26-30 July 2026

EMBC 2026

Toronto, Canada
Th.2.4: Alzheimer’s & Neurodegenerative Disease AI II
Thursday, 30 July, 10:15 - 11:45
Location: Room 701A
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Marisa Pesola and Ksenia Pominova
Theme 2: Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing
Thu, 30 Jul, 10:15 - 10:30

Th.2.4.1: PRELIMINARY LONGITUDINAL CHANGES IN POST-STROKE CEREBELLAR MICROSTRUCTURE AND COGNITION REVEALED BY ADVANCED DIFFUSION MRI
Diego Caban-Rivera, Northwestern University; Sebastian Urday, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Katie Taran, Miguel Montero, Rebecca Clements, Molly Bright, Northwestern University; Jordan Grafman, Richard Harvey, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab; Carson Ingo, Northwestern University
Thu, 30 Jul, 10:30 - 10:45

Th.2.4.2: MAPPING FOCAL AND GENERALIZED EFFECTS OF COMMON GENETIC VARIANTS ON HUMAN BRAIN STRUCTURE
Emma Gleave, University of Southern California; Luis Garcia-Marin, Zuriel Ceja, Miguel Renteria, QIMR Berghofer; Tamoghna Chattopadhyay, University of Southern California; Christian Gaser, Jena University Hospital; Priya Rajagopalan, Paul Thompson, University of Southern California
Thu, 30 Jul, 10:45 - 11:00

Th.2.4.3: A Multimodal Fusion Network with Logits-Guided Attention and Similarity-Guided Gated Fusion for Early Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis
Ronglin Zhang, Gai Li, Jiaqiang Li, Nina Cheng, Baiying Lei, Peng Yang, Shenzhen University
Thu, 30 Jul, 11:00 - 11:15

Th.2.4.4: CC-Diff: Class-Conditioned Diffusion-Based Data Balancing for Alzheimer’s Disease MRI Classification
Md Minul Alam, Shahram Latifi, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Thu, 30 Jul, 11:15 - 11:30

Th.2.4.5: EVALUATION OF FOUNDATION MODELS AND CLASS IMBALANCE STRATEGIES FOR AMYLOID PLAQUE SEGMENTATION
Evan Abdollahi, Bayla Breningstall, Michael S. Bienkowski, University of Southern California
Thu, 30 Jul, 11:30 - 11:45

Th.2.4.6: Tractometry-Based Quantification of Along-Tract White-Matter Hemispheric Asymmetry in Alzheimer’s Disease
Bramsh Qamar Chandio, West Virginia University; Yixue Feng, Iyad Ba Gari, Jonathan Davis Alibrando, Sophia Thomopoulos, Julio Villalón-Reina, Kenny Liou, Sunanda Somu, Hannah Yoo, Talia Nir, University of Southern California; Eleftherios Garyfallidis, Indiana University Bloomington; Eileen Luders, University of Auckland; Fang-Cheng Yeh, University of Pittsburgh; Neda Jahanshad, Paul Thompson, University of Southern California