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A Quantitative Analysis of Multimodal Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease

arXiv:2606. 17867v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite increasing adoption of multimodal approaches in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) research -- aimed at integrating molecular, structural, clinical, and genetic biomarkers to enhance disease characterization -- the relationships among these modalities remain poorly understood.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Modality Contribution Score - A Per-Patient Framework for Quantifying the Relative Diagnostic Contribution of Structural MRI and Amyloid PET in Alzheimer's Disease

The paper introduces MCNet, a neural network that assigns a Modality Contribution Score (MCS) to each patient, indicating how much structural MRI versus amyloid PET drives the diagnostic decision for Alzheimer’s disease. Across 327 ADNI-3 participants, MCNet achieved strong three‑class staging (AUC = 0.881) and the MCS showed a clear, statistically significant increase in PET dominance from cognitively normal to AD. The method was validated on an independent OASIS‑3 cohort and compared favorably to SHAP, suggesting it can guide personalized imaging and clinical trial decisions.

By Dawa Chyophel Lepcha, Aaliya Ali, Sophie A. Martin, Deepika Koundal, Pierrick Coupe, Shabbir Syed-Abdul
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4

SC-TauPath: A Structural Connectivity Attribution Framework for Mapping Tau Propagation Pathways in Alzheimer's Disease

arXiv:2606. 04066v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding how structural connections are associated with tau propagation in Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains a central open question, yet existing computational models either rely heavily on biophysical assumptions or lack neurobiologically interpretable pathway maps.

By Jing Zhang, Norman Scheel, Minheng Chen, Tong Chen, Yanjun Lyu, David C. Zhu, Rong Zhang, Dajiang Zhu
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 Computer Vision
4d ago

Achieving detailed medial temporal lobe segmentation with upsampled isotropic training from implicit neural representation

arXiv:2508.17171v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Imaging biomarkers in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are important tools for diagnosing, tracking and treating Alzheimer's disease (AD). Neurofib...

By Yue Li, Pulkit Khandelwal, Rohit Jena, Long Xie, Michael Duong, Amanda E. Denning, Christopher A. Brown, Laura E. M. Wisse, Sandhitsu R. Das, David A. Wolk, Paul A. Yushkevich