The study presents a multimodal BrainAGE framework that fuses structural T1-weighted MRI with DeepCBV maps—vascular information synthesized from non‑contrast MRI—to estimate brain age more accurately. Using two separate 3D convolutional neural networks, the combined model achieved a mean absolute error of 3.95 years on cognitively normal controls, outperforming single‑modality models. Saliency analyses showed MRI highlighted white matter and cortical atrophy, while DeepCBV emphasized vascular‑rich regions, and the integrated approach revealed stronger differentiation between stable and progressive MCI, indicating sensitivity to early vascular changes.
By Jordan Jomsky, Zongyu Li, Kay C. Igwe, Yiren Zhang, Max Lashley, Tal Nuriel, Andrew Laine, Scott A. Small, Jia Guo, for the Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Neuroimaging Initiative, for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
arXiv:2607. 06629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain age -- the age inferred from a physiological recording -- is an emerging biomarker whose deviation from chronological age tracks neurological and psychiatric burden, and EEG is an attractive substrate for it because it is cheap, portable, and temporally rich.
By Roy Segal, Yoni Svechinsky, Tomer Fekete
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
BrainNorm is a normative foundation model trained on about 66,000 T1-weighted structural MRI scans. It uses language‑image style contrastive pretraining to create a Semantic Atlas Latent space (SAL), where each scan is encoded as atlas‑parcel embeddings that capture healthy aging trajectories. The model supports age‑consistent template matching, localized deviation scoring, and zero‑shot disease prediction, outperforming nine baselines across multiple downstream tasks and aligning its deviation patterns with known neurodegeneration pathology.
arXiv:2607. 28687v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As populations age, cognitive decline from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia is a defining health challenge of the coming decades, yet routine assessment often misses its earliest signs.
By Mohammad Asif, Azizuddin Khan, Mohd Azam, Anurag Rajkumar Bombarde
arXiv:2607. 07091v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In longitudinal Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis support, clinical and imaging information is often collected at irregular visits.
By Xinyue Du, Yibo Liu, Zhenglei Zhou, Xuancheng Yao, Weimin Zhong, Qiuhui Chen
arXiv:2605.28397v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Predicting which people with mild cognitive impairment will develop dementia matters for early treatment. Yet structural imaging models have relied...
By Sara Fin, Alireza Moayedikia, Uffe Kock Wiil, Alicia Troncoso
In longitudinal Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis support, clinical and imaging information is often collected at irregular visits. Integrating these multimodal observations may improve diagnostic assessment, but naive fusion can degrade performance when MRI is noisy or intermittently unavailable.
arXiv:2609.00593v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Neuroradiologists rarely read a brain MRI in isolation, yet automated brain-MRI report generation has been built almost entirely for single studies. Te...
By Krish Patel, Peirong Liu
The study investigates whether a compact, supervised 3D CNN pretrained for brain‑age prediction can act as a reusable foundation model for various Alzheimer's‑related neuroimaging tasks. By freezing the 7.18 million weights and adding only ~1 % of trainable parameters via Low‑Rank Adaptation, the model achieved high performance across six experiments, including dementia classification, MCI progression prediction, amyloid positivity detection, and volume estimation of hippocampal and white matter hypointensities. The results demonstrate that the pretrained brain‑age model generalizes well to new datasets without retraining, offering a data‑efficient alternative to larger networks.
By Reza Rajabli, D. Louis Collins
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:2608.30418v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) functional connectivity (FC) matrices are widely used for individual-level prediction,...
By Ce Ju, Antoine Collas, Florent Bouchard, Bertrand Thirion