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ReviewPsychoradiology2026

Multimodal neuroimaging and AI integration in cognitive disorders: advances, challenges, and future directions for precision medicine.

Mingxi Dang, Bing Liu, Yaojing Chen, Zhanjun Zhang

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Review in Psychoradiology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mingxi DangState Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
Bing LiuState Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2029-5187
Yaojing ChenState Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4418-6890
Zhanjun ZhangState Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7266-4218

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cognitive disorders, with dementia as a primary exemplar, present profound diagnostic and therapeutic challenges due to their complex pathologies and heterogeneous presentations. Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly when applied to multimodal neuroimaging and clinical data, offers a powerful approach to advancing precision medicine in this domain. This comprehensive review first examines foundational AI algorithms, including artificial neural networks for feature extraction, multimodal fusion strategies (e.g. early, intermediate, and late fusion) for data integration, and explainable AI (XAI) techniques to enhance clinical transparency. The core focus is on the application of these multimodal AI frameworks across the dementia care continuum, encompassing improved differential diagnosis, early detection through presymptomatic biomarkers, development of predictive models for disease progression, and optimization of patient stratification for clinical trials. Despite significant advances, persistent challenges remain, including limited generalizability across populations and protocols, data scarcity for non-Alzheimer's dementias and prodromal stages-exacerbated by demographic biases-and barriers to interpretability. We discuss solutions such as federated learning for privacy-preserving data sharing and advanced XAI techniques. Finally, we outline pivotal future directions, including intelligent sensor fusion for discovering novel early biomarkers, hybrid AI architectures combining generative and discriminative models, innovations for handling missing modalities, and robust multicenter data integration frameworks. By synthesizing these advances, this review highlights the role of multimodal AI in advancing precise diagnosis, early prediction, and therapeutic development for neurodegenerative and vascular cognitive disorders, while identifying key translational challenges for precision medicine.

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alzheimer’s diseaseartificial intelligencebiomarker discoverycognitive disordersdifferential diagnosisexplainable AImultimodal neuroimagingprecision medicine

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PMID41884150
PMCPMC13010822

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