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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible devastative neurodegenerative disorder associated with progressive impairment of memory and cognitive functions. Its early diagnosis is crucial for the development of possible future treatment…

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Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is an irreversible neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive cognitive decline as its main symptom. In the research field of deep learning-assisted diagnosis of AD, traditional convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Yang Ming , Jiang Shi Zhong , Zhou Su Juan

In this paper, we address the problem of apparent age estimation. Different from estimating the real age of individuals, in which each face image has a single age label, in this problem, face images have multiple age labels, corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Refik Can Malli , Mehmet Aygun , Hazim Kemal Ekenel

Longitudinal imaging is capable of capturing the static ana\-to\-mi\-cal structures and the dynamic changes of the morphology resulting from aging or disease progression. Self-supervised learning allows to learn new representation from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-25 Antoine Rivail , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Wolf-Dieter Vogl , Sebastian M. Waldstein , Sophie Riedl , Christoph Grechenig , Zhichao Wu , Hrvoje Bogunović

The concept of biological age (BA), although important in clinical practice, is hard to grasp mainly due to the lack of a clearly defined reference standard. For specific applications, especially in pediatrics, medical image data are used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Karim Armanious , Sherif Abdulatif , Wenbin Shi , Shashank Salian , Thomas Küstner , Daniel Weiskopf , Tobias Hepp , Sergios Gatidis , Bin Yang

It has been recently shown that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can produce synthetic images of exceptional visual fidelity. In this work, we propose the GAN-based method for automatic face aging. Contrary to previous works employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Grigory Antipov , Moez Baccouche , Jean-Luc Dugelay

Accurate segmentation of brain tissues from MRI scans is critical for neuroscience and clinical applications, but achieving consistent performance across the human lifespan remains challenging due to dynamic, age-related changes in brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yongheng Sun , Jun Shu , Jianhua Ma , Fan Wang

Estimating brain age from structural MRI has emerged as a powerful tool for characterizing normative and pathological aging. In this work, we explore contrastive learning as a scalable and robust alternative to L1-supervised approaches for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Carlo Alberto Barbano , Benoit Dufumier , Edouard Duchesnay , Marco Grangetto , Pietro Gori

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurological disorder, meaning that the symptoms develop gradually throughout the years. It is also the main cause of dementia, which affects memory, thinking skills, and mental abilities. Nowadays,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Loukas Ilias , Dimitris Askounis , John Psarras

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Zahraa Sh. Aaraji , Hawraa H. Abbas

Despite the remarkable progress in face recognition related technologies, reliably recognizing faces across ages still remains a big challenge. The appearance of a human face changes substantially over time, resulting in significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Jian Zhao , Yu Cheng , Yi Cheng , Yang Yang , Haochong Lan , Fang Zhao , Lin Xiong , Yan Xu , Jianshu Li , Sugiri Pranata , Shengmei Shen , Junliang Xing , Hengzhu Liu , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

Automatic segmentation of brain MR images into white matter (WM), gray matter (GM), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is critical for tissue volumetric analysis and cortical surface reconstruction. Due to dramatic structural and appearance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-05 Xiaoyang Chen , Jinjian Wu , Wenjiao Lyu , Yicheng Zou , Kim-Han Thung , Siyuan Liu , Ye Wu , Sahar Ahmad , Pew-Thian Yap

Deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art results in estimating brain age, which is an important brain health biomarker, from magnetic resonance (MR) images. However, most of these models only provide a global age prediction, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Neha Gianchandani , Mahsa Dibaji , Mariana Bento , Ethan MacDonald , Roberto Souza

Generative AI models hold great potential in creating synthetic brain MRIs that advance neuroimaging studies by, for example, enriching data diversity. However, the mainstay of AI research only focuses on optimizing the visual quality (such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Wei Peng , Tomas Bosschieter , Jiahong Ouyang , Robert Paul , Ehsan Adeli , Qingyu Zhao , Kilian M. Pohl

Motivated by the following two observations: 1) people are aging differently under different conditions for changeable facial attributes, e.g., skin color may become darker when working outside, and 2) it needs to keep some unchanged facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Haien Zeng , Hanjiang Lai , Jian Yin

Recent evidence has shown that structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an effective tool for Alzheimer's disease (AD) prediction and diagnosis. While traditional MRI-based diagnosis uses images acquired at a single time point, a…

Applications · Statistics 2021-11-02 Xiaowu Dai

Neurodegeneration as measured through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is recognized as a potential biomarker for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease (AD), but is generally considered less specific than amyloid or tau based biomarkers. Due to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Rosemary He , Gabriella Ang , Daniel Tward

This work introduces a novel deep-learning approach for estimating age from a single facial image by refining an initial age estimate. The refinement leverages a reference face database of individuals with similar ages and appearances. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Ran Sandhaus , Yosi Keller

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive and irreversible brain disorder that unfolds over the course of 30 years. Therefore, it is critical to capture the disease progression in an early stage such that intervention can be applied before…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yipei Wang , Bing He , Shannon Risacher , Andrew Saykin , Jingwen Yan , Xiaoqian Wang