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A CNN based framework for classification of Alzheimer’s disease

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In the current decade, advances in health care are attracting widespread interest due to their contributions to people longer surviving and fitter lives. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the commonest neurodegenerative and dementing disease. The monetary value of caring for Alzheimer’s disease patients is involved to rise dramatically. The necessity of having a computer-aided system for early and accurate AD classification becomes crucial. Deep-learning algorithms have notable advantages rather than machine learning methods. Many recent research studies that have used brain MRI scans and convolutional neural networks (CNN) achieved promising results for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Accordingly, this study proposes a CNN based end-to-end framework for AD-classification. The proposed framework achieved 99.6%, 99.8%, and 97.8% classification accuracies on Alzheimer’s disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset for the binary classification of AD and Cognitively Normal (CN). In multi-classification experiments, the proposed framework achieved 97.5% classification accuracy on the ADNI dataset.

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  1. A complete listing of ADNI investigators can be found at: ”http://adni.loni.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/how_to_apply/ADNI_Acknowledgement_List.pdf.”

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Data used in the preparation of this article were obtained from the Alzheimers disease Database Initiative (ADNI) database. A complete listing of ADNI investigators can be found at: http://adni.loni.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/how_to_apply/ADNI_Acknowledgement_List.pdf.

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  1. Computer Engineering Department, Misr Higher Institute for Engineering and Technology, Mansoura, Egypt

    Yousry AbdulAzeem

  2. Information Technology Department, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

    Waleed M. Bahgat

  3. Department of Computer Science and Informatics, Taibah University Al Medina Al Munawara, Medina, Saudi Arabia

    Waleed M. Bahgat & Mahmoud Badawy

  4. Computer and System Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

    Mahmoud Badawy

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AbdulAzeem, Y., Bahgat, W.M. & Badawy, M. A CNN based framework for classification of Alzheimer’s disease. Neural Comput & Applic 33, 10415–10428 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-05799-w

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