ReviewPatterns (New York, N.Y.)2023
A systematic review of multimodal brain age studies: Uncovering a divergence between model accuracy and utility.
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- Disentangling Neurodegeneration with Brain Age Gap Prediction Models: A Graph Signal Processing Perspective.ArXiv · 2025Article
- Integration of Genetic Information to Improve Brain Age Gap Estimation Models in the UK Biobank.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Brain-age models with lower age prediction accuracy have higher sensitivity for disease detection.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Mapping Multimodal Risk Factors to Mental Health Outcomes.Nature. Mental health · 2025Article
- Rate of brain aging associates with future executive function in Asian children and older adults.eLife · 2025Article
- Do Transformers and CNNs Learn Different Concepts of Brain Age?Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Temporal autocorrelation is predictive of age-An extensive MEG time-series analysis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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Abstract
Brain aging is a complex, multifaceted process that can be challenging to model in ways that are accurate and clinically useful. One of the most common approaches has been to apply machine learning to neuroimaging data with the goal of predicting age in a data-driven manner. Building on initial brain age studies that were derived solely from T1-weighted scans (i.e., unimodal), recent studies have incorporated features across multiple imaging modalities (i.e., "multimodal"). In this systematic review, we show that unimodal and multimodal models have distinct advantages. Multimodal models are the most accurate and sensitive to differences in chronic brain disorders. In contrast, unimodal models from functional magnetic resonance imaging were most sensitive to differences across a broad array of phenotypes. Altogether, multimodal imaging has provided us valuable insight for improving the accuracy of brain age models, but there is still much untapped potential with regard to achieving widespread clinical utility.
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