ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e146073
Brain age as an imaging-based diagnostic and treatment biomarker of neurodegenerative disorders
expand article infoMax Korbmacher
‡ Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
Open Access
Abstract

In the proposed project we expect to improve diagnosis and treatment for patients suffering from neurodegenerative diseases by establishing a new biomarker based on deep learning and big data outputs. We will use brain age, a neuroinaging-derived marker of brain health which has previously rarely been tested longitudinally, but not in neurodegenerative disorders. The analyses will help to assess treatment response as well as stratifying and sub-typing neurodegenerative disease based on brain structural characteristics in addition to multiple other markers of disease expression.

Keywords
magnetic resonance imaging, neurodegenerative disorders, brain age