Discriminating VCID subgroups: A diffusion MRI multi-model fusion approach

Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) and Alzheimer's disease are predominant diseases among the aging population resulting in decline of various cognitive domains. Diffusion weighted MRI (DW-MRI) has been shown to be a promising aid in the diagnosis of such diseases. However, there are various models of DW-MRI and the interpretation of diffusion metrics depends on the model used in fitting data. Most previous studies are entirely...