Predicting conversion of patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's disease using bedside cognitive assessments.

Introduction: Patients diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) often go on to develop dementia, however many do not. Although cognitive tests are widely used in the clinic, there is limited research on their potential to help predict which patients may progress to Alzheimer's disease (AD) from those that do not.

Methods: MCI patients (n = 325) from the longitudinal Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI-2) dataset were tracked across a 5 year period.