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Dementia is a devastating disease, and has severe implications on affected individuals, their family and wider society. A growing body of literature is studying the association of retinal microvasculature measurement with dementia. We present a pilot study testing the strength of groups of conventional (semantic) and texture-based (non-semantic) measurements extracted from retinal fundus camera images to classify patients with and without dementia. We performed a 500-trial bootstrap analysis with regularized logistic regression on a cohort of 1,742 elderly diabetic individuals (median age 72.2). Age was the strongest predictor for this elderly cohort. Semantic retinal measurements featured in up to 81% of the bootstrap trials, with arterial caliber and optic disk size chosen most often, suggesting that they do complement age when selected together in a classifier. Textural features were able to train classifiers that match the performance of age, suggesting they are potentially a rich source of information for dementia outcome classification.
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This work was supported by EPSRC grant EP/M005976/1 “Multi-modal retinal biomarkers for vascular dementia”.
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Fetit, A.E. et al. (2017). Retinal Biomarker Discovery for Dementia in an Elderly Diabetic Population. In: Cardoso, M., et al. Fetal, Infant and Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis. OMIA FIFI 2017 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10554. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67561-9_17
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