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Currently, there is no effective cure, and the disease progression impacts patients\u2019 quality of life, often leading to severe symptoms before death. The gradual development of AD symptoms, often mistaken for typical aging, frequently leads to delayed diagnosis. This underscores the critical need for precise, early diagnostic methodologies, as timely intervention plays a crucial role in managing progression. Accordingly, this paper introduces DeepALZNET, a dual-pathway computational framework designed to enhance AD prediction by offering two independent processing pathways: one for structured clinical data and another for unstructured brain MRI scans. The first pathway combines a 1D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with a Random Forest classifier to analyze clinical data, while the second employs a transfer-learning-based VGG19 architecture to detect subtle structural changes in MRI scans. 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