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Abstract #2690

Support Vector Machines Detect Huntington's Gene Effects in Mouse Brain Images with >98% Accuracy

Stephen J. Sawiak1, 2, A Jennifer Morton3, T. Adrian Carpenter1

1Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom; 2Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom; 3Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom


Support vector machines are used to detect whether high-resolution brain images are from healthy or transgenic Huntington's disease mice. We found that with leave-one-out cross validation the classifier has >98% accuracy at detecting the sick animals and we applied the same trained classifier to older healthy brains, revealing that the changes seen are not confused with healthy aging.