Interpretable generalized additive neural network for classifying Alzheimer’s disease stages via brain changes
摘要
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a leading cause of dementia in the elderly, requires accurate and early diagnosis via MRI. This study introduces IGANN-CAD-SBC, an interpretable neural network that classifies AD stages mild, moderate, very mild, and non-demented based on brain changes. The model enhances MRI quality using the Unscented Trainable Kalman filter and applies IGANN for feature extraction and classification. Achieving accuracies up to 99.6% and precision up to 99.8% across all stages, it also delivers high specificity (97.9–99.5%). Compared to models like ADSP-ADSC-FBCMRI and EDAD-BiLSTM-ANN, IGANN-CAD-SBC offers up to 31% higher accuracy, making it a robust and interpretable solution for clinical AD detection.