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Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, p. 152-159

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35428-1_19

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A Localized MKL Method for Brain Classification with Known Intra-class Variability

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Abstract

In this paper, we use the promising paradigm of Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) to challenge the problem of biomarker evaluation for schizophrenia detection. We use eight different Regions of Interest (ROIs) extracted from Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs). For each region we evaluate both tissue and geometric properties. We show that with MKL we not only obtain more accurate classifiers than using single source support vector machines (SVMs), feature concatenation and kernel averaging but also we evaluate the relevance of the brain biomarkers in predicting this disease. On a data set of 50 patients and 50 healthy controls we can achieve an increase of 7% accuracy compared to standard methods. Moreover, we are able to quantify the importance of each source of information by highlighting the synergies between the involved brain characteristics.