ConvNeXt–KAN: a Kolmogorov–Arnold Network head for robust multi-class staging of Alzheimer's disease from brain MRI
Introduction Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder for which accurate, stage-wise classification from structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can support earlier intervention. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) dominate this task, but their classifier heads rely on fixed activation...