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In recent years, deep learning models have been applied to neuroimaging data for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) images provide structural and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Yanteng Zhanga , Xiaohai He , Yi Hao Chan , Qizhi Teng , Jagath C. Rajapakse

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful black-box predictors that have achieved impressive performance on a wide variety of tasks. However, their accuracy comes at the cost of intelligibility: it is usually unclear how they make their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Rishabh Agarwal , Levi Melnick , Nicholas Frosst , Xuezhou Zhang , Ben Lengerich , Rich Caruana , Geoffrey Hinton

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

Accurate and early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is critical for effective intervention and requires integrating complementary information from multimodal neuroimaging data. However, conventional fusion approaches often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Farica Zhuang , Shu Yang , Dinara Aliyeva , Zixuan Wen , Duy Duong-Tran , Christos Davatzikos , Tianlong Chen , Song Wang , Li Shen

Machine learning for tabular data remains constrained by poor schema generalization, a challenge rooted in the lack of semantic understanding of structured variables. This challenge is particularly acute in domains like clinical medicine,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hongxi Mao , Wei Zhou , Mengting Jia , Tao Fang , Huan Gao , Bin Zhang , Shangyang Li

In neuroscience, identifying distinct patterns linked to neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's and Autism, is critical for early diagnosis and effective intervention. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown promising in analyzing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Jiaxing Xu , Yongqiang Chen , Xia Dong , Mengcheng Lan , Tiancheng Huang , Qingtian Bian , James Cheng , Yiping Ke

Early diagnosis, playing an important role in preventing progress and treating the Alzheimer\{'}s disease (AD), is based on classification of features extracted from brain images. The features have to accurately capture main AD-related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ehsan Hosseini-Asl , Robert Keynto , Ayman El-Baz

Over the past decade, machine learning techniques especially predictive modeling and pattern recognition in biomedical sciences from drug delivery system to medical imaging has become one of the important methods which are assisting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Saman Sarraf , Ghassem Tofighi

Visualizing and interpreting convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is an important task to increase trust in automatic medical decision making systems. In this study, we train a 3D CNN to detect Alzheimer's disease based on structural MRI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Johannes Rieke , Fabian Eitel , Martin Weygandt , John-Dylan Haynes , Kerstin Ritter

Reliable detection of the prodromal stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains difficult even today because, unlike other neurocognitive impairments, there is no definitive diagnosis of AD in vivo. In this context, existing research has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Amish Mittal , Sourav Sahoo , Arnhav Datar , Juned Kadiwala , Hrithwik Shalu , Jimson Mathew

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown exceptional performances in a wide range of tasks and have become the go-to method for problems requiring high-level predictive power. There has been extensive research on how DNNs arrive at their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Mattias Luber , Anton Thielmann , Benjamin Säfken

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive brain disorder that causes memory and functional impairments. The advances in machine learning and publicly available medical datasets initiated multiple studies in AD diagnosis. In this work, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Aidana Massalimova , Huseyin Atakan Varol

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive and incurable neurodegenerative disease which destroys brain cells and causes loss to patient's memory. An early detection can prevent the patient from further damage of the brain cells and hence…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-11 Ali Nawaz , Syed Muhammad Anwar , Rehan Liaqat , Javid Iqbal , Ulas Bagci , Muhammad Majid

Neurosymbolic AI combines the interpretability, parsimony, and explicit reasoning of classical symbolic approaches with the statistical learning of data-driven neural approaches. Models and policies that are simultaneously differentiable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Peter Graf , Patrick Emami

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, neurodegenerative disorder that causes memory loss and cognitive decline. While there has been extensive research in applying deep learning models to Alzheimer's prediction tasks, these models remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Emily Kaczmarek , Justin Szeto , Brennan Nichyporuk , Tal Arbel

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

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

Discovering governing equations of complex network dynamics is a fundamental challenge in contemporary science with rich data, which can uncover the mysterious patterns and mechanisms of the formation and evolution of complex phenomena in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jiao Hu , Jiaxu Cui , Bo Yang

Early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its prodromal period mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is essential for the delayed disease progression and the improved quality of patients'life. The emerging computer-aided…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-29 Fan Zhang , Bo Pan , Pengfei Shao , Peng Liu , Shuwei Shen , Peng Yao , Ronald X. Xu

Stacking excessive layers in DNN results in highly underdetermined system when training samples are limited, which is very common in medical applications. In this regard, we present a framework capable of deriving an efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Seunghun Baek , Injun Choi , Mustafa Dere , Minjeong Kim , Guorong Wu , Won Hwa Kim