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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2025

An explainable and efficient deep learning framework for EEG-based diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.

Waqar Khan, Muhammad Shahbaz Khan, Sultan Noman Qasem, Wad Ghaban, Faisal Saeed, Muhammad Hanif, Jawad Ahmad

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Waqar KhanDepartment of Cybersecurity, Pakistan Navy Engineering College, National University of Sciences and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan.
Muhammad Shahbaz KhanSchool of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Sultan Noman QasemComputer Science Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Wad GhabanApplied College, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
Faisal SaeedCollege of Computing, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Muhammad HanifDepartment of Informatics, School of Business, Örebro Universitet, Örebro, Sweden.
Jawad AhmadCybersecurity Center, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia remains a critical challenge, particularly with traditional machine learning models which often fail to provide transparency in their predictions, reducing user confidence and treatment effectiveness. To address these limitations, this paper introduces an explainable and lightweight deep learning framework comprising temporal convolutional networks and long short-term memory networks that efficiently classifies Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Alzheimer's Disease (AD), and healthy controls using electroencephalogram (EEG) data. Feature engineering has been conducted using modified Relative Band Power (RBP) analysis, leveraging six EEG frequency bands extracted through power spectrum density (PSD) calculations. The model achieves high classification accuracies of 99.7% for binary tasks and 80.34% for multi-class classification. Furthermore, to enhance the transparency and interpretability of the framework, SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) has been utilized as an explainable artificial intelligence technique that provides insights into feature contributions.

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Alzheimer's diseaseEEGexplainable AIfrontotemporal dementialong short-term memorymental disorderstemporal convolutional networksXAI

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