Investigating the effect of changing parameters when building prediction models for post-stroke aphasia

Ajay D. Halai (), Anna M. Woollams and Matthew A. Lambon Ralph ()
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Ajay D. Halai: University of Cambridge
Anna M. Woollams: University of Manchester
Matthew A. Lambon Ralph: University of Cambridge

Nature Human Behaviour, 2020, vol. 4, issue 7, 725-735

Abstract: Abstract Neuroimaging has radically improved our understanding of how speech and language abilities map to the brain in normal and impaired participants, including the diverse, graded variations observed in post-stroke aphasia. A handful of studies have begun to explore the reverse inference: creating brain-to-behaviour prediction models. In this study, we explored the effect of three critical parameters on model performance: (1) brain partitions as predictive features, (2) combination of multimodal neuroimaging and (3) type of machine learning algorithms. We explored the influence of these factors while predicting four principal dimensions of language and cognition variation in post-stroke aphasia. Across all four behavioural dimensions, we consistently found that prediction models derived from diffusion-weighted data did not improve performance over models using structural measures extracted from T1 scans. Our results provide a set of principles to guide future work aiming to predict outcomes in neurological patients from brain imaging data.

Date: 2020
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