Alzheimer’s Disease MRI Brain Segmentation Using Pythagorean Fuzzy Sets
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Abstract
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a degenerative and ultimately fatal brain disorder for which there is no cure.This neurological condition, with a complex etiology, causes dementia and cognitive decline, making its identification challenging due to the variation in brain MRIs, including differences in size, shape, and CSF flow.While there is no treatment for AD, its progression can be slowed with early diagnosis.Many researchers have employed image processing-based techniques to differentiate between normal and AD-affected patients based on brain images.However, the brain's regions often look super similar, making it tricky to pinpoint specific areas, plus there's always some uncertainty when it comes to extracting the exact regions.There have been various proposals in the literature for fuzzy cmeans and intuitionistic fuzzy c-means (IFCM) approaches to deal with this ambiguity and uncertainty.In contrast, Pythagorean fuzzy sets (PFS) provide a more precise means of verifying membership, making them an effective tool for managing uncertainty.The author analyzed PFS and applied fuzzy c-means to propose Pythagorean fuzzy c-means (PFCM).Additionally, histogram-based initial centroids were used to avoid the local minima problem, which is common in many clustering algorithms.The proposed clustering algorithm demonstrated improved performance, completing execution in less than 1.5 seconds, owing to the incorporation of initial centroids and PFS-based clustering.The proposed method achieved high accuracy rates: 98.64% for white matter (WM), 97.4% for gray matter (GM), and 98.14% for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in detecting brain tissues.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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