A Neurosymbolic Approach for Explainable Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

arXiv:2607.29530 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-08-20 · Read on arXiv

Ranveer Singh, Pranuthi Tenali, Saurabh Mathur, Ameet Soni, Vaishali Phatak, Karla Lynch, Daniel Murman, Matthew Rizzo, Sriraam Natarajan

cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-08-20

Updated: 2026-08-21

Code: https://github.com/s-ranveer/verbal_fluency_alzheimers

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: Identifying reliable Alzheimer's disease (AD) markers typically requires manual, labor-intensive transcription and expert analysis, limiting its scale.

Terminology

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Abstract

Sources

• MedGemma Technical Report
• SLOT: Structuring the Output of Large Language Models
• Synthesizing Visual Concepts as Vision-Language Programs

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