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The brain's biological age has been considered as a promising candidate for a neurologically significant biomarker. However, recent results based on longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging data have raised questions on its interpretation. A…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-12 Lukas AW Gemein , Robin T Schirrmeister , Joschka Boedecker , Tonio Ball

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

In this study, we propose the use of persistent homology -- specifically Betti curves for brain age prediction and for distinguishing between healthy and pathological aging. The proposed framework is applied to 100 structural MRI scans from…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-11 Debanjali Bhattacharya , Neelam Sinha

The brain-age gap is one of the most investigated risk markers for brain changes across disorders. While the field is progressing towards large-scale models, recently incorporating uncertainty estimates, no model to date provides the…

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

We adapt structural complexity analysis to three-dimensional signals, with an emphasis on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This framework captures the multiscale organization of volumetric data by coarse-graining the signal at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Anzhe Cheng , Italo Ivo Lima Dias Pinto , Paul Bogdan

Large-scale medical studies such as the UK Biobank examine thousands of volunteer participants with medical imaging techniques. Combined with the vast amount of collected metadata, anatomical information from these images has the potential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Taro Langner , Robin Strand , Håkan Ahlström , Joel Kullberg

Machine learning models for continuous outcomes often yield systematically biased predictions, particularly for values that largely deviate from the mean. Specifically, predictions for large-valued outcomes tend to be negatively biased…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-05 Hwiyoung Lee , Shuo Chen

While unsupervised variational autoencoders (VAE) have become a powerful tool in neuroimage analysis, their application to supervised learning is under-explored. We aim to close this gap by proposing a unified probabilistic model for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Qingyu Zhao , Ehsan Adeli , Nicolas Honnorat , Tuo Leng , Kilian M. Pohl

Predictive modeling using structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data is a prominent approach to study brain-aging. Machine learning algorithms and feature extraction methods have been employed to improve predictions and explore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Georgios Antonopoulos , Shammi More , Simon B. Eickhoff , Federico Raimondo , Kaustubh R. Patil

Brain age prediction based on children's brain MRI is an important biomarker for brain health and brain development analysis. In this paper, we consider the 3D brain MRI volume as a sequence of 2D images and propose a new framework using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Sheng He , Randy L. Gollub , Shawn N. Murphy , Juan David Perez , Sanjay Prabhu , Rudolph Pienaar , Richard L. Robertson , P. Ellen Grant , Yangming Ou

In recent years, there are various methods of estimating Biological Age (BA) have been developed. Especially with the development of machine learning (ML), there are more and more types of BA predictions, and the accuracy has been greatly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zhaonian Zhang , Richard Jiang , Danny Crookes , Paul Chazot

Multivariate regression models for age estimation are a powerful tool for assessing abnormal brain morphology associated to neuropathology. Age prediction models are built on cohorts of healthy subjects and are built to reflect normal aging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Benjamin Gutierrez Becker , Tassilo Klein , Christian Wachinger

Predicting future brain state from a baseline magnetic resonance image (MRI) is a central challenge in neuroimaging and has important implications for studying neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ali Farki , Elaheh Moradi , Deepika Koundal , Jussi Tohka

Deep learning algorithms for predicting neuroimaging data have shown considerable promise in various applications. Prior work has demonstrated that deep learning models that take advantage of the data's 3D structure can outperform standard…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Yuda Bi , Anees Abrol , Zening Fu , Jiayu Chen , Jingyu Liu , Vince Calhoun

While utilizing machine learning models, one of the most crucial aspects is how bias and fairness affect model outcomes for diverse demographics. This becomes especially relevant in the context of machine learning for medical imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-19 Mahsa Dibaji , Neha Gianchandani , Akhil Nair , Mansi Singhal , Roberto Souza , Mariana Bento

Lesion detection in brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) remains a challenging task. MRIs are typically read and interpreted by domain experts, which is a tedious and time-consuming process. Recently, unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Marcel Bengs , Finn Behrendt , Max-Heinrich Laves , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Alexander Schlaefer

Imaging findings inconsistent with those expected at specific chronological age ranges may serve as early indicators of neurological disorders and increased mortality risk. Estimation of chronological age, and deviations from expected…

Brain aging is a widely studied longitudinal process throughout which the brain undergoes considerable morphological changes and various machine learning approaches have been proposed to analyze it. Within this context, brain age prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Matthias Wilms , Jordan J. Bannister , Pauline Mouches , M. Ethan MacDonald , Deepthi Rajashekar , Sönke Langner , Nils D. Forkert

The brain age is a key indicator of brain health. While electroencephalography (EEG) is a practical tool for this task, existing models struggle with the common challenge of imperfect medical data, such as learning a ``normal'' baseline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Kunyu Zhang , Mingxuan Wang , Xiangjie Shi , Haoxing Xu , Chao Zhang