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SUBMITTER: Park JY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5343676 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Park Jong-Yun JY Na Han Kyu HK Kim Sungsoo S Kim Hyunwook H Kim Hee Jin HJ Seo Sang Won SW Na Duk L DL Han Cheol E CE Seong Joon-Kyung JK
Scientific reports 20170309
Accumulating evidence suggests that Alzheimer's disease (AD) is heterogenous and can be classified into several subtypes. Here, we propose a robust subtyping method for AD based on cortical atrophy patterns and graph theory. We calculated similarities between subjects in their atrophy patterns throughout the whole brain, and clustered subjects with similar atrophy patterns using the Louvain method for modular organization extraction. We applied our method to AD patients recruited at Samsung Medi ...[more]