Diagnostics,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
15(5), P. 612 - 612
Published: March 4, 2025
Alzheimer's
disease
(AD)
remains
a
significant
global
health
challenge,
affecting
millions
worldwide
and
imposing
substantial
burdens
on
healthcare
systems.
Advances
in
artificial
intelligence
(AI),
particularly
deep
learning
machine
learning,
have
revolutionized
neuroimaging-based
AD
diagnosis.
However,
the
complexity
lack
of
interpretability
these
models
limit
their
clinical
applicability.
Explainable
Artificial
Intelligence
(XAI)
addresses
this
challenge
by
providing
insights
into
model
decision-making,
enhancing
transparency,
fostering
trust
AI-driven
diagnostics.
This
review
explores
role
XAI
neuroimaging,
highlighting
key
techniques
such
as
SHAP,
LIME,
Grad-CAM,
Layer-wise
Relevance
Propagation
(LRP).
We
examine
applications
identifying
critical
biomarkers,
tracking
progression,
distinguishing
stages
using
various
imaging
modalities,
including
MRI
PET.
Additionally,
we
discuss
current
challenges,
dataset
limitations,
regulatory
concerns,
standardization
issues,
propose
future
research
directions
to
improve
XAI's
integration
practice.
By
bridging
gap
between
AI
interpretability,
holds
potential
refine
diagnostics,
personalize
treatment
strategies,
advance
research.
Decision Analytics Journal,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
9, P. 100352 - 100352
Published: Nov. 4, 2023
Malaria
represents
a
potentially
fatal
communicable
illness
triggered
by
the
Plasmodium
parasite.
This
disease
is
transmitted
to
humans
through
bites
of
Anopheles
mosquitoes
that
carry
infection.
has
significant
and
devastating
consequences
on
health
systems
fragile
countries,
particularly
in
sub-Saharan
Africa.
affects
red
blood
cells
invading
replicating
within
them,
destroying
releasing
toxic
byproducts
into
bloodstream.
The
parasite's
ability
stick
modify
surface
can
cause
them
become
sticky,
obstructing
flow
vital
organs
such
as
brain
spleen.
Therefore,
efficient
approaches
for
early
detection
malaria
are
critical
saving
patients'
lives.
main
aim
this
study
develop
an
model
diagnosis.
We
used
images
based
parasitized
uninfected
experiments.
applied
neural
network-based
Neural
Search
Architecture
Network
(NASNet)
compared
its
performance
with
machine
learning
techniques.
Moreover,
we
proposed
novel
NNR
(NASNet
Random
forest)
method
feature
engineering.
approach
first
extracts
spatial
features
from
input
images,
then
class
prediction
probability
extracted
these
features.
set
obtained
data
extraction
trains
models.
Our
comprehensive
experiments
show
support
vector
outperformed
state-of-the-art
models,
achieving
high-performance
score
99%
having
inference
time
near
0.025
s.
validated
using
k-fold
cross-validation
optimized
hyperparameters
tuning.
research
improved
diagnosis
assist
medical
specialists
reducing
mortality
rate.
Alexandria Engineering Journal,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
82, P. 484 - 502
Published: Oct. 20, 2023
Artificial
intelligence
(AI)-based
diagnostic
systems
provide
less
error-prone
and
safer
support
to
clinicians,
enhancing
the
medical
decision-making
process.
This
study
presents
a
smart
reliable
healthcare
framework
for
detecting
Alzheimer's
disease
(AD)
progression.
Early
detection
of
AD
before
onset
clinical
symptoms
is
most
crucial
step
in
starting
timely
treatment.
To
predict
conversion
cognitively
normal
patients
those
with
AD,
three-dimensional
3D
magnetic
resonance
imaging
(MRI)
whole-brain
neuroimaging
methods
have
been
extensively
studied.
However,
depending
on
volume,
this
method
computationally
expensive.
solve
problem,
we
used
an
approximate
rank
pooling
originally
designed
video
action
recognition
MRI
volume
obtain
compressed
representation
multiple
two-dimensional
(2D)
slices.
proposes
hybrid
multimodal
CNN-BiLSTM
deep
model
progression
detection,
which
resulting
dynamic
2D
images
are
fused
cognitive
features.
Moreover,
novel
explainable
AI
approach
proposed
visual
explanations
using
longitudinal
images.
Temporal
were
provided
by
visualizing
affected
brain
regions
captured
MRIs.
By
utilizing
sample
1,692
subjects
data
from
Disease
Neuroimaging
Initiative
dataset,
our
was
assessed
10-fold
cross-validation
The
achieved
area
under
receiver
operating
characteristics
curve
(AUC)
94%
three-time-step
image
data.
fusion
features
enhanced
performance
2%
terms
AUC.
Patients
who
gradually
develop
show
changes
various
regions.
For
such
patients,
system
highlights
critical
role
hippocampus,
medial
amygdala,
caudal
lateral
amygdala
at
initial
time
steps.
In
late
stages
detects
abnormalities
extra
as
temporal
gyrus,
superior
fusiform
hippocampus;
indicating
that
completely
progressed
AD.
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
6
Published: Jan. 8, 2024
Graph-based
representations
are
becoming
more
common
in
the
medical
domain,
where
each
node
defines
a
patient,
and
edges
signify
associations
between
patients,
relating
individuals
with
disease
symptoms
classification
task.
In
this
study,
Graph
Convolutional
Networks
(GCN)
model
was
utilized
to
capture
differences
neurocognitive,
genetic,
brain
atrophy
patterns
that
can
predict
cognitive
status,
ranging
from
Normal
Cognition
(NC)
Mild
Cognitive
Impairment
(MCI)
Alzheimer's
Disease
(AD),
on
Neuroimaging
Initiative
(ADNI)
database.
Elucidating
predictions
is
vital
applications
promote
clinical
adoption
establish
physician
trust.
Therefore,
we
introduce
decomposition-based
explanation
method
for
individual
patient
classification.
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
28(6), P. 3750 - 3761
Published: March 20, 2024
Early
diagnosisof
Alzheimer's
disease
plays
a
crucial
role
in
treatment
planning
that
might
slow
down
the
disease's
progression.
This
problem
is
commonly
posed
as
classification
task
performed
by
machine
learning
and
deep
techniques.
Although
data-driven
techniques
set
state-of-the-art
many
domains,
scale
of
available
datasets
research
not
sufficient
to
learn
complex
models
from
patient
data.
study
proposes
simple
yet
promising
framework
predict
conversion
Mild
Cognitive
Impairment
(MCI)
Disease
(AD).
The
proposed
comprises
shallow
neural
network
for
binary
single-step
gradient-based
adversarial
attack
find
an
progression
direction
input
space.
step
size
required
change
patient's
diagnosis
MCI
AD
indicates
distance
decision
boundary.
at
next
visit
predicted
employing
this
notion
We
also
present
potential
application
subtyping.
Experiments
with
two
publicly
imply
can
MCI-to-AD
conversions
assist
subtyping
only
training
network.
Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
32(4), P. 857 - 911
Published: April 30, 2024
The
emergence
of
deep
learning
(DL)
techniques
has
revolutionized
tumor
detection
and
classification
in
medical
imaging,
with
multimodal
imaging
(MMI)
gaining
recognition
for
its
precision
diagnosis,
treatment,
progression
tracking.
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
254, P. 108259 - 108259
Published: June 6, 2024
Alzheimer's
disease
(AD)
is
a
dreaded
degenerative
that
results
in
profound
decline
human
cognition
and
memory.
Due
to
its
intricate
pathogenesis
the
lack
of
effective
therapeutic
interventions,
early
diagnosis
plays
paramount
role
AD.
Recent
research
based
on
neuroimaging
has
shown
application
deep
learning
methods
by
multimodal
neural
images
can
effectively
detect
However,
these
only
concatenate
fuse
high-level
features
extracted
from
different
modalities,
ignoring
fusion
interaction
low-level
across
modalities.
It
consequently
leads
unsatisfactory
classification
performance.
In
this
paper,
we
propose
novel
multi-scale
attention
cross-enhanced
network,
MACFNet,
which
enables
multi-stage
between
inputs
learn
shared
feature
representations.
We
first
construct
Cross-Enhanced
Fusion
Module
(CEFM),
fuses
modalities
through
cross-structure.
addition,
an
Efficient
Spatial
Channel
Attention
(ECSA)
module
proposed,
able
focus
important
AD-related
more
efficiently
achieve
enhancement
two-stage
residual
concatenation.
Finally,
also
multiscale
guiding
block
(MSAG)
dilated
convolution,
obtain
rich
receptive
fields
without
increasing
model
parameters
computation,
improve
efficiency
extraction.
Experiments
Disease
Neuroimaging
Initiative
(ADNI)
dataset
demonstrate
our
MACFNet
better
performance
than
existing
methods,
with
accuracies
99.59%,
98.85%,
99.61%,
98.23%
for
AD
vs.
CN,
MCI,
CN
MCI
respectively,
specificity
98.92%,
97.07%,
99.58%
99.04%,
sensitivity
99.91%,
99.89%,
99.63%
97.75%,
respectively.
The
proposed
high-accuracy
diagnostic
framework.
Through
cross
mechanism
efficient
attention,
make
full
use
modal
medical
pay
local
global
information
images.
This
work
provides
valuable
reference
multi-mode
diagnosis.
PeerJ Computer Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
10, P. e2298 - e2298
Published: Oct. 30, 2024
With
the
increasing
availability
of
diverse
healthcare
data
sources,
such
as
medical
images
and
electronic
health
records,
there
is
a
growing
need
to
effectively
integrate
fuse
this
multimodal
for
comprehensive
analysis
decision-making.
However,
despite
its
potential,
fusion
in
remains
limited.
This
review
paper
provides
an
overview
existing
literature
on
healthcare,
covering
69
relevant
works
published
between
2018
2024.
It
focuses
methodologies
that
different
types
enhance
analysis,
including
techniques
integrating
with
structured
unstructured
data,
combining
multiple
image
modalities,
other
features.
Additionally,
reviews
various
approaches
fusion,
early,
intermediate,
late
methods,
examines
challenges
limitations
associated
these
techniques.
The
potential
benefits
applications
diseases
are
highlighted,
illustrating
specific
strategies
employed
artificial
intelligence
(AI)
model
development.
research
synthesizes
information
facilitate
progress
using
improved
diagnosis
treatment
planning.