Accurately diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and its early stages is critical for prompt treatment or potential intervention. To address the overfitting problem brought on by the insufficient training sample size, a three-round learning strategy that combines transfer learning with generative adversarial learning was proposed. This model achieved accuracies of 92.8%, 78.1%, and 76.4% in the classifications of AD versus cognitively normal (CN), AD versus mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and MCI versus CN, respectively. The proposed model avoids overfitting brought on by a paucity of sMRI data and enables the early detection of AD.
