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  1. Diagnostic accuracy of remote self-administered digital cognitive assessment by clinical diagnosis and Alzheimer's disease PET imaging biomarkers 2026-09-25
  2. Multi-scale 3D CNN with imbalance-aware training for structural MRI-based six-class Alzheimer disease staging 2026-09-22
  3. T1 mapping in Alzheimer’s disease: a quantitative MRI study with amyloid-PET correlation 2026-09-21

Studies

842 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1983 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 83
  • Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 42
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 34
  • NeuroImage 31
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 30

283 journals in all.

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  1. Automated quantification of 18F-flutemetamol PET activity for categorizing scans as negative or positive for brain amyloid: concordance with visual image reads

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2014-08-21 Brain scans and imaging

    The derived threshold was used to categorize the 172 scans in the test cohort as negative or positive, and results were compared with categorization using visual assessment.

  2. The preclinical Alzheimer cognitive composite: measuring amyloid-related decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-08-01 Genetics

    In ADNI, Aβ-positive participants showed more decline than did Aβ-negative participants with regard to the ADCS-PACC score at 24 months (mean [SE] difference, -1.239 [0.522] [95% CI, -2.263 to -0.215]; P = .02).

  3. Amyloid PET/MRI in the differential diagnosis of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Clinical nuclear medicine 2014-06-01 Biomarkers

    The potential of brain imaging has grown rapidly with new modalities, hybrid combinations of existing modalities, and novel metabolic tracers.

  4. Disease progression model for Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's subjects from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment 2014-05-24 Long-term cohort studies

    The objective of this analysis was to develop a nonlinear disease progression model, using an expanded set of covariates that captures the longitudinal Clinical Dementia Rating Scale-Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB) scores.

  5. Molecular imaging of Alzheimer disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2014-02-06 Biomarkers

    Development of molecular imaging agents for fibrillar β-amyloid positron-emission tomography during the past decade has brought molecular imaging of Alzheimer disease pathology into the spotlight.

  6. Abnormal amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations of intrinsic brain activity in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    We used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (ALFF) of intrinsic brain activity in 23 patients with moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 27 age- and gender-matched healthy controls.

  7. Brain differences in infants at differential genetic risk for late-onset Alzheimer disease: a cross-sectional imaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-01-01 Genetics

    Infant ε4 carriers had lower MWF and GMV measurements than noncarriers in precuneus, posterior/middle cingulate, lateral temporal, and medial occipitotemporal regions, areas preferentially affected by AD, and greater MWF and GMV measurements in extensive frontal regions and measurements were also significant in the subset of 2- to 6-month-old infants (MWF differences, P Conclusions and relevance While our findings should be considered preliminary, this study demonstrates some of the earliest brain changes associated with the genetic predisposition to AD.

  8. Practical utility of amyloid and FDG-PET in an academic dementia center

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2013-12-18 Biomarkers

    Concordance between scan results and baseline diagnosis was high (PiB 84%, FDG 82%).

  9. Predicting Alzheimer disease with β-amyloid imaging: results from the Australian imaging, biomarkers, and lifestyle study of ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2013-12-01 Prevention and risk

    Subtle memory impairment with a positive β-amyloid scan identifies healthy individuals at high risk for MCI or AD.

  10. Reduced FDG-PET brain metabolism and executive function predict clinical progression in elderly healthy subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2013-11-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Brain changes reminiscent of Alzheimer disease (AD) have been previously reported in a substantial portion of elderly cognitive healthy (HC) subjects.

  11. Connected speech as a marker of disease progression in autopsy-proven Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2013-10-18 Digital health tools

    Previous studies from our group have shown that language changes may be reflected in connected speech production in the earliest stages of typical Alzheimer's disease.

  12. Amyloid-first and neurodegeneration-first profiles characterize incident amyloid PET positivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2013-10-16 Biomarkers

    The incidence of amyloid PET positivity is approximately 13% per year among CN participants over age 70 sampled from a population-based cohort.

  13. Integrative EEG biomarkers predict progression to Alzheimer's disease at the MCI stage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2013-10-03 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating disorder of increasing prevalence in modern society.

  14. The pattern of atrophy in familial Alzheimer disease: volumetric MRI results from the DIAN study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2013-09-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Atrophy in FAD is observed early, both in areas commonly associated with sporadic Alzheimer disease and also in the putamen and thalamus, 2 regions associated with early amyloid deposition in FAD mutation carriers.

  15. Impaired functional connectivity of the thalamus in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: a resting-state fMRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2013-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Our results revealed disease severity-related alterations of the thalamo-default mode network and thalamocortical connectivity in AD and MCI patients.

  16. Amyloid imaging: the court of public opinion

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurology 2013-08-21 Biomarkers

    Human amyloid imaging is one of the great recent translational medicine stories.

  17. Longitudinal amyloid imaging using 11C-PiB: methodologic considerations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2013-08-12 Brain scans and imaging

    SUVr(60-90) and SUVr(40-60) overestimated binding with 13% and 10%, respectively, compared with RPM2.

  18. Brain imaging and cognitive predictors of stroke and Alzheimer disease in the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Stroke 2013-08-06 Long-term cohort studies

    Exposure to vascular risk factors has a gradual deleterious effect on brain MRI and cognitive measures.

  19. Neuroimaging predictors of brain amyloidosis in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2013-08-01 Biomarkers

    As one of the first attempts to use an imaging technique that does not require amyloid-specific radioligands for identification of individuals with brain amyloidosis, our findings could lead to development of multidisciplinary/multimodality brain amyloidosis biomarkers that are reliable, minimally invasive, and widely available.

  20. Impaired default network functional connectivity in autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2013-07-24 Brain scans and imaging

    These findings suggest that DMN fcMRI may prove useful as a biomarker across a wide spectrum of disease, and support the feasibility of DMN fcMRI as a secondary endpoint in upcoming multicenter clinical trials in Alzheimer disease.

  21. Regional cortical thinning predicts worsening apathy and hallucinations across the Alzheimer disease spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2013-07-24 Tau biomarkers

    Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies.

  22. ³H-deprenyl and ³H-PIB autoradiography show different laminar distributions of astroglia and fibrillar β-amyloid in Alzheimer brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2013-07-23 Biomarkers

    Astrocytosis shows a distinct regional pattern in AD brain compared to fibrillar Aβ, suggesting that different types of astrocytes may be associated with the pathophysiological processes in AD.

  23. Longitudinal amyloid imaging in mouse brain with 11C-PIB: comparison of APP23, Tg2576, and APPswe-PS1dE9 mouse models of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2013-07-05 Brain scans and imaging

    The results suggest that (11)C-PIB binding to Aβ deposits in transgenic mouse brain is highly dependent on the AD model and the structure of its Aβ plaques.

  24. Amyloid PET Imaging in Lewy body disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2013-07-03 Biomarkers

    Lewy body (LB) disorders, including Parkinson disease (PD), Parkinson disease dementia (PDD), and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), are the second most common type of neurodegenerative dementia.

  25. Amyloid PET imaging is a novel diagnostic test that can detect in living humans one of the two defining pathologic lesions of Alzheimer disease, amyloid-β deposition in the brain.

  26. Novel white matter tract integrity metrics sensitive to Alzheimer disease progression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2013-06-13 Mild cognitive impairment

    With tract-based spatial statistics and region-of-interest analyses, increased diffusivity in the extra-axonal space (extra-axonal axial and radial diffusivities) in several white matter tracts sensitively and accurately discriminated healthy controls from those with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve = 0.82-0.95), while widespread decreased axonal water fraction discriminated amnestic mild cognitive impairment from Alzheimer disease (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve = 0.84).

  27. Update on appropriate use criteria for amyloid PET imaging: dementia experts, mild cognitive impairment, and education

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2013-06-10 Biomarkers

    Amyloid PET imaging is a novel diagnostic test that can detect in living humans one of the two defining pathologic lesions of Alzheimer disease, amyloid-β deposition in the brain.

  28. Robust automated detection of microstructural white matter degeneration in Alzheimer's disease using machine learning classification of multicenter DTI data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. PloS one 2013-05-31 Digital health tools

    Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) based assessment of white matter fiber tract integrity can support the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  29. Automated analysis of FDG PET as a tool for single-subject probabilistic prediction and detection of Alzheimer's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2013-05-29 Long-term cohort studies

    The subject groups for model derivation comprised 80 healthy subjects (HS), 36 patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who converted to AD dementia within 18 months, 85 non-converter MCI patients who did not convert within 24 months, and 67 AD dementia patients with baseline FDG PET scan were recruited from the AD Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database.

  30. Arterial spin labeled MRI in prodromal Alzheimer's disease: A multi-site study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2013-04-30 Long-term cohort studies

    We examined differences in cerebral blood flow (CBF) measured by Arterial Spin Labeled perfusion MRI (ASL MRI) across the continuum from cognitively normal (CN) older adults to mild Alzheimer's Disease (AD) using data from the multi-site Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI).

  31. Subscale validation of the neuropsychiatric inventory questionnaire: comparison of Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative and national Alzheimer's coordinating center cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2013-04-18 Long-term cohort studies

    Neuropsychiatric symptoms are prevalent in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD) and commonly measured using the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI).

  32. Head-to-head comparison of 11C-PiB and 18F-AZD4694 (NAV4694) for β-amyloid imaging in aging and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2013-04-10 Brain scans and imaging

    (18)F-AZD4694 showed reversible binding kinetics similar to (11)C-PiB, reaching an apparent steady state at 50 min after injection.

  33. Amyloid PET in clinical practice: Its place in the multidimensional space of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2013-04-06 Biomarkers

    Amyloid imaging is currently introduced to the market for clinical use.

  34. Magnetic resonance imaging evidence for presymptomatic change in thalamus and caudate in familial Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2013-03-28 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Amyloid imaging studies of presymptomatic familial Alzheimer's disease have revealed the striatum and thalamus to be the earliest sites of amyloid deposition.

  35. Brain amyloid imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine technology 2013-02-08 Brain scans and imaging

    Imaging of brain β-amyloid plaques with (18)F-labeled tracers for PET will likely be available in clinical practice to assist the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  36. Relevance of magnetic resonance imaging for early detection and diagnosis of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Medical clinics of North America 2013-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    There is no evidence for individual risk prediction and even less for specific treatments.

  37. Impaired long distance functional connectivity and weighted network architecture in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2013-01-11 Mild cognitive impairment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is increasingly recognized as a disconnection syndrome, which leads to cognitive impairment due to the disruption of functional activity across large networks or systems of interconnected brain regions.

  38. Appropriate use criteria for amyloid PET: a report of the Amyloid Imaging Task Force, the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, and the Alzheimer's Association

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2013-01-01 Biomarkers

    Positron emission tomography (PET) of brain amyloid b is a technology that is becoming more available, but its clinical utility in medical practice requires careful definition.

  39. Brain microstructure reveals early abnormalities more than two years prior to clinical progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2013-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Diffusion imaging is a promising marker of microstructural damage in neurodegenerative disorders, but interpretation of its relationship with underlying neuropathology can be complex.

  40. Entorhinal cortex thickness predicts cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2013-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) based on non-invasive methods are highly desirable for diagnosis, disease progression, and monitoring therapeutics.

  41. Potential impact of amyloid imaging on diagnosis and intended management in patients with progressive cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2013-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Florbetapir F18 has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for in vivo assessment of amyloid pathology in patients undergoing evaluation for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  42. Molecular imaging of microglial activation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. PloS one 2012-12-31 Inflammation and the immune system

    There is growing evidence of activated microglia and inflammatory processes in the cerebral cortex in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

  43. Brain size and the compensation of Alzheimer's disease symptoms: a longitudinal cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2012-12-08 Long-term cohort studies

    Greater intracranial volume (ICV) has been associated with less severe Alzheimer's disease (AD) symptoms at a given level of cerebral pathology.

  44. Confirmatory factor analysis of the ADNI Neuropsychological Battery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Brain imaging and behavior 2012-12-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is a large multi-center study designed to develop optimized methods for acquiring longitudinal neuroimaging, cognitive, and biomarker measures of AD progression in a large cohort of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment, and healthy controls.

  45. Development and assessment of a composite score for memory in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Brain imaging and behavior 2012-12-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We sought to develop and evaluate a composite memory score from the neuropsychological battery used in the Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI).

  46. Regional white matter hyperintensity volume, not hippocampal atrophy, predicts incident Alzheimer disease in the community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2012-12-01 Caregiving

    The findings highlight the regional specificity of the association of WMHs with AD.

  47. Amyloid-β Imaging with Pittsburgh Compound B and Florbetapir: Comparing Radiotracers and Quantification Methods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2012-11-19 Brain scans and imaging

    PiB and florbetapir retention ratios were strongly associated in the same individuals, and this relationship was consistent across several data analysis methods, despite scan-rescan intervals of more than a year.

  48. Impact of molecular imaging on the diagnostic process in a memory clinic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2012-11-16 Mild cognitive impairment

    [(11)C]PIB scans were positive in 40 of 66 (61%) patients with a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), 5 of 18 (28%) patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), 4 of 5 (80%) patients with Lewy body dementia, and 3 of 10 (30%) patients with other dementias. [(18)F]FDG uptake patterns matched the clinical diagnosis in 38 of 66 (58%) of AD patients, and in 6 of 18 (33%) FTD patients.

  49. Meta-analysis based SVM classification enables accurate detection of Alzheimer's disease across different clinical centers using FDG-PET and MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Psychiatry research 2012-11-10 Long-term cohort studies

    The application of support vector machine classification (SVM) to combined information from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and [F18]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) has been shown to improve detection and differentiation of Alzheimer's disease dementia (AD) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

  50. A direct morphometric comparison of five labeling protocols for multi-atlas driven automatic segmentation of the hippocampus in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. NeuroImage 2012-11-07 Long-term cohort studies

    Hippocampal volumetry derived from structural MRI is increasingly used to delineate regions of interest for functional measurements, assess efficacy in therapeutic trials of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and has been endorsed by the new AD diagnostic guidelines as a radiological marker of disease progression.

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