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Showing 1–25 of 55 studies in Digital health tools scoring ≤ 29 out of 100 (page 1 of 3) · 27,380 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

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What “Digital health tools” covers

Digital health tools — Apps, wearables, online tests and other technology used to detect, monitor or support people with dementia.

A note on reading research. One study is rarely the final word.

We try to note the size of a study, whether it was in humans or animals, and how early-stage the finding is. If a summary here doesn't make that clear, treat it with extra caution and check the original source.

The results suggest a viable pathway for developing ML support tools to provide feedback on DDP compliance at an early design stage. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

The global increase in the elderly population, which is expected to reach 2.1 billion by 2050, has highlighted the need for reliable monitoring systems to assist elderly individuals, especially those with dementia. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

While this process allows machine learning models to make more precise and reliable diagnoses, systems developed on the basis of Dr. Roman Poznanski's DOT (Dynamic Optimization of Thought) theory offer a new method in the diagnosis of neurological diseases. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

Overall, AI has substantial potential to support more precise, person-centred care for older adults, but realising this promise will require multimorbidity-aware, transparent models, robust evaluation in diverse geriatric populations and governance frameworks that ensure fairness, privacy and meaningful human oversight. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia and represents a significant global health problem due to its profound impact on patients' quality of life and the heavy burden it places on health care. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

Genomics link obesity and type 2 diabetes to Alzheimers disease to unveil novel biological insights

⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-17

Body mass index (BMI), type 2 diabetes (T2D) and related cardiometabolic features associate with Alzheimers disease (AD) risk, yet shared mechanisms remain poorly understood. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

AbstractO_ST_ABSBackgroundC_ST_ABSGlucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists and sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors are increasingly used for type 2 diabetes. 5 key findings →

Participants: 6,328 Evidence: low

Smartphone Passive Digital Phenotyping in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-21

IntroductionFrontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a devastating disease that commonly results in early onset dementia, yet its rarity and heterogeneity limit large-scale research and clinical trials. 2 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Participants: 567 Evidence: moderate

Artificial intelligence can assist providers in a variety of patient care and intelligent health systems. 1 key finding →

Design: meta-analysis Evidence: high

Integrating Multisource Target Evidence with Machine-Learning Potency Prediction for Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Discovery

⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-20

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) target evidence is distributed across biological, chemical, structural, regulatory, and trial-registry sources, complicating reproducible target evaluation and modeling. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

Understanding Performance Plateaus and Representation Collapse in 3D MRI Transformers Trained to Classify Brain Disease

⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-16

To distinguish these cases, we trained three types of supervised 3D transformers (ViT3D, MINiT, NIT) and, as a non-collapsing alternative, a frozen self-supervised encoder (DINO), to classify people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) versus cognitively normal (CN) individuals from 3D brain MRI, using data from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

Identifying Individualized Multiple Chronic Condition Pathways Associated with Dementia

⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-10-10

Unlike traditional eager decision trees (eagerDT), which lacked sufficient training data for 17%-33% of patient profiles, lazyDT-MCCPath successfully modeled all profiles and achieved a 0.17 improvement in AUROC (0.66 vs. 0.83). lazyDT-MCCPath effectively translates pre-existing MCC profiles into personalized dementia risk probabilities for emerging conditions, which may help clinicians prioritize MCCs to monitor more closely. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

Patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD), chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), and/or diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) are at increased risk for limb loss and death. 3 key findings →

Participants: 178,995 Evidence: moderate

Forecasting Alzheimer’s disease progression using non-imaging clinical features and XGBoost

⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-07

Machine learning (ML) methods have shown promise in modeling clinical trajectories associated with neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). 3 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Participants: 15,727 Evidence: moderate

Imputation-Based Harmonization Mitigates Site Effects Without Data Leakage in Machine Learning Studies

⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-10-05

Neuroimaging studies that pool data across clinical sites often suffer from site effects — variability in imaging measures that arises from technical heterogeneity across sites as opposed to true biological signal. 5 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

Examining the Clinical Utility of Deep Learning Models for Perivascular Space Segmentation in Alzheimer’s Disease

⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-09-28

Open-source deep learning models promise scalable quantification of MRI-visible perivascular spaces (PVS), an emerging marker of glymphatic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). 4 key findings →

Evidence: moderate

Diagnostic Labels and Measurement Timing Drive Systematic Inconsistency in ADNI Neuroimaging Data

⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-22

The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is widely used to train machine learning models for Alzheimer’s disease, yet whether it provides consistent ground truth for predictive modeling has not been systematically tested. 3 key findings →

Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate

Immunofluorescence staining of FFPE tissue following Xenium processing also preserves cellular morphology, allowing the morphological complexity of distinct cell types to be captured and quantitated, especially for glial cells with highly ramified processes. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

Artificial-intelligence (AI) systems for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) increasingly use neuroimaging or spontaneous speech, but reported performance is difficult to interpret across studies because cohorts, endpoints, languages, preprocessing, and validation protocols differ. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

Deep learning classifiers trained on structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are increasingly proposed for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), yet the pipelines that produce these models depend on shared datasets, pre-trained weights, and federated updates that an adversary can poison. 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Free full text links and the Full text may need a subscription label come from Unpaywall, Europe PMC and OpenAlex records of free copies, checked 10 Oct 2026. A study with neither is unknown, not paywalled. Show only studies that are free to read

How the 0–100 score works — and why some entries are capped

This is alzhub's own score. It is not an official metric, not an impact factor, and no journal, publisher or ranking body endorses it. We built it so that a reader who is not a scientist can tell a landmark trial from a conference abstract without having to already know the difference. Every point comes from one of 20 components, all of them printed on the study itself, so you can disagree with our arithmetic rather than having to trust the total.

  • Journal tier up to 10 pts
  • Journal's citation record up to 4 pts
  • Study design up to 12 pts
  • Strength of evidence up to 5 pts
  • Peer-review validation up to 10 pts
  • How recent up to 5 pts
  • Sample size up to 4 pts
  • Effect reported up to 3 pts
  • Studied in people up to 3 pts
  • Randomised / blinded up to 2 pts
  • Times cited up to 7 pts
  • Citations per year up to 5 pts
  • Impact for its field and year up to 6 pts
  • Cited by studies here up to 6 pts
  • Still being cited up to 4 pts
  • Senior author's track record up to 4 pts
  • Institution's track record up to 3 pts
  • Multi-centre collaboration up to 3 pts
  • Indexed in PubMed up to 2 pts
  • Free to read up to 2 pts

Journals are placed in ordered tiers, never given a numeric impact factor — we could not verify current impact factors from a source we control, and an invented one would be worse than none. Tier 1 is the top-tier general journals (NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, Nature, Science, Nature Medicine); tier 2 is the leading specialty journals; tier 3 is every other peer-reviewed journal. A separate part scores how much the journal's own papers are cited, which tells the tier-3 journals apart.

Two rules we don't bend. First, we never fill in a missing value: if a record does not state a sample size or a design, that component scores zero, and if we simply have no data for a part, such as a citation count, that part is left out and the study is scored on the parts we could check. The study card says which. Second, anything that is not a peer-reviewed article is capped at 16/100 and carries a warning chip — so a conference abstract or a company press release can never outrank a peer-reviewed paper, no matter how good it looks.

We rank a rigorous null result — a good trial showing that something does not work — above an early positive finding. Someone deciding whether to buy a supplement is served by that, and the rigour is already counted by the design and journal components.

The score is computed from the published data alone and is reproducible: the same file always yields the same numbers.

See the whole rubric drawn out → — four charts covering all 27,380 studies: how the scores are spread and where the cap bites, which of the 20 components the library is strong and weak on, which subjects rest on stronger evidence, and what kinds of study each subject is actually built from.

What this library is — and isn't

This is a large sample of the Alzheimer's literature, not an exhaustive index of it. It holds 27,380 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (60.6% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.6%), plus smaller pulls from PubMed, Crossref and medRxiv. If a study, a drug, or a finding isn't here, that is not evidence it doesn't exist in the literature — it may simply not have been pulled in yet.

1,032 records (3.8% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 962 of those are preprints posted before any journal review, and the rest are conference abstracts, regulatory notices and reports. Every study card on this page states its status plainly, and the score above is capped for anything that isn't a peer-reviewed article.

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