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Age is an essential factor in modern diagnostic procedures. However, assessment of the true biological age (BA) remains a daunting task due to the lack of reference ground-truth labels. Current BA estimation approaches are either restricted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Karim Armanious , Sherif Abdulatif , Wenbin Shi , Tobias Hepp , Sergios Gatidis , Bin Yang

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

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

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

Brain age estimation from Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) derives the difference between a subject's biological brain age and their chronological age. This is a potential biomarker for neurodegeneration, e.g. as part of Alzheimer's disease.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Kyriaki-Margarita Bintsi , Vasileios Baltatzis , Arinbjörn Kolbeinsson , Alexander Hammers , Daniel Rueckert

Brain age is the estimate of biological age derived from neuroimaging datasets using machine learning algorithms. Increasing brain age with respect to chronological age can reflect increased vulnerability to neurodegeneration and cognitive…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-13 Saurabh Sihag , Gonzalo Mateos , Alejandro Ribeiro

Neuroimaging-driven prediction of brain age, defined as the predicted biological age of a subject using only brain imaging data, is an exciting avenue of research. In this work we seek to build models of brain age based on functional…

Brain aging involves structural and functional changes and therefore serves as a key biomarker for brain health. Combining structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has the potential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Abd Ur Rehman , Azka Rehman , Muhammad Usman , Abdullah Shahid , Sung-Min Gho , Aleum Lee , Tariq M. Khan , Imran Razzak

The deviation between chronological age and biological age is a well-recognized biomarker associated with cognitive decline and neurodegeneration. Age-related and pathology-driven changes to brain structure are captured by various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Saurabh Sihag , Gonzalo Mateos , Corey McMillan , Alejandro Ribeiro

Human language processing relies on the brain's capacity for predictive inference. We present a machine learning framework for decoding neural (EEG) responses to dynamic visual language stimuli in Deaf signers. Using coherence between…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-25 Sean C. Borneman , Julia Krebs , Ronnie B. Wilbur , Evie A. Malaia

Brain age is the estimate of biological age derived from neuroimaging datasets using machine learning algorithms. Increasing \textit{brain age gap} characterized by an elevated brain age relative to the chronological age can reflect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Saurabh Sihag , Gonzalo Mateos , Alejandro Ribeiro

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

The accurate quantification of brain age from MRI has emerged as an important biomarker of brain health. However, existing approaches are often restricted to narrow age ranges and single-modality MRI data, limiting their capacity to capture…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Dingyi Zhang , Ruiying Liu , Yun Wang

Purpose: To develop an age prediction model which is interpretable and robust to demographic and technological variances in brain MRI scans. Materials and Methods: We propose a transformer-based architecture that leverages self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Pengyu Kan , Craig Jones , Kenichi Oishi

In this paper, we investigate stable patterns of electroencephalogram (EEG) over time for emotion recognition using a machine learning approach. Up to now, various findings of activated patterns associated with different emotions have been…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Wei-Long Zheng , Jia-Yi Zhu , Bao-Liang Lu

Our knowledge of the organisation of the human brain at the population-level is yet to translate into power to predict functional differences at the individual-level, limiting clinical applications, and casting doubt on the generalisability…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-04 James K Ruffle , Robert J Gray , Samia Mohinta , Guilherme Pombo , Chaitanya Kaul , Harpreet Hyare , Geraint Rees , Parashkev Nachev

Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are vital for supporting clinical decision-making in biomedical informatics. However, their predictive performance can vary across demographic groups, often due to the underrepresentation of historically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ioannis Bilionis , Ricardo C. Berrios , Luis Fernandez-Luque , Carlos Castillo

Speech classification has attracted increasing attention due to its wide applications, particularly in classifying physical and mental states. However, these tasks are challenging due to the high variability in speech signals. Ensemble…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-25 Bagus Tris Atmaja , Felix Burkhardt

Many studies have explored brain signals during the performance of a memory task to predict later remembered items. However, prediction methods are still poorly used in real life and are not practical due to the use of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-11 Jenifer Kalafatovich , Minji Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

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