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Hence, various approaches have been developed for early AD diagnosis to prevent its further progression. In this paper, we first review other approaches that could be used for the early detection of AD. We then give an overview of our dataset and propose a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture consisting of 7,866,819 parameters. This model comprises three different convolutional branches, each having a different length. Each branch is comprised of different kernel sizes. This model can predict whether a patient is non-demented, mild-demented, or moderately demented with a 99.05% three-class accuracy. 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