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Alzheimer's disease is the most common neurodegenerative disease. The aim of this study is to infer structural changes in brain connectivity resulting from disease progression using cortical thickness measurements from a cohort of…

Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative condition that accelerates cognitive decline relative to normal aging. It is of critical scientific importance to gain a better understanding of early disease mechanisms in the brain to facilitate…

Applications · Statistics 2022-01-19 D. Andrew Brown , Christopher S. McMahan , Russell T. Shinohara , Kristin A. Linn

Identifying and utilising various biomarkers for tracking Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression have received many recent attentions and enable helping clinicians make the prompt decisions. Traditional progression models focus on extracting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Xulong Wang , Yu Zhang , Menghui Zhou , Tong Liu , Jun Qi , Po Yang

Generative AI framework-based modeling and prediction of longitudinal human brain images offer an efficient mechanism to track neurodegenerative progression, essential for the assessment of diseases like Alzheimer's. Among the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ayantika Das , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

The path signature is a means of feature generation that can encode nonlinear interactions in the data as well as the usual linear features. It can distinguish the ordering of time-sequenced changes: for example whether or not the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-01 P. J. Moore , J. Gallacher , T. J. Lyons

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is a challenge because the existing methodologies do not identify the patients in their preclinical stage, which can last up to a decade prior to the onset of clinical symptoms. Several research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Vivek Kumar Tiwari , Premananda Indic , Shawana Tabassum

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is known as one of the major causes of dementia and is characterized by slow progression over several years, with no treatments or available medicines. In this regard, there have been efforts to identify the risk of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Wonsik Jung , Eunji Jun , Heung-Il Suk

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a degenerative brain disease impairing a person's ability to perform day to day activities. The clinical manifestations of Alzheimer's disease are characterized by heterogeneity in age, disease span, progression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Vipul Satone , Rachneet Kaur , Faraz Faghri , Mike A Nalls , Andrew B Singleton , Roy H Campbell

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive decline, structural brain changes, and genetic predispositions. This study leverages machine-learning and statistical techniques to investigate…

Applications · Statistics 2025-10-29 Riddhik Basu , Arkaprava Roy

Progressive diseases worsen over time and are characterised by monotonic change in features that track disease progression. Here we connect ideas from two formerly separate methodologies -- event-based and hidden Markov modelling -- to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Peter A. Wijeratne , Daniel C. Alexander

Recent studies on modelling the progression of Alzheimer's disease use a single modality for their predictions while ignoring the time dimension. However, the nature of patient data is heterogeneous and time dependent which requires models…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Sofia Lahrichi , Maryem Rhanoui , Mounia Mikram , Bouchra El Asri

Predicting the future development of an anatomical shape from a single baseline observation is a challenging task. But it can be essential for clinical decision-making. Research has shown that it should be tackled in curved shape spaces, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Doğa Türkseven , Islem Rekik , Christoph von Tycowicz , Martin Hanik

This paper explores deterioration in Alzheimers Disease using Machine Learning. Subjects were split into two datasets based on baseline diagnosis (Cognitively Normal, Mild Cognitive Impairment), with outcome of deterioration at final visit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Henry Musto , Daniel Stamate , Ida Pu , Daniel Stahl

The prediction of subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who will progress to Alzheimer's disease (AD) is clinically relevant, and may above all have a significant impact on accelerate the development of new treatments. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Kilian Hett , Vinh-Thong Ta , José V. Manjón , Pierrick Coupé

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a serious neurodegenerative disease consisting of four stages where the illness gets progressively worse. It is of great significance to detect the gene regulatory mechanism as AD progresses and, thus, to help us…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-14 Shanjun Mao , Xiaodan Fan

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…

We develop a Bayesian bivariate spatial model for multivariate regression analysis applicable to studies examining the influence of genetic variation on brain structure. Our model is motivated by an imaging genetics study of the Alzheimer's…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-26 Yin Song , Shufei Ge , Jiguo Cao , Liangliang Wang , Farouk S. Nathoo

The uncertainty of clinical examinations frequently leads to irregular observation intervals in longitudinal imaging data, posing challenges for modeling disease progression.Most existing imaging-based disease prediction models operate in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xin Hong , Ying Shi , Yinhao Li , Yen-Wei Chen

Alzheimer's disease is a degenerative brain disease. Being the primary cause of Dementia in adults and progressively destroys brain memory. Though Alzheimer's disease does not have a cure currently, diagnosing it at an earlier stage will…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Shrish Pellakur , Nelly Elsayed , Zag ElSayed , Murat Ozer

Computational models that forecast the progression of Alzheimer's disease at the patient level are extremely useful tools for identifying high risk cohorts for early intervention and treatment planning. The state-of-the-art work in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Surya Teja Devarakonda , Joie Yeahuay Wu , Yi Ren Fung , Madalina Fiterau