| name | hcq-alzheimer-quantum-classification |
| description | Hybrid Classical-Quantum pipeline for Alzheimer's classification — supervised β-VAE + quantum kernels + quantum feature maps |
| category | neuroscience |
| trigger_words | ["HCQ","alzheimer","quantum kernel","β-VAE","quantum SVM","quantum classification"] |
| arxiv_id | 2606.14194 |
Hybrid Classical-Quantum (HCQ) Alzheimer's Classification via Supervised β-VAE and Quantum Kernels
Summary
Two-stage HCQ pipeline for binary AD classification from 3D T1-weighted MRI. Supervised 3D β-VAE compresses volumes to 64D latent code, PLS selects 6 disease-aware components, encoded via ZZ feature map onto 6-qubit register, then quantum kernel SVM. Achieves 72.1% accuracy, 0.799 AUC.
Core Methodology
- Category: cs.CV
- Authors: Tia Tiwari, Vamshi Krishna Kancharla, Neelam Sinha
- arXiv: 2606.14194
Key Concepts
- alzheimer
- quantum kernel
- β-VAE
- quantum SVM
- medical imaging
- hybrid quantum-classical
- quantum feature map
- MRI classification
Activation Triggers
HCQ, alzheimer, quantum kernel, β-VAE, quantum SVM, quantum classification