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Main Authors: Shaji, Abhijith, Chattopadhyay, Tamoghna, Thomopoulos, Sophia I., Steeg, Greg Ver, Thompson, Paul M., Ambite, Jose-Luis
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21076
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  • Deep learning has been successful in predicting neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Combining multiple imaging modalities, such as T1-weighted (T1) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) scans, can increase diagnostic performance. However, complete multimodal datasets are not always available. We use a conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic model to impute missing DWI scans from T1 scans. We perform extensive experiments to evaluate whether such imputation improves the accuracy of uni-modal and bi-modal deep learning models for 3-way Alzheimer's disease classification-cognitively normal, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease. We observe improvements in several metrics, particularly those sensitive to minority classes, for several imputation configurations.