Sait Alp, Taymaz Akan, Md Shenuarin Bhuiyan, Elizabeth A Disbrow, Steven A Conrad, John A Vanchiere, Christopher G Kevil, Mohammad A N Bhuiyan
Alzheimer's disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disease that mostly affects the elderly, slowly impairs memory, cognition, and daily tasks. AD has long been one of the most debilitating chronic neurological disorders, affecting mostly people over 65. In this study, we investigated the use of Vision Transformer (ViT) for Magnetic Resonance Image processing in the context of AD diagnosis. ViT was utilized to extract features from MRIs, map them to a feature sequence, perform sequence modeling to maintain interdependencies, and classify features using a time series transformer...
April 18, 2024: Scientific Reports