Chiumento, Francesco
ORCID: 0009-0003-3371-021X, Killeen, Ronan P., Curran, Kathleen M.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0095-9337, O’Connor, Noel E.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4033-9135 and Liu, Mingming
ORCID: 0000-0002-8988-2104
(2026)
A Clinician-Informed Translational Roadmap for PET-Free MRI-Based Amyloid-Beta Assessment in Alzheimer’s Disease.
In: (MIUA) 2026, 20-22 July, 2026, Dublin, Ireland.
Abstract
Amyloid-β (Aβ) confirmation is increasingly important in
early Alzheimer’s disease pathways, but amyloid-PET imaging remains
costly and difficult to scale. Recent PET-guided knowledge distillation
has shown that PET-derived supervision can be transferred to an MRIonly student model for Aβ status prediction, preserving PET-free inference and avoiding non-imaging covariates such as APOE genotype or cognitive scores, which are often unavailable in routine clinical workflows. To support clinical translation beyond binary classification, this
paper presents a clinician-informed translational roadmap outlining three
extensions to an existing PET-guided MRI-only framework: continuous
Centiloid-aware amyloid burden estimation, longitudinal conversion and
prognosis modeling, and region-level interpretability. For each direction,
the proposed output target, clinical use case, required data structure, validation metrics, and major confounders are defined. The proposed extensions define a structured design and evaluation plan for future MRI-only amyloid assessment systems, clarifying how PET-guided MRI models can move from binary screening toward outputs that are interpretable, clinically meaningful, and suitable for prospective validation.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Event Type: | Conference |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Alzheimer’s disease; Amyloid-β; Centiloid; MRI; Knowledge distillation; Translational validation; Radiomics |
| Subjects: | Engineering > Electronics Engineering > Electronic engineering |
| DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Electronic Engineering |
| Published in: | Proceedings of the (MIUA) 2026. . |
| Official URL: | https://www.ucd.ie/medicine/miua2026/ |
| Copyright Information: | Authors |
| ID Code: | 33308 |
| Deposited On: | 17 Aug 2026 14:35 by Gordon Kennedy . Last Modified 17 Aug 2026 14:35 |
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