arXiv:2512. 10966v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate and early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is critical for effective intervention and requires integrating complementary information from multimodal neuroimaging data.
By Farica Zhuang, Shu Yang, Dinara Aliyeva, Zixuan Wen, Duy Duong-Tran, Christos Davatzikos, Tianlong Chen, Song Wang, Li Shen
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: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
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
Brain-PACE is a deep Siamese MRI framework that directly estimates the pace of structural brain ageing from paired T1‑weighted MRI scans, extending the LILAC model with spatial attention, soft label distribution learning, and a Cramér distance objective. In a study of participants with mild cognitive impairment, 42.6 % showed accelerated ageing, and faster Brain‑PACE scores correlated with greater functional and cognitive impairment as well as higher regional tau burden in key brain regions. The method improves probabilistic performance, reduces prediction bias, and provides predictive uncertainty, offering a complementary longitudinal imaging phenotype sensitive to early neurodegeneration.
By Samuel Maddox (School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia), Jacob Newman (School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia), Saber Sami (Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia), Michal Mackiewicz (School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia), for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, the Australian Imaging Biomarkers, Lifestyle flagship study of ageing
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.