potentially eligible for therapy and comes along with information about the importance of the digital biomarkers that are predictive, based on SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP). Similar initiatives could clarify the stage before and around diagnosis, enabling the field to push into unchartered territory at the earliest stages of the disease.

Corresponding author
Ioannis Tarnanas
0000-0003-4069-6551
Grant information

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreement No 806999.

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Copyright
© 2022 Ioannis Tarnanas (Corresponding Author, Co-Author); Panagiotis Vlamos (Co-Author); Dr Robbert Harms (Co-Author); The RADAR-AD Consortium (Co-Author) Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

First version published
Latest version published
Revised

Amendment

This version was created to include the addition of the author Dr. Robbert Harms.

Comments

Authors & roles

Ioannis Tarnanas

Altoida Inc., Washington DC, Washington, DC (DC), 20003, USA

Roles
Corresponding Author, Co-Author, Conceptualization, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Writing – Original Draft Preparation
0000-0003-4069-6551

Panagiotis Vlamos

Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology Laboratory (BiHELab), Department of Informatics, Ionian University, 7 Tsirigoti Square, Corfu, Greece

Roles
Co-Author, Funding Acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project Administration, Validation

Dr Robbert Harms

Altoida Inc., Washington DC, Washington, DC (DC), 20003, USA

Roles
Co-Author, Conceptualization, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Writing – Original Draft Preparation

The RADAR-AD Consortium

Roles
Co-Author

Downloads over the last 12 months:

Cited by

via Crossref

View citing articles