<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Alzheimer's Disease |</title><link>https://iborz.org/tags/alzheimers-disease/</link><atom:link href="https://iborz.org/tags/alzheimers-disease/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>Alzheimer's Disease</description><generator>HugoBlox Kit (https://hugoblox.com)</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><image><url>https://iborz.org/media/icon_hu_da05098ef60dc2e7.png</url><title>Alzheimer's Disease</title><link>https://iborz.org/tags/alzheimers-disease/</link></image><item><title>Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) 2026</title><link>https://iborz.org/events/aaic-2026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://iborz.org/events/aaic-2026/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="about"&gt;About&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AAIC 2026 runs July 12 to 15 at ExCeL London, with an online option. I will be there to present recent work and meet collaborators.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presentation details will be posted once the program is finalized.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PET Tracer Classification and the Tau Therapeutic Window</title><link>https://iborz.org/events/mayo-ai-summit-2026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://iborz.org/events/mayo-ai-summit-2026/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="overview"&gt;Overview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I presented two pieces of work at the Mayo Clinic AI Summit (June 4-5, 2026): a podium talk on automated PET tracer classification and a poster on the tau therapeutic window.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="pet-tracer-classification"&gt;PET Tracer Classification&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The classifier reads a brain PET volume and predicts which radiotracer produced it. It uses a 2.5D ConvNeXt backbone and reached a Matthews correlation coefficient of 0.93 across tracer classes. Reliable tracer labels matter for any pipeline that pools amyloid, tau, and FDG scans, so this model removes a manual step that scales poorly across thousands of images.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="tau-therapeutic-window"&gt;Tau Therapeutic Window&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The poster defined the tau therapeutic window, a tau PET SUVR range over which anti-amyloid therapy can plausibly alter the disease course.&lt;/p&gt;
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