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Individuals age differently depending on a multitude of different factors such as lifestyle, medical history and genetics. Often, the global chronological age is not indicative of the true ageing process. An organ-based age estimation would…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Karim Armanious , Sherif Abdulatif , Anish Rao Bhaktharaguttu , Thomas Küstner , Tobias Hepp , Sergios Gatidis , Bin Yang

Graph neural network (GNN) models are increasingly being used for the classification of electroencephalography (EEG) data. However, GNN-based diagnosis of neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), remains a relatively…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-21 Dominik Klepl , Fei He , Min Wu , Daniel J. Blackburn , Ptolemaios G. Sarrigiannis

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neuro-degenerative disease that can cause dementia and result severe reduction in brain function inhibiting simple tasks especially if no preventative care is taken. Over 1 in 9 Americans suffer from AD induced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Paul K. Mandal , Rakesh Mahto

Over 30 papers have proposed to use convolutional neural network (CNN) for AD classification from anatomical MRI. However, the classification performance is difficult to compare across studies due to variations in components such as…

Dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with multiple etiologies, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and vascular dementia. Its clinical and biological heterogeneity makes diagnosis and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Niharika Tewari , Nguyen Linh Dan Le , Mujie Liu , Jing Ren , Ziqi Xu , Tabinda Sarwar , Veeky Baths , Feng Xia

Recent brain tumor classification methods often report high accuracy but rely on deep, over-parameterized architectures with limited interpretability, making it difficult to determine whether predictions are driven by tumor-relevant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Rajan Das Gupta , Md Imrul Hasan Showmick , Lei Wei , Mushfiqur Rahman Abir , Shanjida Akter , Md. Yeasin Rahat , Md. Jakir Hossen

The human electroencephalogram (EEG) of sleep undergoes profound changes with age. These changes can be conceptualized as "brain age", which can be compared to an age norm to reflect the deviation from normal aging process. Here, we develop…

Alzheimer's disease (AD), a degenerative brain condition, can benefit from early prediction to slow its progression. As the disease progresses, patients typically undergo brain atrophy. Current prediction methods for Alzheimers disease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xin Honga , Jie Lin , Minghui Wang

The brain age has been proven to be a phenotype of relevance to cognitive performance and brain disease. Achieving accurate brain age prediction is an essential prerequisite for optimizing the predicted brain-age difference as a biomarker.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Yanwu Yang , Xutao Guo , Zhikai Chang , Chenfei Ye , Yang Xiang , Haiyan Lv , Ting Ma

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that poses significant diagnostic challenges due to its complex etiology. Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have shown promise in modeling brain connectivity for AD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Tianqi Ding , Dawei Xiang , Keith E Schubert , Liang Dong

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

Brain age is a critical measure that reflects the biological ageing process of the brain. The gap between brain age and chronological age, referred to as brain PAD (Predicted Age Difference), has been utilized to investigate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Lemuel Puglisi , Alessia Rondinella , Linda De Meo , Francesco Guarnera , Sebastiano Battiato , Daniele Ravì

Large datasets often contain multiple distinct feature sets, or views, that offer complementary information that can be exploited by multi-view learning methods to improve results. We investigate anatomical multi-view data, where each brain…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-17 Yuxiang Wei , Yuqian Chen , Tengfei Xue , Leo Zekelman , Nikos Makris , Yogesh Rathi , Weidong Cai , Fan Zhang , Lauren J. O' Donnell

Early and accurate detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains a major challenge in medical diagnosis due to its subtle onset and progressive nature. This research introduces an explainable ensemble learning Framework designed to classify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Nishan Mitra

Age estimation technology is a part of facial recognition and has been applied to identity authentication. This technology achieves the development and application of a juvenile anti-addiction system by authenticating users in the game.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Miaomiao Yang , Changwei Yao , Shijin Yan

Identifying objective neuroimaging biomarkers to forecast Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression is crucial for timely intervention. However, this task remains challenging due to the complex dysfunctions in the spatio-temporal characteristics…

This paper presents a novel deep learning-based approach for simultaneous age and gender classification from facial images, designed to enhance the effectiveness of targeted advertising campaigns. We propose a custom Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Muhammad Imran Zaman , Nisar Ahmed

In recent days, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have demonstrated impressive performance in medical image analysis. However, there is a lack of clear understanding of why and how the Convolutional Neural Network performs so well for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Jyoti Islam , Yanqing Zhang

Brain age prediction using neuroimaging data has shown great potential as an indicator of overall brain health and successful aging, as well as a disease biomarker. Deep learning models have been established as reliable and efficient brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Bruno Machado Pacheco , Victor Hugo Rocha de Oliveira , Augusto Braga Fernandes Antunes , Saulo Domingos de Souza Pedro , Danilo Silva

We present a novel method for quantifying the microscopic structure of brain tissue. It is based on the automated recognition of interpretable features obtained by analyzing the shapes of cells. This contrasts with prevailing methods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Kui Qian , Litao Qiao , Beth Friedman , Edward O'Donnell , David Kleinfeld , Yoav Freund