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However, reliable stage-aware classification remains challenging because current methods are still limited in handling weak anatomical boundaries, low-contrast lesions, subtle inter-stage differences, and the semantic gap between neuroimaging features and clinical descriptions. To address these issues, we propose AFCG-Net, a diagnosis-guided and frequency-aware cross-modal network for joint MRI-text diagnosis. The framework consists of three stages: anatomy-guided visual encoding, cross-modal semantic alignment, and gated fusion with anatomical priors. Specifically, ASFG enhances visual representations through multi-scale modeling and low frequency-guided refinement, CASF strengthens the consistency between clinical semantics and imaging features, and AGDF performs anatomy-guided deep fusion to improve both discriminability and interpretability. Experiments on a combined cohort of 4,197 original MRI-text samples, including 2,106 self-collected samples and 2,091 ADNI samples, show that AFCG-Net achieves Precision, Recall, and F-score values of 96.3%, 96.5%, and 95.8%, respectively. The proposed method achieves the best results in the Mild dementia and Moderate dementia categories, while also showing stronger performance in the more challenging Non-dementia and Very Mild dementia categories. 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