Visual classification of tau‐PET detects four subtypes with different long‐term outcomes
Cecilia Boccalini, Gregory Mathoux, Ines Hristovska, Federica Ribaldi, Débora Elisa Peretti, Annachiara Arnone, Max Scheffler, Giovanni B Frisoni, Oskar Hansson, Jacob W Vogel, Valentina Garibotto · 2025
Read Visual classification of tau‐PET detects four subtypes with different long‐term outcomes by Cecilia Boccalini, Gregory Mathoux, Ines Hristovska, Federica Ribaldi, Débora Elisa Peretti, Annachiara Arnone, Max Scheffler, Giovanni B Frisoni, Oskar Hansson, Jacob W Vogel, Valentina Garibotto (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11714086.txt.
Description
Cecilia Boccalini and co-authors build a visual way to read brain scans in a 2025 Alzheimer's study. The protein tau builds up in the brain in varied patterns across patients. A data driven method had found four spread patterns, from a limbic led form to a side temporal form, each with its own course.
For clinic use, doctors need a way to spot those patterns by eye on a scan. The team built a step by step visual method based on where tau sits in the image. Tests check whether the eye based method finds the same four types, and whether those types still split patients by long term outcome.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Cecilia Boccalini, Gregory Mathoux, Ines Hristovska, Federica Ribaldi, Débora Elisa Peretti, Annachiara Arnone, Max Scheffler, Giovanni B Frisoni, Oskar Hansson, Jacob W Vogel, Valentina Garibotto |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |