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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

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

Estimating brain age (BA) from T1-weighted magnetic resonance images (MRIs) provides a powerful framework for quantifying anatomical brain aging. Whereas global BA (GBA) summarizes overall brain health, local BA (LBA) provides cortically…

Bone age assessment (BAA) is clinically important as it can be used to diagnose endocrine and metabolic disorders during child development. Existing deep learning based methods for classifying bone age use the global image as input, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Chao Chen , Zhihong Chen , Xinyu Jin , Lanjuan Li , William Speier , Corey W. Arnold

Brain age prediction from MRI has become a popular imaging biomarker associated with a wide range of neuropathologies. The datasets used for training, however, are often skewed and imbalanced regarding demographics, potentially making brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Carolina Piçarra , Ben Glocker

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 computational neuroscience, there has been an increased interest in developing machine learning algorithms that leverage brain imaging data to provide estimates of "brain age" for an individual. Importantly, the discordance between brain…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-30 Saurabh Sihag , Gonzalo Mateos , Corey McMillan , Alejandro Ribeiro

Several brain disorders can be detected by observing alterations in the brain's structural and functional connectivities. Neurological findings suggest that early diagnosis of brain disorders, such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), can…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-22 Alpay Tekin , Ahmed Nebli , Islem Rekik

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

The human electroencephalogram (EEG) of sleep undergoes profound changes with age. These changes can be conceptualized as "brain age", which can be compared to an age norm to reflect the deviation from normal aging process. Here, we develop…

Brain aging is a complex and dynamic process, leading to functional and structural changes in the brain. These changes could lead to the increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases and cognitive decline. Accurate brain-age estimation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Saadat Behzadi , Danial Sharifrazi , Roohallah Alizadehsani , Mojtaba Lotfaliany , Mohammadreza Mohebbi

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

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

Deep neural networks (DNN) have been designed to predict the chronological age of a healthy brain from T1-weighted magnetic resonance images (T1 MRIs), and the predicted brain age could serve as a valuable biomarker for the early detection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Yu Fu , Yanyan Huang , Shunjie Dong , Yalin Wang , Tianbai Yu , Meng Niu , Cheng Zhuo

Bone Age Assessment (BAA) is a task performed by radiologists to diagnose abnormal growth in a child. In manual approaches, radiologists take into account different identity markers when calculating bone age, i.e., chronological age and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Cristina González , María Escobar , Laura Daza , Felipe Torres , Gustavo Triana , Pablo Arbeláez

Longitudinal assessment of brain atrophy, particularly in the hippocampus, is a well-studied biomarker for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). In clinical trials, estimation of brain progressive rates can be…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-11 Mengjin Dong , Long Xie , Sandhitsu R. Das , Jiancong Wang , Laura E. M. Wisse , Robin deFlores , David A. Wolk , Paul A. Yushkevich

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

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

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

Neurodegeneration, characterized by the progressive loss of neuronal structure or function, is commonly assessed in clinical practice through reductions in cortical thickness or brain volume, as visualized by structural MRI. While…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Saurabh Sihag , Gonzalo Mateos , Alejandro Ribeiro