Abstract:
Introduction
Our goal was to develop cut points for amyloid positron emission tomography (PET), tau PET, flouro-deoxyglucose (FDG) PET, and MRI cortical thickness.
Methods
We examined five methods for determining cut points.
Results
The reliable worsening method produced a cut point only for amyloid PET. The specificity, sensitivity, and accuracy of clinically impaired versus young clinically normal (CN) methods labeled the most people abnormal and all gave similar cut points for tau PET, FDG PET, and cortical thickness. Cut points defined using the accuracy of clinically impaired versus age-matched CN method labeled fewer people abnormal.
Discussion
In the future, we will use a single cut point for amyloid PET (standardized uptake value ratio, 1.42; centiloid, 19) based on the reliable worsening cut-point method. We will base lenient cut points for tau PET, FDG PET, and cortical thickness on the accuracy of clinically impaired versus young CN method and base conservative cut points on the accuracy of clinically impaired versus age-matched CN method.
Keywords:
Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer's imaging, Alzheimer's MRI, Amyloid PET, Tau PET, FDG PET, Alzheimer's biomarkers, Quantitative imaging
Citation: Clifford R. Jack Jr, Heather J. Wiste, Stephen D. Weigand, Terry M. Therneau, Val J. Lowe, David S. Knopman, Jeffrey L. Gunter, Matthew L. Senjem, David T. Jones, Kejal Kantarci, Mary M. Machulda, Michelle M. Mielke, Rosebud O. Roberts, Prashanthi Vemuri, Denise Reyes, Ronald C. Petersen Defining Imaging Biomarker Cut Points For Brain Aging And Alzheimer's Disease DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2016.08.005
Published online: September 30, 2016
Copyright: © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of the Alzheimer’s Association. This is an
open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Acknowledgments
This study was supported by the National Institute of Health (R01 AG011378, R01 AG041851, U01 AG006786, and R01
AG034676), the GHR Foundation, and the Alexander.
