Interpretable Hierarchical Deep Learning Model for Noninvasive Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis

Maryam Zokaeinikoo (), Pooyan Kazemian () and Prasenjit Mitra ()
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Maryam Zokaeinikoo: Department of Operations, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Pooyan Kazemian: Department of Operations, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Prasenjit Mitra: College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802

INFORMS Joural on Data Science, 2023, vol. 2, issue 2, 183-196

Abstract: Alzheimer’s disease is one of the leading causes of death in the world. Alzheimer’s is typically diagnosed through expensive imaging methods, such as positron emission tomography (PET) scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), as well as invasive methods, such as cerebrospinal fluid analysis. In this study, we develop an interpretable hierarchical deep learning model to detect the presence of Alzheimer’s disease from transcripts of interviews of individuals who were asked to describe a picture. Our deep recurrent neural network employs a novel three-level hierarchical attention over self-attention (AoS3) mechanism to model the temporal dependencies of longitudinal data. We demonstrate the interpretability of the model with the importance score of words, sentences, and transcripts extracted from our AoS3 model. Numerical results demonstrate that our deep learning model can detect Alzheimer’s disease from the transcripts of patient interviews with 96% accuracy when tested on the DementiaBank data set. Our interpretable neural network model can help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease in a noninvasive and affordable manner, improve patient outcomes, and result in cost containment.

Keywords: deep learning; Alzheimer’s disease; natural language processing; attention over self-attention; interpretable (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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