Disease (AD) and its prodromal stage, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Unlike the previous
methods that consider simple low-level features such as gray matter tissue volumes from
MRI, mean signal intensities from PET, in this paper, we propose a deep learning-based
feature representation with a stacked auto-encoder. We believe that there exist latent
complicated patterns, eg, non-linear relations, inherent in the low-level features. Combining …