Multimodal Ordinal Modeling of Alzheimer's Disease Severity Using Structural MRI and Clinical Data
Researchers developed an attention-enhanced machine learning framework using ordinal regression to automate Alzheimer's disease severity staging by integrating MRI scans with clinical and genetic data. The multimodal ordinal model achieved 97% adjacent-stage accuracy and stronger agreement with clinical assessments than existing approaches, offering a scalable tool for neurodegenerative disease diagnosis.