Medical Xpress July 21, 2025
Matthew Leming, Ph.D., and Hyungsoon Im, Ph.D. of the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, are the co-corresponding authors of a paper published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, “Differential dementia detection from multimodal brain images in a real-world dataset.”
In this interview, the researchers discuss their work.
How would you summarize your study for a lay audience?
Early onset disease detection and close monitoring are currently the best approaches for caring for patients with neurodegenerative diseases.
Current diagnostic AI models have been applied to medical images in high-quality, academic datasets repeatedly and often very successfully. However, medical imaging data in the community in clinical settings is much more complex and heterogeneous. Patient health records contain different imaging qualities and...







