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The assessment of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) associated with brain changes remains a challenging task. Recent studies have demonstrated that combination of multi-modality imaging techniques can better…

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Objective: This paper presents an Alzheimer's disease (AD) detection method based on learning structural similarity between Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) and representing this similarity as a graph. Methods: We construct the similarity…

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common public health issues the world is facing today. This disease has a high prevalence primarily in the elderly accompanying memory loss and cognitive decline. AD detection is a challenging…

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Early diagnosis, playing an important role in preventing progress and treating the Alzheimer\{'}s disease (AD), is based on classification of features extracted from brain images. The features have to accurately capture main AD-related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ehsan Hosseini-Asl , Robert Keynto , Ayman El-Baz

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the progressive accumulation of misfolded proteins, leading to cognitive decline. This study presents a novel stochastic modelling approach to simulate the…

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease known to affect brain functional connectivity (FC). Linear FC measures have been applied to study the differences in AD by splitting neurophysiological signals such as…

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Brain transcriptomics provides insights into the molecular mechanisms by which the brain coordinates its functions and processes. However, existing multimodal methods for predicting Alzheimer's disease (AD) primarily rely on imaging and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Shan Cong , Zhoujie Fan , Hongwei Liu , Yinghan Zhang , Xin Wang , Haoran Luo , Xiaohui Yao

In medical image analysis, the subtle visual characteristics of many diseases are challenging to discern, particularly due to the lack of paired data. For example, in mild Alzheimer's Disease (AD), brain tissue atrophy can be difficult to…

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common age-related dementia. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is the early stage of cognitive decline before AD. It is crucial to predict the MCI-to-AD conversion for precise management, which remains…

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To understand multifactorial conditions such as Alzheimers disease (AD) we need brain signatures that predict the impact of multiple pathologies and their interactions. To help uncover the relationships between brain circuits and cognitive…

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) progresses from asymptomatic changes to clinical symptoms, emphasizing the importance of early detection for proper treatment. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), particularly dynamic functional network…

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Early diagnosis, playing an important role in preventing progress and treating the Alzheimer's disease (AD), is based on classification of features extracted from brain images. The features have to accurately capture main AD-related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Ehsan Hosseini-Asl , Georgy Gimel'farb , Ayman El-Baz

Graph theoretical methods have proven valuable for investigating alterations in both anatomical and functional brain connectivity networks during Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recent studies suggest that representing brain networks in a…

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Brain network analysis is essential for diagnosing and intervention for Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, previous research relied primarily on specific time-consuming and subjective toolkits. Only few tools can obtain the structural brain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Xuhang Chen , Baiying Lei , Chi-Man Pun , Shuqiang Wang

Alzheimer disease (AD) is considered one of the leading causes of death in the United States, and there is no effective cure for it. Understanding the neuropathological mechanisms underlying AD is essential for identifying early, reliable…

Machine learning approaches for Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis face a fundamental challenges. Clinical assessments are expensive and invasive, leaving ground truth labels available for only a fraction of neuroimaging datasets. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Alireza Moayedikia , Sara Fin

Identification of brain regions related to the specific neurological disorders are of great importance for biomarker and diagnostic studies. In this paper, we propose an interpretable Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) framework for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Houliang Zhou , Lifang He , Yu Zhang , Li Shen , Brian Chen

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common age-related dementia. It remains a challenge to identify the individuals at risk of dementia for precise management. Brain MRI offers a noninvasive biomarker to detect brain aging. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Chao Li , Yiran Wei , Xi Chen , Carola-Bibiane Schonlieb

Alzheimer's Disease destroys brain cells causing people to lose their memory, mental functions and ability to continue daily activities. It is a severe neurological brain disorder which is not curable, but earlier detection of Alzheimer's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Jyoti Islam , Yanqing Zhang

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is critical for intervention before irreversible neurodegeneration occurs. Structural MRI (sMRI) is widely used for AD diagnosis, but conventional deep learning approaches primarily rely on…

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