arXiv Machine Learning

A Multimodal Approach to Alzheimer's Diagnosis: Geometric Insights from Cube Copying and Cognitive Assessments

arXiv:2512. 16184v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Early and accessible detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains a critical clinical challenge, and cube-copying tasks offer a simple yet informative assessment of visuospatial function.

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 Machine Learning
Sep 16

Explainable Graph-theoretical Machine Learning with Application to Alzheimer's Disease Prediction

The paper introduces Explainable Graph-theoretical Machine Learning (XGML) to build individual metabolic brain graphs from FDG-PET data and identify subgraphs predictive of multivariate Alzheimer’s disease outcomes. Using ADNI data, the best model—kernel density estimation with Hellinger distance and random forest—achieved a Pearson correlation of 0.595 across eight cognitive scores, with the highest performance on ADAS13, ADAS11, and ADASQ4. Key edges were found to be jointly but differentially predictive, indicating potential network biomarkers for cognitive decline, though external validation on OASIS3 showed weaker performance likely due to cohort differences.

By Narmina Baghirova, Duy-Thanh V\~u, Duy-Cat Can, Christelle Schneuwly Diaz, Julien Bodlet, Guillaume Blanc, Georgi Hrusanov, Bernard Ries, Oliver Y. Ch\'en
arXiv AI
Jun 15

GMN4AD: Graph Matching Network for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis with Test-Time Domain Adaptation using Multi-centered Structure Magnetic Resonance Imaging

arXiv:2606. 13919v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects millions of older adults, with prevalence expected to rise significantly in the coming years.

By Chen Zhao, Huan Huang, Yixin Xie, Jiajing Huang, Weihua Zhou, Nandakumar Narayanan
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
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

Artemis: Anatomy-Resolved inTervention for Eliminating Multimodal NeuroImage confounderS

arXiv:2606. 18287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal neuroimaging, integrating functional connectivity from fMRI and structural connectivity from DTI, enables non-invasive analysis of brain networks using graph neural networks.

By Siyuan Dai, Yang Du, Kun Zhao, Zhusuyi Chen, Heng Huang, Paul Thompson, Chao Shi, Haoteng Tang, Liang Zhan
arXiv AI
Sep 25

Cross-Task Generalization in Handwriting-Based Alzheimer's Screening via Vision Language Adaptation

The paper introduces a lightweight Cross‑Layer Fusion Adapter (CLFA) that adapts the CLIP vision‑language model for handwriting‑based Alzheimer's disease screening. CLFA inserts multi‑level adapters into a frozen visual encoder, fusing cross‑layer features with depthwise 2D convolutions to capture both local stroke irregularities and higher‑level handwriting structure. On the Darwin dataset, CLFA achieves 74.63% AUC, 74.85% accuracy, and 73.72% F1, outperforming the best competing model by 2.15, 1.79, and 1.87 percentage points across 600 task‑disjoint source‑target pairs.

By Changqing Gong, Huafeng Qin, Mounim A. El-Yacoubi