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Chén OY, Vũ DT, Diaz CS, Bodelet JS, Phan H, Allali G, Nguyen VD, Cao H, He X, Müller Y, Zhi B, Shou H, Zhang H, He W, Wang X, Munafò M, Trung NL, Nagels G, Ryvlin P, Pantaleo G. Residual Partial Least Squares Learning: Brain Cortical Thickness Simultaneously Predicts Eight Non-pairwise-correlated Behavioural and Disease Outcomes in Alzheimer's Disease. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.03.11.584383. [PMID: 38559263 PMCID: PMC10979899 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.11.584383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
Abstract
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia. It results in cortical thickness changes and is associated with a decline in cognition and behaviour. Such decline affects multiple important day-to-day functions, including memory, language, orientation, judgment and problem-solving. Recent research has made important progress in identifying brain regions associated with single outcomes, such as individual AD status and general cognitive decline. The complex projection from multiple brain areas to multiple AD outcomes, however, remains poorly understood. This makes the assessment and especially the prediction of multiple AD outcomes - each of which may unveil an integral yet different aspect of the disease - challenging, particularly when some are not strongly correlated. Here, uniting residual learning, partial least squares (PLS), and predictive modelling, we develop an explainable, generalisable, and reproducible method called the Residual Partial Least Squares Learning (the re-PLS Learning) to (1) chart the pathways between large-scale multivariate brain cortical thickness data (inputs) and multivariate disease and behaviour data (outcomes); (2) simultaneously predict multiple, non-pairwise-correlated outcomes; (3) control for confounding variables (e.g., age and gender) affecting both inputs and outcomes and the pathways in-between; (4) perform longitudinal AD disease status classification and disease severity prediction. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method against a variety of alternatives on data from AD patients, subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and cognitively normal individuals ( n = 1,196 ) from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). Our results unveil pockets of brain areas in the temporal, frontal, sensorimotor, and cingulate areas whose cortical thickness may be respectively associated with declines in different cognitive and behavioural subdomains in AD. Finally, we characterise re-PLS' geometric interpretation and mathematical support for delivering meaningful neurobiological insights and provide an open software package (re-PLS) available at https://github.com/thanhvd18/rePLS.
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Affiliation(s)
- Oliver Y Chén
- Département Médecine de Laboratoire et Pathologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Faculté de Biologie et de Médecine, Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Département Médecine de Laboratoire et Pathologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
- The Advanced Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Département Médecine de Laboratoire et Pathologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Faculté de Biologie et de Médecine, Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Département Médecine de Laboratoire et Pathologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Centre Leenaards de la Mémoire, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Lab-STICC, École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées de Bretagne, Bretagne, France
- The Advanced Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA
- Division of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY, USA
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- School of Public Health, He University, Shengyang, China
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- Département Médecine de Laboratoire et Pathologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Innovation and Healthcare Group, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- School of Public Health, He University, Shengyang, China
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- Innovation and Healthcare Group, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- The Advanced Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Department of Neurology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Jette, Belgium
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Département des Neurosciences Cliniques, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Département Médecine de Laboratoire et Pathologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Ménard L, Diaz CS. The use of clenbuterol for the management of large animal dystocias: surgical corrections in the cow and ewe. Can Vet J 1987; 28:585-90. [PMID: 17422865 PMCID: PMC1680539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Clenbuterol (Ventipulmin(R) Solution) was included in the corrective management of dystocia cases requiring obstetrical surgery encountered in a Quebec rural practice. Data were collected on a total of 69 cases: 63 bovine and three ovine caesareans, and three bovine fetotomies. Ease of exteriorization of the gravid uterus and postoperative development of uterine adhesions were compared in two groups of bovine caesarean cases: a clenbuterol-treated group (Group A, n = 63) and a nontreated control group (Group B, n = 90). Clenbuterol produced a potent myometrial relaxant effect making its use beneficial in the correction of the bovine and ovine dystocias. It provided significantly improved uterine maneuverability (x(2) = 47.63, P < 0.001) and significantly reduced postoperative development of adhesions (x(2) = 14.05, P < 0.001) except in bovine caesarean cases with a high degree of myometrial distension. Neonatal and maternal health were not impaired and retention of fetal membranes was not increased. When used as directed, clenbuterol was a safe, reliable, and efficacious drug.
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