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. 2017 Aug 15;7:8137. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-03925-0

Table 5.

Summary of notations used to refer to comparative strategies evaluated in this work.

Symbol Description
Classification Methods
CCAS Cascaded Classifier
COSC One Shot Classifier
COVA One-vs-All Classifier
CBIN Binary Classifier
Data Fusion Methods
SMVCCA Supervised Multiview CCA data fusion approach
PCA Principal component analysis of concatenated features as baseline fusion approach
Modality Selection
KALL Multimodal dataset comprising all modalities considered in this study
KSEL Multimodal dataset comprising select subset of all available modalities
KMRI Unimodal dataset containing quantitative attributes extracted from MRI
KPET Unimodal dataset containing quantitative attributes extracted from PET
KCSF Unimodal dataset containing proteomic measurements from CSF
KPP Unimodal dataset containing plasma proteomic data
KAPOE Unimodal dataset containing APOE data
KADAS Unimodal dataset containing ADAS-Cog scores
Comparative Methods
MRI (CCAS + KMRI) Cascaded classification of single modality MR data
PET (CCAS + KPET) Cascaded classification of single modality PET data
CSF (CCAS + KCSF) Cascaded classification of single modality CSF data
PP (CCAS + KPP) Cascaded classification of single modality Plasma Proteomics data
APOE (CCAS + KAPOE) Cascaded classification of single modality APOE data
ADAS (CCAS + KADAS) Cascaded classification of single modality ADAS-Cog data
CAMCCO (CCAS + SMVCCA + KSEL) Classifier resulting from CaMCCo framework, which is comprised of cascaded classifier, sMVCCA data fusion and modality selection
ALL (CCAS + SMVCCA + KALL) Cascaded classifier in combination with sMVCCA based data fusion method to combine all modalities
PCAL (CCAS + PCA + KALL) Cascaded classifier with PCA reduced representation of data concatenated from all modalities
PCA (CCAS + PCA + KSEL) Cascaded classifier with PCA reduced representation of data concatenated from selected subset of modalities
OVA (COVA + SMVCCA + KSEL) One-vs-all classifier constructed from sMVCCA fused data from selected modalities.
OSC (COSC + SMVCCA + KSEL) One shot classifier constructed from sMVCCA fused data from selected modalities.
BIN (CBIN + SMVCCA + KSEL) Binary classifier constructed from sMVCCA fused data from selected modalities.