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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…

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

Alzheimer's disease (AD), defined as an abnormal buildup of amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain can be diagnosed with high accuracy based on protein biomarkers via PET or CSF analysis. However, due to the invasive nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Megan A. Witherow , Michael L. Evans , Ahmed Temtam , Hamid R. Okhravi , Khan M. Iftekharuddin

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…

To date, there are no effective treatments for most neurodegenerative diseases. Knowledge graphs can provide comprehensive and semantic representation for heterogeneous data, and have been successfully leveraged in many biomedical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Yi Nian , Xinyue Hu , Rui Zhang , Jingna Feng , Jingcheng Du , Fang Li , Yong Chen , Cui Tao

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible, progressive neuro degenerative disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and eventually, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. In this paper, a deep neural network based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-17 Manu Subramoniam , Aparna T. R. , Anurenjan P. R. , Sreeni K. G

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder leading to cognitive decline. [$^{18}$F]-Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography ([$^{18}$F]-FDG PET) is used to monitor brain metabolism, aiding in the diagnosis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-01 Elena Doering , Merle C. Hönig , Tobias Deußer , Gerard N. Bischof , Thilo van Eimeren , Alexander Drzezga , Lotta M. Ellingsen

Accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is both challenging and time consuming. With a systematic approach for early detection and diagnosis of AD, steps can be taken towards the treatment and prevention of the disease. This study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Harshit Parmar , Eric Walden

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the main cause of dementia which is accompanied by loss of memory and may lead to severe consequences in peoples' everyday life if not diagnosed on time. Very few works have exploited transformer-based networks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Loukas Ilias , Dimitris Askounis

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common long-term illness in elderly people. In recent years, deep learning has become popular in the area of medical imaging and has had a lot of success there. It has become the most effective way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Mahin Khan Mahadi , Abdullah Abdullah , Jamal Uddin , Asif Newaz

This study presents an innovative method for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis using 3D MRI designed to enhance the explainability of model decisions. Our approach adopts a soft attention mechanism, enabling 2D CNNs to extract volumetric…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Gabriele Lozupone , Alessandro Bria , Francesco Fontanella , Frederick J. A. Meijer , Claudio De Stefano

Graphs are widely used as a natural framework that captures interactions between individual elements represented as nodes in a graph. In medical applications, specifically, nodes can represent individuals within a potentially large…

Alongside neuroimaging such as MRI scans and PET, Alzheimer's disease (AD) datasets contain valuable tabular data including AD biomarkers and clinical assessments. Existing computer vision approaches struggle to utilize this additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Weichen Huang

Multi-modal biological, imaging, and neuropsychological markers have demonstrated promising performance for distinguishing Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients from cognitively normal elders. However, it remains difficult to early predict when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Hongming Li , Yong Fan

Early prediction of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is crucial for timely intervention and treatment. This study aims to use machine learning approaches to analyze longitudinal electronic health records (EHRs) of patients with AD and identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Rumeng Li , Xun Wang , Dan Berlowitz , Brian Silver , Wen Hu , Heather Keating , Raelene Goodwin , Weisong Liu , Honghuang Lin , Hong Yu

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting millions of individuals across the globe. As the prevalence of this disease continues to rise, early diagnosis is crucial to improve clinical outcomes. Neural networks,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Akshay Sunkara , Rajiv Morthala , Anav Jain , Srinjoy Ghose , Santosh Morthala

Alzheimers disease is a deadly neurological condition, impairing important memory and brain functions. Alzheimers disease promotes brain shrinkage, ultimately leading to dementia. Dementia diagnosis typically takes 2.8 to 4.4 years after…

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with local (e.g. brain tissue atrophy) and global brain changes (loss of cerebral connectivity), which can be detected by high-resolution structural magnetic resonance imaging. Conventionally, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Sarah C. Brüningk , Felix Hensel , Catherine R. Jutzeler , Bastian Rieck

Unveiling pathological brain changes associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a challenging task especially that people do not show symptoms of dementia until it is late. Over the past years, neuroimaging techniques paved the way for…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-08-07 Mayssa Soussia , Islem Rekik

Alzheimer's disease (AD) leads to progressive cognitive decline, making early detection crucial for effective intervention. While deep learning models have shown high accuracy in AD diagnosis, their lack of interpretability limits clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yasmine Mustafa , Mohamed Elmahallawy , Tie Luo

Dementia is a syndrome characterised by the decline of different cognitive abilities. Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common dementia affecting cognitive domains such as memory and learning, perceptual-motion or executive function.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Juan Manuel Fernández Montenegro