arXiv Machine Learning

Cross-disorder Learning of Imaging-derived Joint Mophometric Markers in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases

arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 28

Systematic Morphometric Brain Autoencoding for Representation Learning in Neurodegenerative Diseases

The paper introduces SYMBA, a self‑supervised pretraining framework tailored for structural T1‑weighted brain MRI. SYMBA uses anatomically constrained masking, a multi‑scale structural similarity reconstruction loss, and a progressive curriculum to capture distributed morphometric patterns. Evaluated on nine heterogeneous cohorts and two unseen datasets, SYMBA outperforms existing neuroimaging foundation models, achieving high AUROC scores for Alzheimer’s disease classification, mild cognitive impairment conversion, and amyloid status prediction, and shows strong sample efficiency in low‑label settings.

By Nuria Balb\'as-Esteban, Albert Belenguer-Llorens, Elaheh Moradi, Jussi Tohka, Vanessa G\'omez-Verdejo, Carlos Sevilla-Salcedo
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Leveraging a Foundation Model for the EEG-Based Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

The paper presents a diagnostic framework for Alzheimer’s disease that uses the Large Brain Model (LaBraM), a foundation model pretrained on over 2,500 hours of EEG data, to generate high‑dimensional latent embeddings. These embeddings are fed into a non‑linear Random Forest classifier, achieving an ROC‑AUC of 89.36% ± 3.49%, PR AUC of 81.45% ± 4.43%, and Balanced Accuracy of 82.44% ± 4.34% in a subject‑independent 5‑fold cross‑validation setting, using only 8‑second EEG segments. Post‑hoc occlusion and neurophysiological alignment analyses confirm that the model captures clinically validated biomarkers such as occipital‑frontal Alpha and Theta rhythm degradation and correlates with cognitive performance and clinical severity.

By Maggie Lin, Chung-Lin Hou, Tzyy-Ping Jung
arXiv AI
Aug 21

Longitudinal Bayesian Learning of Continuous Disease Position across the Alzheimer's Disease Continuum

arXiv:2608. 19436v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Alzheimer's disease (AD) progresses as a continuous biological process, whereas most existing neuroimaging-based artificial intelligence methods remain limited to discrete diagnosis or clinical score prediction from cross-sectional imaging.

By Yingying Zhang, Kun Zhao, Guodong Liu, Qi Huang, Pengfei Gu, Dongchul Kim, Erik Enriquez, Alex D. Leow, Paul M. Thompson, Heng Huang, Hongchang Gao, Liang Zhan, Haoteng Tang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

Imputation-free transformer learning enables robust Alzheimer's disease prediction and calibrated uncertainty quantification across heterogeneous clinical cohorts

arXiv:2607. 11656v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate diagnostic classification and disease-severity prediction for Alzheimer's disease are hampered by the incompleteness and heterogeneity of real-world clinical data.

By Christelle Schneuwly Diaz, Narmina Baghirova, Duy-Thanh Vu, Duy-Cat Can, Gilles Allali, Philippe Ryvlin, Oliver Y. Ch\'en
arXiv AI
Sep 17

MINT: Multimodal Imaging-to-Speech Knowledge Transfer for Early Alzheimer's Screening

MINT (Multimodal Imaging-to-Speech Knowledge Transfer) is a three-stage framework that transfers MRI-derived biomarkers to speech representations for early Alzheimer’s screening. An MRI teacher creates a compact embedding space for CN‑versus‑MCI classification, and a residual projection head aligns speech features to this space using a geometric loss, allowing imaging‑free inference. Experiments on ADNI‑4 show that aligned speech matches speech baselines, while multimodal fusion outperforms MRI alone, and ablations highlight dropout regularization and self‑supervised pretraining as key design choices.

By Vrushank Ahire, Yogesh Kumar, Anouck Girard, M. A. Ganaie
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

3D MRI-Based Alzheimer's Disease Classification Using Multi-Modal 3D CNN with Leakage-Aware Subject-Level Evaluation

The paper presents a multimodal 3D convolutional neural network that classifies Alzheimer’s disease using raw OASIS 1 MRI volumes. It fuses structural T1 images with gray matter, white matter, and cerebrospinal fluid probability maps to capture complementary neuroanatomical information. Evaluated with 5‑fold subject‑level cross‑validation, the model achieves a mean accuracy of 72.34 % and an ROC AUC of 0.7781, with GradCAM visualizations highlighting anatomically relevant regions such as the medial temporal lobe and ventricles.

By Md Sifat, Sania Akter, Akif Islam, Md. Ekramul Hamid, Abu Saleh Musa Miah, Najmul Hassan, Md Abdur Rahim, Jungpil Shin
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 14

A Multimodal Explainable Deep Learning Framework for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis using 3D Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Clinical Data

The study presents an explainable multimodal deep‑learning framework that combines a 3D CNN for T1‑weighted MRI with a feedforward network for harmonized clinical and demographic data to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. Using 6,479 ADNI records and 1,703 OASIS‑3 records, the authors compare various model configurations on three‑way and pairwise diagnostic tasks, finding that performance and explanations vary by task, modality, fusion strategy, and cohort. SHAP and Integrated Gradients consistently highlight the MMSE score as the most influential tabular feature, while CAM‑based explanations differ across model setups and cohorts, indicating that explainability is not a stable property under cohort shift.

By Yusuf Brima, Marcellin Atemkeng, Lakshmana Rao Namamula, Antoine Vacavant