Fig. 1: Larger brain-imaging datasets are not enough for better machine-learning diagnosis of Alzheimer’s.
From: Machine learning for medical imaging: methodological failures and recommendations for the future
A meta-analysis across 6 review papers, covering more than 500 individual publications. The machine-learning problem is typically formulated as distinguishing various related clinical conditions, Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), Healthy Control (HC), and Mild Cognitive Impairment, which can signal prodromal Alzheimer’s . Distinguishing progressive mild cognitive impairment (pMCI) from stable mild cognitive impairment (sMCI) is the most relevant machine-learning task from the clinical standpoint. a Reported sample size as a function of the publication year of a study. b Reported prediction accuracy as a function of the number of subjects in a study. c Same plot distinguishing studies published in different years.
