Clinical impact of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: A review of studies using ADNI data (2023 to June 2025)

Alzheimer's disease (AD) continues to pose a major public health challenge. Since its launch in 2004, the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) has played a pivotal role in advancing the field by providing a comprehensive, open-access, longitudinal dataset that integrates neuroimaging, biomarker, genetic, and clinical data related to AD. We used standard literature search methods to identify ∼1830 publications from 2023 to mid-2025 that used ADNI data or samples. This review highlights key ADNI studies with direct clinical applications. We describe how these have impacted the development and validation of plasma biomarkers, improved clinical trials, assessed AD therapies, and developed methods for diagnosis and prediction using clinical, fluid, and imaging biomarkers. These contributions are underlain by an improved understanding of biological mechanisms of disease progression in AD and highlight ADNI's central role in advancing translational research and accelerating progress toward more effective, individualized care for patients with AD.