Deep Learning in Early Alzheimer's disease's Detection: A Comprehensive Survey of Classification, Segmentation, and Feature Extraction Methods

TL;DR

This survey reviews deep learning techniques for early Alzheimer's detection, focusing on classification, segmentation, and feature extraction methods, highlighting recent achievements and identifying research gaps for future exploration.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of deep learning applications in early Alzheimer's detection, emphasizing specific data channels and evaluating open datasets and methods.

Findings

CNN and RNN achieved up to 96% accuracy in classification

Deep learning outperforms traditional machine learning in this domain

Identifies research gaps and future directions in Alzheimer's detection

Abstract

Alzheimers disease is a deadly neurological condition, impairing important memory and brain functions. Alzheimers disease promotes brain shrinkage, ultimately leading to dementia. Dementia diagnosis typically takes 2.8 to 4.4 years after the first clinical indication. Advancements in computing and information technology have led to many techniques of studying Alzheimers disease. Early identification and therapy are crucial for preventing Alzheimers disease, as early-onset dementia hits people before the age of 65, while late-onset dementia occurs after this age. According to the 2015 World Alzheimers disease Report, there are 46.8 million individuals worldwide suffering from dementia, with an anticipated 74.7 million more by 2030 and 131.5 million by 2050. Deep Learning has outperformed conventional Machine Learning techniques by identifying intricate structures in high-dimensional data. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), have achieved an accuracy of up to 96.0% for Alzheimers disease classification, and 84.2% for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) conversion prediction. There have been few literature surveys available on applying ML to predict dementia, lacking in congenital observations. However, this survey has focused on a specific data channel for dementia detection. This study evaluated Deep Learning algorithms for early Alzheimers disease detection, using openly accessible datasets, feature segmentation, and classification methods. This article also has identified research gaps and limits in detecting Alzheimers disease, which can inform future research.