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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. Advanced brain imaging for the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Current opinion in neurology 2023-08-03 Biomarkers

    The purpose is to review the latest advances of brain imaging for the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  2. Psychosocial and Behavioral Outcomes for Persons With Cognitive Impairment and Caregivers Following Amyloid-β PET Scan Disclosure: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2023-07-24 Biomarkers

    Ten papers were identified from 7 studies.

  3. Clinical Effect of Early vs Late Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography in Memory Clinic Patients: The AMYPAD-DPMS Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-06-01 Biomarkers

    Baseline and 3-month visit data were available for 272 participants in arm 1 and 260 in arm 2 (median [IQR] age: 71 [65-77] and 71 [65-77] years; 150/272 male [55%] and 135/260 male [52%]; 122/272 female [45%] and 125/260 female [48%]; median [IQR] education: 12 [10-15] and 13 [10-16] years, respectively).

  4. FDG PET (and MRI) for Monitoring Immunotherapy in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinical nuclear medicine 2023-05-23 Biomarkers

    We question the validity of the evidence for the removal of amyloid in particular as assessed by amyloid PET imaging, believing that what is observed is more likely a large nonspecific amyloid PET signal in the white matter that diminishes during immunotherapy-in line with dose-dependent increases in amyloid-related imaging abnormalities and increased loss of cerebral volume in treated compared with placebo patients.

  5. Revealing Individual Neuroanatomical Heterogeneity in Alzheimer Disease Using Neuroanatomical Normative Modeling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2023-05-01 Genetics

    Regions with Z -scores Results Patients with AD (n = 206) had a median of 12 outlier regions (out of a possible 148), with the highest proportion of outliers (47%) in the parahippocampal gyrus.

  6. Large multi-ethnic genetic analyses of amyloid imaging identify new genes for Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2023-04-26 Biomarkers

    Amyloid PET imaging has been crucial for detecting the accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) deposits in the brain and to study Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  7. [18F]F-DED PET imaging of reactive astrogliosis in neurodegenerative diseases: preclinical proof of concept and first-in-human data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2023-03-11 Biomarkers

    We selected the cerebellum as a pseudo-reference region based on the immunohistochemical comparison of age-matched PS2APP and WT mice.

  8. Multimodal brain age estimates relate to Alzheimer disease biomarkers and cognition in early stages: a cross-sectional observational study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. eLife 2023-01-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Both FC-BAG and S-BAG are elevated in CI participants.

  9. Analysis of Psychological Symptoms Following Disclosure of Amyloid-Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Results to Adults With Subjective Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. JAMA network open 2023-01-03 Biomarkers

    After disclosure, 27 patients with amyloid-positive SCD+ (median [IQR] age, 70 [66-74] years; gender: 14 men [52%]; median [IQR] education: 15 [13 to 17] years, median [IQR] Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE] score, 29 [28 to 30]) had higher median (IQR) IES-R total score (10 [2 to 14] vs 0 [0 to 2]; P Conclusions and relevance The disclosure of a positive amyloid-PET result to patients with SCD+ was associated with a bigger psychological change, yet such change did not reach the threshold for clinical concern.

  10. Brain PET Imaging: Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. PET clinics 2023-01-01 Biomarkers

    Brain PET adds value in diagnosing neurodegenerative disorders, especially frontotemporal dementia (FTD) due to its syndromic presentation that overlaps with a variety of other neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders. 18F-FDG-PET has improved sensitivity and specificity compared with structural MR imaging, with optimal diagnostic results achieved when both techniques are utilized.

  11. Deep learning-based speech analysis for Alzheimer's disease detection: a literature review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-12-14 Digital health tools

    Fifty-two papers were finally retained after screening.

  12. Fast and Accurate Amyloid Brain PET Quantification Without MRI Using Deep Neural Networks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-11-03 Biomarkers

    Quantification results using the proposed deep learning-based method showed stronger correlations with the FreeSurfer estimates than SPM-based SN using MRI did.

  13. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities: An Update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2022-11-02 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) is a term introduced in 2010 to encompass a spectrum of MRI findings observed in patients receiving investigational anti-amyloid beta (Aβ) immunotherapies for Alzheimer disease (AD).

  14. Magnetic Resonance Images Implicate That Glymphatic Alterations Mediate Cognitive Dysfunction in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2022-10-26 Brain scans and imaging

    ALPS-index may provide useful disease progression or treatment biomarkers for patients with AD as an indicator of modulation of glymphatic activity.

  15. Generalizable deep learning model for early Alzheimer's disease detection from structural MRIs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Scientific reports 2022-10-17 Long-term cohort studies

    Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease plays a pivotal role in patient care and clinical trials.

  16. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities in the DIAN-TU-001 Trial of Gantenerumab and Solanezumab: Lessons from a Trial in Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2022-10-13 Biomarkers

    In DIAD, solanezumab was not associated with ARIA.

  17. Data from 17 107 individuals (321 Asian, 635 Black, 829 Hispanic, and 15 322 White) with MCI or dementia and amyloid PET were analyzed between April 2020 and January 2022.

  18. A deep learning model for detection of Alzheimer's disease based on retinal photographs: a retrospective, multicentre case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. The Lancet. Digital health 2022-09-30 Caregiving

    We tested the trained model using five other studies, three of which used PET as a biomarker of significant amyloid β burden (testing the deep learning model between amyloid β positive vs amyloid β negative).

  19. The RSNA QIBA Profile for Amyloid PET as an Imaging Biomarker for Cerebral Amyloid Quantification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-09-22 Biomarkers

    On achieving conformance, sites can justify a claim that brain amyloid burden reflected by the SUVR is measurable to a within-subject coefficient of variation of no more than 1.94% when the same radiopharmaceutical, scanner, acquisition, and analysis protocols are used.

  20. Incidence of Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities in Patients With Alzheimer Disease Treated With Anti-β-Amyloid Immunotherapy: A Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neurology 2022-08-29 Drug development

    The PubMed and Embase databases were searched for clinical trials of anti-Aβ immunotherapy published on or before January 12, 2022.

  21. Microglial Activation and Connectivity in Alzheimer Disease and Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2022-08-25 Brain scans and imaging

    Microglial activation distributes preferentially along highly connected brain regions, similar to tau pathology.

  22. Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using machine learning: a multi-diagnostic, generalizable approach

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-08-03 Digital health tools

    In sum, we present a diagnostic tool for MCI and AD trained using baseline scans and a follow-up diagnosis regardless of progression, which is multi-diagnostic, generalizable across independent data sources and acquisition protocols, and with transparently reported performance.

  23. Longitudinal evaluation of neuroinflammation and oxidative stress in a mouse model of Alzheimer disease using positron emission tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-06-09 Biomarkers

    TSPO and x c - overexpression can be assessed by [ 18 F]DPA-714 and [ 18 F]FSPG, respectively, and correlate with the level of Aβ plaque deposition obtained with a PET amyloid tracer.

  24. A combination model of AD biomarkers revealed by machine learning precisely predicts Alzheimer's dementia: China Aging and Neurodegenerative Initiative (CANDI) study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-06-06 Digital health tools

    These results revealed a universal applicability of the "A/T/N" framework in a Chinese population and established an optimal diagnostic model consisting of cost-effective and non-invasive approaches for diagnosing AD.

  25. 18F-FDG PET Imaging in Neurodegenerative Dementing Disorders: Insights into Subtype Classification, Emerging Disease Categories, and Mixed Dementia with Copathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-06-01 Disease mechanisms

    Each of these subtypes is associated with differential 18 F-FDG PET findings.

  26. The Role of Amyloid PET in Imaging Neurodegenerative Disorders: A Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-06-01 Biomarkers

    Imaging of amyloid deposition using PET has been available in research studies for 2 decades and has been approved for clinical use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the European Medicines Agency, and other regulatory agencies around the world.

  27. Automated Detection of Speech Timing Alterations in Autopsy-Confirmed Nonfluent/Agrammatic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2022-05-27 Digital health tools

    We evaluated 22 persons with nfvPPA (mean age: 67.3 years; 13 female patients) and confirmed underlying 4-repeat tauopathy, 15 persons with semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA; mean age: 66.5 years; 8 female patients), and 10 healthy controls (HCs; 70 years; 5 female patients).

  28. Choroid Plexus Volume and Permeability at Brain MRI within the Alzheimer Disease Clinical Spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Radiology 2022-05-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Among patients with cognitive symptoms, larger choroid plexus volume was associated with severity of cognitive impairment in the Alzheimer disease spectrum.

  29. Brain MRI Analysis for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis Using CNN-Based Feature Extraction and Machine Learning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 2022-04-11 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia and the fifth-leading cause of death among people over the age of 65.

  30. Quantification of amyloid PET for future clinical use: a state-of-the-art review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2022-04-07 Caregiving

    Amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology is one of the earliest detectable brain changes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis.

  31. Attention-Guided Hybrid Network for Dementia Diagnosis With Structural MR Images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. IEEE transactions on cybernetics 2022-04-05 Long-term cohort studies

    Deep-learning methods (especially convolutional neural networks) using structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) data have been successfully applied to computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its prodromal stage [i.e., mild cognitive impairment (MCI)].

  32. A Time-to-Event Exposure-Response Model for Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities Following Administration of Aducanumab to Subjects With Early Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Journal of clinical pharmacology 2022-04-04 Drug development

    Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities with edema (ARIA-E) have been reported in patients with early Alzheimer disease treated with aducanumab.

  33. Assessment of a Plasma Amyloid Probability Score to Estimate Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography Findings Among Adults With Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA network open 2022-04-01 Biomarkers

    These findings suggest that this blood biomarker test could allow for distinguishing individuals with brain amyloid-positive PET findings from individuals with amyloid-negative PET findings and serve as an aid for Alzheimer disease diagnosis.

  34. Artificial intelligence in brain MRI analysis of Alzheimer's disease over the past 12 years: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2022-03-28 Digital health tools

    The synthesized evidence is paramount to developing sophisticated AI approaches to reliably capture and quantify multiple subtle MRI changes in the whole brain that exemplify the complexity and heterogeneity of AD and brain aging.

  35. Rapid Biomarker Screening of Alzheimer's Disease by Interpretable Machine Learning and Graphene-Assisted Raman Spectroscopy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. ACS nano 2022-03-25 Digital health tools

    The study of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, faces challenges in terms of understanding the cause, monitoring the pathogenesis, and developing early diagnoses and effective treatments.

  36. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities With Anti-amyloid Antibodies for the Treatment of Dementia Due to Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2022-03-23 Prevention and risk

    Second-generation anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies are emerging as a viable therapeutic option for individuals with prodromal and mild dementia due to Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  37. Spatial-Temporal Patterns of β-Amyloid Accumulation: A Subtype and Stage Inference Model Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2022-03-15 Biomarkers

    Further analyses to determine clinical utility are warranted.

  38. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities and β-Amyloid-Targeting Antibodies: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-03-01 Genetics

    Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) ε4 genotype was the main risk factor for both ARIA types; ARIA-E incidence was further associated with treatment dose, affecting the 55% of ApoE ε4 carriers in the high-dose aducanumab treatment group.

  39. 18F-THK5351 PET Positivity and Longitudinal Changes in Cognitive Function in β-Amyloid-Negative Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Yonsei medical journal 2022-03-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    The results of the present study suggest that increased 18 F-THK5351 uptake might be a useful predictor of poor prognosis among Aβ- aMCI patients, which might be associated with increased neuroinflammation (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02656498).

  40. Associations of Stages of Objective Memory Impairment With Amyloid PET and Structural MRI: The A4 Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurology 2022-02-23 Biomarkers

    Participants had a mean age of 71.3 (SD 4.6) years; 40.6% were male; and 34.6% were APOE ε4 positive.

  41. Assessing Reactive Astrogliosis with 18F-SMBT-1 Across the Alzheimer Disease Spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-01-27 Brain scans and imaging

    18 F-SMBT-1 yielded high-contrast images at steady state (60-80 min after injection).

  42. First-in-Humans Evaluation of 18F-SMBT-1, a Novel 18F-Labeled Monoamine Oxidase-B PET Tracer for Imaging Reactive Astrogliosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2022-01-27 Brain scans and imaging

    18 F-SMBT-1 showed robust entry into the brain and reversible binding kinetics, with high tracer retention in basal ganglia, intermediate retention in cortical regions, and the lowest retention in cerebellum and white matter, which tightly follows the known regional brain distribution of MAO-B ( R 2 = 0.84).

  43. Amyloid PET: A Questionable Single Primary Surrogate Efficacy Measure on Alzheimer Immunotherapy Trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022-01-01 Biomarkers

    Using amyloid PET imaging as a single primary surrogate efficacy measure in Alzheimer's disease immunotherapy trials, as happened when the FDA granted accelerated approval of aducanumab, is unjustified.

  44. Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities in 2 Phase 3 Studies Evaluating Aducanumab in Patients With Early Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-01-01 Treatments

    Of 3285 included participants, the mean (SD) age was 70.4 (7.45) years; 1706 participants (52%) were female, 2661 (81%) had mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer disease, and 1777 (54%) used symptomatic medications for Alzheimer disease.

  45. Limited Longitudinal Change in Self-reported Spatial Navigation Ability in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2022-01-01 Tau biomarkers

    Subtle changes in objective spatial navigation ability have been observed in the preclinical stage of Alzheimer disease (AD) cross-sectionally and have been found to predict clinical progression.

  46. rPOP: Robust PET-only processing of community acquired heterogeneous amyloid-PET data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. NeuroImage 2021-12-07 Long-term cohort studies

    The reference standard for amyloid-PET quantification requires structural MRI (sMRI) for preprocessing in both multi-site research studies and clinical trials.

  47. Quantitative Brain Positron Emission Tomography in Female 5XFAD Alzheimer Mice: Pathological Features and Sex-Specific Alterations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in medicine 2021-11-26 Biomarkers

    Successful back-translating clinical biomarkers and molecular imaging methods of Alzheimer's disease (AD), including positron emission tomography (PET), are very valuable for the evaluation of new therapeutic strategies and increase the quality of preclinical studies. 18 F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET and 18 F-Florbetaben-PET are clinically established biomarkers capturing two key pathological features of AD.

  48. Astrocyte activation imaging with 11C-acetate and amyloid PET in mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nuclear medicine communications 2021-11-01 Biomarkers

    MTL 11C-acetate SUVR was significantly elevated in MCI compared to cognitively normal participants (P = 0.03; Cohen d = 1.76).

  49. Accumulating evidence demonstrates that metabolic changes in the brain associated with neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial dysfunction play an important role in the pathophysiology of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  50. Diffusion Tensor MRI Structural Connectivity and PET Amyloid Burden in Preclinical Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer Disease: The DIAN Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Radiology 2021-10-12 Biomarkers

    White matter structural connectivity was lower in autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease mutation carriers compared with noncarriers and correlated with estimated years to symptom onset.

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