BrainVAE: Exploring the role of white matter BOLD in preclinical Alzheimer disease classification
Yikang Li, Lyuan Xu, Lianrui Zuo, Yukie Chang, Zhaohua Ding, Adam W. Anderson, Kurt G. Schilling, John C. Gore, Yurui Gao, the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
This paper introduces BrainVAE, a transformer-based variational autoencoder, to classify preclinical Alzheimer's disease using white matter BOLD signals and finds it outperforms other models when combining white and gray matter data.
bioRxiv · May 7, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience