arXiv:2605.16969cs.AI2026-05

用脑血流速度预测脑血管年龄,识别疾病导致的加速老化。

Brain Vascular Age Prediction Using Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity and Machine Learning Algorithms

论文配图:Brain Vascular Age Prediction Using Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity and Machine Learning Algorithms
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  • 从经颅多普勒数据提取特征,结合机器学习建模预测脑血管年龄。
  • 健康人脑血管年龄平均比实际年龄大3.69岁,患者群体老化更显著。
  • 适用于神经退行性疾病和中风患者的脑血管健康评估。

以生理功能定义血管年龄已成为追踪年龄变化的重要方向。经颅多普勒(TCD)可测量大脑主要动脉的脑血流速度。本研究利用TCD提取特征,预测受试者的时序年龄,并评估不同脑疾病患者的加速老化情况。基于168名健康受试者与277名有双侧中动脉TCD记录的疾病患者数据,采用MOCAIP算法生成特征,结合心率变异性特征输入回归模型,预测脑血管年龄。测试集包含66例急性中风、27例术后中风、26例阿尔茨海默病、23例轻度认知障碍及135例稳定期患者。训练模型显示,健康人群的脑血管年龄平均高出实际年龄3.69岁;不同疾病组别表现出不同程度的年龄加速。结果表明,基于TCD生成的特征对评估加速性脑血管老化具有相关性。此外,数据不平衡会显著影响机器学习模型在脑年龄预测中的表现。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Defining vascular age in terms of physiological function has become one focal point of the extensive studies to categorize and track chronological age. Transcranial Doppler (TCD) is a method by which cerebral blood flow velocity is measured along the major arteries feeding the human brain. This study aims to use features extracted from TCD to estimate chronological age and assess accelerated aging in subjects with various brain diseases. We predict subjects with various brain diseases to present with accelerated cerebrovascular aging when tested on various regression models trained by healthy subjects. 168 healthy subjects and 277 diseased subjects with bilateral TCD recordings of the middle cerebral artery were analyzed using the Morphological Analysis and Clustering of Intracranial Pressure (MOCAIP) algorithm. MOCAIP-generated features and heart rate variability features were used as input features for regression models to predict the brain vascular age. 66 subjects with acute stroke, 27 subjects with post stroke, 26 subjects with Alzheimer's disease, 23 subjects with mild cognitive impairment, and 135 established subjects were tested against the machine learning model to assess for accelerated cerebrovascular age. The trained model, on average, predicted healthy subjects' cerebrovascular age to be 3.69 years above their chronological age. Subjects with different disease conditions exhibited varying levels of age acceleration. The differences in healthy and diseased subjects' performances suggest that features generated using TCD may be relevant when evaluating accelerated cerebrovascular aging. Moreover, imbalanced datasets have been observed to affect the performance of machine-learning-based brain age prediction models.

脑血管年龄TCD机器学习老化评估

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