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Hu J, Luo J, Xu Z, Liao B, Dong S, Peng B, Hou G. Spatio-temporal learning and explaining for dynamic functional connectivity analysis: Application to depression. J Affect Disord 2024; 364:266-273. [PMID: 39137835 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2024] [Revised: 06/26/2024] [Accepted: 08/09/2024] [Indexed: 08/15/2024]
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BACKGROUND Functional connectivity has been shown to fluctuate over time. The present study aimed to identifying major depressive disorders (MDD) with dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) from resting-state fMRI data, which would be helpful to produce tools of early depression diagnosis and enhance our understanding of depressive etiology. METHODS The resting-state fMRI data of 178 subjects were collected, including 89 MDD and 89 healthy controls. We propose a spatio-temporal learning and explaining framework for dFC analysis. A yet effective spatio-temporal model is developed to classifying MDD from healthy controls with dFCs. The model is a stacking neural network model, which learns network structure information by a multi-layer perceptron based spatial encoder, and learns time-varying patterns by a Transformer based temporal encoder. We propose to explain the spatio-temporal model with a two-stage explanation method of importance feature extracting and disorder-relevant pattern exploring. The layer-wise relevance propagation (LRP) method is introduced to extract the most relevant input features in the model, and the attention mechanism with LRP is applied to extract the important time steps of dFCs. The disorder-relevant functional connections, brain regions, and brain states in the model are further explored and identified. RESULTS We achieved the best classification performance in identifying MDD from healthy controls with dFC data. The top important functional connectivity, brain regions, and dynamic states closely related to MDD have been identified. LIMITATIONS The data preprocessing may affect the classification performance of the model, and this study needs further validation in a larger patient population. CONCLUSIONS The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed spatio-temporal model could effectively classify MDD, and uncover structural and temporal patterns of dFCs in depression.
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- Jinlong Hu
- Guangdong Key Lab of Communication and Computer Network, School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Key Lab of Communication and Computer Network, School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- Neuropsychiatry Imaging Center, Department of Radiology, Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, Shenzhen Mental Health Center, Shenzhen, China
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- College of Mathematics and Informatics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
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- Guangdong Key Lab of Communication and Computer Network, School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Depressive Disorder, Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, Shenzhen Mental Health Center, Shenzhen, China
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- Neuropsychiatry Imaging Center, Department of Radiology, Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, Shenzhen Mental Health Center, Shenzhen, China.
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Xue Y, Xue H, Fang P, Zhu S, Qiao L, An Y. Dynamic functional connections analysis with spectral learning for brain disorder detection. Artif Intell Med 2024; 157:102984. [PMID: 39298922 DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2024.102984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2023] [Revised: 09/04/2024] [Accepted: 09/13/2024] [Indexed: 09/22/2024]
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Dynamic functional connections (dFCs), can reveal neural activities, which provides an insightful way of mining the temporal patterns within the human brain and further detecting brain disorders. However, most existing studies focus on the dFCs estimation to identify brain disorders by shallow temporal features and methods, which cannot capture the inherent temporal patterns of dFCs effectively. To address this problem, this study proposes a novel method, named dynamic functional connections analysis with spectral learning (dCSL), to explore inherently temporal patterns of dFCs and further detect the brain disorders. Concretely, dCSL includes two components, dFCs estimation module and dFCs analysis module. In the former, dFCs are estimated via the sliding window technique. In the latter, the spectral kernel mapping is first constructed by combining the Fourier transform with the non-stationary kernel. Subsequently, the spectral kernel mapping is stacked into a deep kernel network to explore higher-order temporal patterns of dFCs through spectral learning. The proposed dCSL, sharing the benefits of deep architecture and non-stationary kernel, can not only calculate the long-range relationship but also explore the higher-order temporal patterns of dFCs. To evaluate the proposed method, a set of brain disorder classification tasks are conducted on several public datasets. As a result, the proposed dCSL achieves 5% accuracy improvement compared with the widely used approaches for analyzing sequence data, 1.3% accuracy improvement compared with the state-of-the-art methods for dFCs. In addition, the discriminative brain regions are explored in the ASD detection task. The findings in this study are consistent with the clinical performance in ASD.
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- Yanfang Xue
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China; Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Interdisciplinary Applications (Southeast University), Nanjing, 210096, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China; Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Interdisciplinary Applications (Southeast University), Nanjing, 210096, China.
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China; Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Interdisciplinary Applications (Southeast University), Nanjing, 210096, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China; Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Interdisciplinary Applications (Southeast University), Nanjing, 210096, China
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- School of Mathematical Science, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, 252000, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China; Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Interdisciplinary Applications (Southeast University), Nanjing, 210096, China
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Gamgam G, Yıldırım Z, Kabakçıoğlu A, Gurvit H, Demiralp T, Acar B. Siamese Graph Convolutional Network quantifies increasing structure-function discrepancy over the cognitive decline continuum. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2024; 254:108290. [PMID: 38954916 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2024.108290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2023] [Revised: 05/09/2024] [Accepted: 06/16/2024] [Indexed: 07/04/2024]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Alzheimer's disease dementia (ADD) is well known to induce alterations in both structural and functional brain connectivity. However, reported changes in connectivity are mostly limited to global/local network features, which have poor specificity for diagnostic purposes. Following recent advances in machine learning, deep neural networks, particularly Graph Neural Network (GNN) based approaches, have found applications in brain research as well. The majority of existing applications of GNNs employ a single network (uni-modal or structure/function unified), despite the widely accepted view that there is a nontrivial interdependence between the brain's structural connectivity and the neural activity patterns, which is hypothesized to be disrupted in ADD. This disruption is quantified as a discrepancy score by the proposed "structure-function discrepancy learning network" (sfDLN) and its distribution is studied over the spectrum of clinical cognitive decline. The measured discrepancy score is utilized as a diagnostic biomarker and is compared with state-of-the-art diagnostic classifiers. METHODS sfDLN is a GNN with a siamese architecture built on the hypothesis that the mismatch between structural and functional connectivity patterns increases over the cognitive decline spectrum, starting from subjective cognitive impairment (SCI), passing through a mid-stage mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and ending up with ADD. The structural brain connectome (sNET) built using diffusion MRI-based tractography and the novel, sparse (lean) functional brain connectome (ℓNET) built using fMRI are input to sfDLN. The siamese sfDLN is trained to extract connectome representations and a discrepancy (dissimilarity) score that complies with the proposed hypothesis and is blindly tested on an MCI group. RESULTS The sfDLN generated structure-function discrepancy scores show high disparity between ADD and SCI subjects. Leave-one-out experiments of SCI-ADD classification over a cohort of 42 subjects reach 88% accuracy, surpassing state-of-the-art GNN-based classifiers in the literature. Furthermore, a blind assessment over a cohort of 46 MCI subjects confirmed that it captures the intermediary character of the MCI group. GNNExplainer module employed to investigate the anatomical determinants of the observed discrepancy confirms that sfDLN attends to cortical regions neurologically relevant to ADD. CONCLUSION In support of our hypothesis, the harmony between the structural and functional organization of the brain degrades with increasing cognitive decline. This discrepancy, shown to be rooted in brain regions neurologically relevant to ADD, can be quantified by sfDLN and outperforms state-of-the-art GNN-based ADD classification methods when used as a biomarker.
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- Gurur Gamgam
- VAVlab, Department of Electrical And Electronics Eng., Bogazici University, Istanbul, 34342, Turkiye
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- Department of Neuroscience, Aziz Sancar Institute of Experimental Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, 34093, Turkiye
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- Department of Neurology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, 34093, Turkiye
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- Hulusi Behçet Life Sciences Research Lab., Istanbul University, Istanbul, 34093, Turkiye
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- VAVlab, Department of Electrical And Electronics Eng., Bogazici University, Istanbul, 34342, Turkiye.
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Bacon EJ, He D, Achi NAD, Wang L, Li H, Yao-Digba PDZ, Monkam P, Qi S. Neuroimage analysis using artificial intelligence approaches: a systematic review. Med Biol Eng Comput 2024; 62:2599-2627. [PMID: 38664348 DOI: 10.1007/s11517-024-03097-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 04/14/2024] [Indexed: 08/18/2024]
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In the contemporary era, artificial intelligence (AI) has undergone a transformative evolution, exerting a profound influence on neuroimaging data analysis. This development has significantly elevated our comprehension of intricate brain functions. This study investigates the ramifications of employing AI techniques on neuroimaging data, with a specific objective to improve diagnostic capabilities and contribute to the overall progress of the field. A systematic search was conducted in prominent scientific databases, including PubMed, IEEE Xplore, and Scopus, meticulously curating 456 relevant articles on AI-driven neuroimaging analysis spanning from 2013 to 2023. To maintain rigor and credibility, stringent inclusion criteria, quality assessments, and precise data extraction protocols were consistently enforced throughout this review. Following a rigorous selection process, 104 studies were selected for review, focusing on diverse neuroimaging modalities with an emphasis on mental and neurological disorders. Among these, 19.2% addressed mental illness, and 80.7% focused on neurological disorders. It is found that the prevailing clinical tasks are disease classification (58.7%) and lesion segmentation (28.9%), whereas image reconstruction constituted 7.3%, and image regression and prediction tasks represented 9.6%. AI-driven neuroimaging analysis holds tremendous potential, transforming both research and clinical applications. Machine learning and deep learning algorithms outperform traditional methods, reshaping the field significantly.
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- Eric Jacob Bacon
- College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing in Medical Image, Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing in Medical Image, Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
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- College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing in Medical Image, Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
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Wang Q, Wang W, Fang Y, Yap PT, Zhu H, Li HJ, Qiao L, Liu M. Leveraging Brain Modularity Prior for Interpretable Representation Learning of fMRI. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2024; 71:2391-2401. [PMID: 38412079 PMCID: PMC11257815 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2024.3370415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/29/2024]
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Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) can reflect spontaneous neural activities in the brain and is widely used for brain disorder analysis. Previous studies focus on extracting fMRI representations using machine/deep learning methods, but these features typically lack biological interpretability. The human brain exhibits a remarkable modular structure in spontaneous brain functional networks, with each module comprised of functionally interconnected brain regions-of-interest (ROIs). However, existing learning-based methods cannot adequately utilize such brain modularity prior. In this paper, we propose a brain modularity-constrained dynamic representation learning framework for interpretable fMRI analysis, consisting of dynamic graph construction, dynamic graph learning via a novel modularity-constrained graph neural network (MGNN), and prediction and biomarker detection. The designed MGNN is constrained by three core neurocognitive modules (i.e., salience network, central executive network, and default mode network), encouraging ROIs within the same module to share similar representations. To further enhance discriminative ability of learned features, we encourage the MGNN to preserve network topology of input graphs via a graph topology reconstruction constraint. Experimental results on 534 subjects with rs-fMRI scans from two datasets validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The identified discriminative brain ROIs and functional connectivities can be regarded as potential fMRI biomarkers to aid in clinical diagnosis.
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Ji CH, Shin DH, Son YH, Kam TE. Sparse Graph Representation Learning Based on Reinforcement Learning for Personalized Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) Diagnosis. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2024; 28:4842-4853. [PMID: 38683720 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2024.3393625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
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Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) has gained attention as a reliable technique for investigating the intrinsic function patterns of the brain. It facilitates the extraction of functional connectivity networks (FCNs) that capture synchronized activity patterns among regions of interest (ROIs). Analyzing FCNs enables the identification of distinctive connectivity patterns associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). For MCI diagnosis, various sparse representation techniques have been introduced, including statistical- and deep learning-based methods. However, these methods face limitations due to their reliance on supervised learning schemes, which restrict the exploration necessary for probing novel solutions. To overcome such limitation, prior work has incorporated reinforcement learning (RL) to dynamically select ROIs, but effective exploration remains challenging due to the vast search space during training. To tackle this issue, in this study, we propose an advanced RL-based framework that utilizes a divide-and-conquer approach to decompose the FCN construction task into smaller sub-problems in a subject-specific manner, enabling efficient exploration under each sub-problem condition. Additionally, we leverage the learned value function to determine the sparsity level of FCNs, considering individual characteristics of FCNs. We validate the effectiveness of our proposed framework by demonstrating its superior performance in MCI diagnosis on publicly available cohort datasets.
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Dong Q, Cai H, Li Z, Liu J, Hu B. A Multiview Brain Network Transformer Fusing Individualized Information for Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2024; 28:4854-4865. [PMID: 38700974 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2024.3396457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2024]
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Functional connectivity (FC) networks, built from analyses of resting-state magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI), serve as efficacious biomarkers for identifying Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) patients. Given the neurobiological heterogeneity across individuals and the unique presentation of ASD symptoms, the fusion of individualized information into diagnosis becomes essential. However, this aspect is overlooked in most methods. Furthermore, the existing methods typically focus on studying direct pairwise connections between brain ROIs, while disregarding interactions between indirectly connected neighbors. To overcome above challenges, we build common FC and individualized FC by tangent pearson embedding (TP) and common orthogonal basis extraction (COBE) respectively, and present a novel multiview brain transformer (MBT) aimed at effectively fusing common and indivinformation of subjects. MBT is mainly constructed by transformer layers with diffusion kernel (DK), fusion quality-inspired weighting module (FQW), similarity loss and orthonormal clustering fusion readout module (OCFRead). DK transformer can incorporate higher-order random walk methods to capture wider interactions among indirectly connected brain regions. FQW promotes adaptive fusion of features between views, and similarity loss and OCFRead are placed on the last layer to accomplish the ultimate integration of information. In our method, TP, DK and FQW modules all help to model wider connectivity in the brain that make up for the shortcomings of traditional methods. We conducted experiments on the public ABIDE dataset based on AAL and CC200 respectively. Our framework has shown promising results, outperforming state-of-the-art methods on both templates. This suggests its potential as a valuable approach for clinical ASD diagnosis.
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Luo D, Zhao T, Cheng W, Xu D, Han F, Yu W, Liu X, Chen H, Zhang X. Towards Inductive and Efficient Explanations for Graph Neural Networks. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE 2024; 46:5245-5259. [PMID: 38319773 DOI: 10.1109/tpami.2024.3362584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
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Despite recent progress in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), explaining predictions made by GNNs remains a challenging and nascent problem. The leading method mainly considers the local explanations, i.e., important subgraph structure and node features, to interpret why a GNN model makes the prediction for a single instance, e.g. a node or a graph. As a result, the explanation generated is painstakingly customized at the instance level. The unique explanation interpreting each instance independently is not sufficient to provide a global understanding of the learned GNN model, leading to the lack of generalizability and hindering it from being used in the inductive setting. Besides, training the explanation model explaining for each instance is time-consuming for large-scale real-life datasets. In this study, we address these key challenges and propose PGExplainer, a parameterized explainer for GNNs. PGExplainer adopts a deep neural network to parameterize the generation process of explanations, which renders PGExplainer a natural approach to multi-instance explanations. Compared to the existing work, PGExplainer has better generalization ability and can be utilized in an inductive setting without training the model for new instances. Thus, PGExplainer is much more efficient than the leading method with significant speed-up. In addition, the explanation networks can also be utilized as a regularizer to improve the generalization power of existing GNNs when jointly trained with downstream tasks. Experiments on both synthetic and real-life datasets show highly competitive performance with up to 24.7% relative improvement in AUC on explaining graph classification over the leading baseline.
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Lin R, Li H, Lin W, Yang F, Bao X, Pan C, Lai L, Lin W. Whole-genome selection signature differences between Chaohu and Ji'an red ducks. BMC Genomics 2024; 25:522. [PMID: 38802792 PMCID: PMC11131323 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-024-10339-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 04/23/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024] Open
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Assessing the genetic structure of local varieties and understanding their genetic data are crucial for effective management and preservation. However, the genetic differences among local breeds require further explanation. To enhance our understanding of their population structure and genetic diversity, we conducted a genome-wide comparative study of Chaohu and Ji'an Red ducks using genome sequence and restriction site-associated DNA sequencing technology. Our analysis revealed a distinct genetic distinction between the two breeds, leading to divided groups. The phylogenetic tree for Chaohu duck displayed two branches, potentially indicating minimal impact from artificial selection. Additionally, our ROH (runs of homozygosity) analysis revealed that Chaohu ducks had a lower average inbreeding coefficient than Ji'an Red ducks. We identified several genomic regions with high genetic similarity in these indigenous duck breeds. By conducting a selective sweep analysis, we identified 574 candidate genes associated with muscle growth (BMP2, ITGA8, MYLK, and PTCH1), fat deposits (ELOVL1 and HACD2), and pigmentation (ASIP and LOC101797494). These results offer valuable insights for the further enhancement and conservation of Chinese indigenous duck breeds.
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- Ruiyi Lin
- College of Animal Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, People's Republic of China.
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Wang W, Xiao L, Qu G, Calhoun VD, Wang YP, Sun X. Multiview hyperedge-aware hypergraph embedding learning for multisite, multiatlas fMRI based functional connectivity network analysis. Med Image Anal 2024; 94:103144. [PMID: 38518530 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2024.103144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2023] [Revised: 03/17/2024] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 03/24/2024]
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Recently, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) based functional connectivity network (FCN) analysis via graph convolutional networks (GCNs) has shown promise for automated diagnosis of brain diseases by regarding the FCNs as irregular graph-structured data. However, multiview information and site influences of the FCNs in a multisite, multiatlas fMRI scenario have been understudied. In this paper, we propose a Class-consistency and Site-independence Multiview Hyperedge-Aware HyperGraph Embedding Learning (CcSi-MHAHGEL) framework to integrate FCNs constructed on multiple brain atlases in a multisite fMRI study. Specifically, for each subject, we first model brain network as a hypergraph for every brain atlas to characterize high-order relations among multiple vertexes, and then introduce a multiview hyperedge-aware hypergraph convolutional network (HGCN) to extract a multiatlas-based FCN embedding where hyperedge weights are adaptively learned rather than employing the fixed weights precalculated in traditional HGCNs. In addition, we formulate two modules to jointly learn the multiatlas-based FCN embeddings by considering the between-subject associations across classes and sites, respectively, i.e., a class-consistency module to encourage both compactness within every class and separation between classes for promoting discrimination in the embedding space, and a site-independence module to minimize the site dependence of the embeddings for mitigating undesired site influences due to differences in scanning platforms and/or protocols at multiple sites. Finally, the multiatlas-based FCN embeddings are fed into a few fully connected layers followed by the soft-max classifier for diagnosis decision. Extensive experiments on the ABIDE demonstrate the effectiveness of our method for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) identification. Furthermore, our method is interpretable by revealing ASD-relevant brain regions that are biologically significant.
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- Wei Wang
- MoE Key Laboratory of Brain-inspired Intelligent Perception and Cognition, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230052, China
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- MoE Key Laboratory of Brain-inspired Intelligent Perception and Cognition, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230052, China; Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei 230088, China.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
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- Tri-Institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30030, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
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- MoE Key Laboratory of Brain-inspired Intelligent Perception and Cognition, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230052, China; Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei 230088, China
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Lee DJ, Shin DH, Son YH, Han JW, Oh JH, Kim DH, Jeong JH, Kam TE. Spectral Graph Neural Network-Based Multi-Atlas Brain Network Fusion for Major Depressive Disorder Diagnosis. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2024; 28:2967-2978. [PMID: 38363664 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2024.3366662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2024]
Abstract
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) imposes a substantial burden within the healthcare domain, impacting millions of individuals worldwide. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has emerged as a promising tool for the objective diagnosis of MDD, enabling the investigation of functional connectivity patterns in the brain associated with this disorder. However, most existing methods focus on a single brain atlas, which limits their ability to capture the complex, multi-scale nature of functional brain networks. To address these limitations, we propose a novel multi-atlas fusion method that incorporates early and late fusion in a unified framework. Our method introduces the concept of the holistic Functional Connectivity Network (FCN), which captures both intra-atlas relationships within individual atlases and inter-regional relationships between atlases with different brain parcellation scales. This comprehensive representation enables the identification of potential disease-related patterns associated with MDD in the early stage of our framework. Moreover, by decoding the holistic FCN from various perspectives through multiple spectral Graph Convolutional Neural Networks and fusing their results with decision-level ensembles, we further improve the performance of MDD diagnosis. Our approach is easily implemented with minimal modifications to existing model structures and demonstrates a robust performance across different baseline models. Our method, evaluated on public resting-state fMRI datasets, surpasses the current multi-atlas fusion methods, enhancing the accuracy of MDD diagnosis. The proposed novel multi-atlas fusion framework provides a more reliable MDD diagnostic technique. Experimental results show our approach outperforms both single- and multi-atlas-based methods, demonstrating its effectiveness in advancing MDD diagnosis.
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Huang Y, Li Y, Yuan Y, Zhang X, Yan W, Li T, Niu Y, Xu M, Yan T, Li X, Li D, Xiang J, Wang B, Yan T. Beta-informativeness-diffusion multilayer graph embedding for brain network analysis. Front Neurosci 2024; 18:1303741. [PMID: 38525375 PMCID: PMC10957763 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2024.1303741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 03/26/2024] Open
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Brain network analysis provides essential insights into the diagnosis of brain disease. Integrating multiple neuroimaging modalities has been demonstrated to be more effective than using a single modality for brain network analysis. However, a majority of existing brain network analysis methods based on multiple modalities often overlook both complementary information and unique characteristics from various modalities. To tackle this issue, we propose the Beta-Informativeness-Diffusion Multilayer Graph Embedding (BID-MGE) method. The proposed method seamlessly integrates structural connectivity (SC) and functional connectivity (FC) to learn more comprehensive information for diagnosing neuropsychiatric disorders. Specifically, a novel beta distribution mapping function (beta mapping) is utilized to increase vital information and weaken insignificant connections. The refined information helps the diffusion process concentrate on crucial brain regions to capture more discriminative features. To maximize the preservation of the unique characteristics of each modality, we design an optimal scale multilayer brain network, the inter-layer connections of which depend on node informativeness. Then, a multilayer informativeness diffusion is proposed to capture complementary information and unique characteristics from various modalities and generate node representations by incorporating the features of each node with those of their connected nodes. Finally, the node representations are reconfigured using principal component analysis (PCA), and cosine distances are calculated with reference to multiple templates for statistical analysis and classification. We implement the proposed method for brain network analysis of neuropsychiatric disorders. The results indicate that our method effectively identifies crucial brain regions associated with diseases, providing valuable insights into the pathology of the disease, and surpasses other advanced methods in classification performance.
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- Yin Huang
- College of Computer Science and Technology (College of Data Science), Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Computer Science and Technology (College of Data Science), Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Computer Science and Technology (College of Data Science), Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Computer Science and Technology (College of Data Science), Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Computer Science and Technology (College of Data Science), Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China
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- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- College of Computer Science and Technology (College of Data Science), Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China
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- School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- Translational Medicine Research Center, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China
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- Computer Information Engineering Institute, Shanxi Technology and Business College, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Computer Science and Technology (College of Data Science), Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Computer Science and Technology (College of Data Science), Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Computer Science and Technology (College of Data Science), Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China
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- School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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Sunil G, Gowtham S, Bose A, Harish S, Srinivasa G. Graph neural network and machine learning analysis of functional neuroimaging for understanding schizophrenia. BMC Neurosci 2024; 25:2. [PMID: 38166747 PMCID: PMC10759601 DOI: 10.1186/s12868-023-00841-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Graph representational learning can detect topological patterns by leveraging both the network structure as well as nodal features. The basis of our exploration involves the application of graph neural network architectures and machine learning to resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (rs-fMRI) data for the purpose of detecting schizophrenia. Our study uses single-site data to avoid the shortcomings in generalizability of neuroimaging data obtained from multiple sites. RESULTS The performance of our graph neural network models is on par with that of our machine learning models, each of which is trained using 69 graph-theoretical measures computed from functional correlations between various regions of interest (ROI) in a brain graph. Our deep graph convolutional neural network (DGCNN) demonstrates a promising average accuracy score of 0.82 and a sensitivity score of 0.84. CONCLUSIONS This study provides insights into the role of advanced graph theoretical methods and machine learning on fMRI data to detect schizophrenia by harnessing changes in brain functional connectivity. The results of this study demonstrate the capabilities of using both traditional ML techniques as well as graph neural network-based methods to detect schizophrenia using features extracted from fMRI data. The study also proposes two methods to obtain potential biomarkers for the disease, many of which are corroborated by research in this area and can further help in the understanding of schizophrenia as a mental disorder.
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- Gayathri Sunil
- PES Center for Pattern Recognition, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PES University, 100 Feet Ring Road, III Stage BSK, Dwaraka Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560085, India
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- PES Center for Pattern Recognition, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PES University, 100 Feet Ring Road, III Stage BSK, Dwaraka Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560085, India
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- PES Center for Pattern Recognition, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PES University, 100 Feet Ring Road, III Stage BSK, Dwaraka Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560085, India
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- PES Center for Pattern Recognition, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PES University, 100 Feet Ring Road, III Stage BSK, Dwaraka Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560085, India
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- PES Center for Pattern Recognition, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PES University, 100 Feet Ring Road, III Stage BSK, Dwaraka Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560085, India.
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Cai H, Sheng X, Wu G, Hu B, Cheung YM, Chen J. Brain Network Classification for Accurate Detection of Alzheimer's Disease via Manifold Harmonic Discriminant Analysis. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS 2023; PP:10.1109/TNNLS.2023.3301456. [PMID: 37566497 PMCID: PMC10858979 DOI: 10.1109/tnnls.2023.3301456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/13/2023]
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Mounting evidence shows that Alzheimer's disease (AD) manifests the dysfunction of the brain network much earlier before the onset of clinical symptoms, making its early diagnosis possible. Current brain network analyses treat high-dimensional network data as a regular matrix or vector, which destroys the essential network topology, thereby seriously affecting diagnosis accuracy. In this context, harmonic waves provide a solid theoretical background for exploring brain network topology. However, the harmonic waves are originally intended to discover neurological disease propagation patterns in the brain, which makes it difficult to accommodate brain disease diagnosis with high heterogeneity. To address this challenge, this article proposes a network manifold harmonic discriminant analysis (MHDA) method for accurately detecting AD. Each brain network is regarded as an instance drawn on a Stiefel manifold. Every instance is represented by a set of orthonormal eigenvectors (i.e., harmonic waves) derived from its Laplacian matrix, which fully respects the topological structure of the brain network. An MHDA method within the Stiefel space is proposed to identify the group-dependent common harmonic waves, which can be used as group-specific references for downstream analyses. Extensive experiments are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in stratifying cognitively normal (CN) controls, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and AD.
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- Hongmin Cai
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Psychiatry and Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- School of Medical Technology at Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Orlichenko A, Qu G, Su KJ, Liu A, Shen H, Deng HW, Wang YP. Identifiability in Functional Connectivity May Unintentionally Inflate Prediction Results. ARXIV 2023:arXiv:2308.01451v1. [PMID: 37576121 PMCID: PMC10418521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/15/2023]
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Functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) is an invaluable tool in studying cognitive processes in vivo. Many recent studies use functional connectivity (FC), partial correlation connectivity (PC), or fMRI-derived brain networks to predict phenotypes with results that sometimes cannot be replicated. At the same time, FC can be used to identify the same subject from different scans with great accuracy. In this paper, we show a method by which one can unknowingly inflate classification results from 61% accuracy to 86% accuracy by treating longitudinal or contemporaneous scans of the same subject as independent data points. Using the UK Biobank dataset, we find one can achieve the same level of variance explained with 50 training subjects by exploiting identifiability as with 10,000 training subjects without double-dipping. We replicate this effect in four different datasets: the UK Biobank (UKB), the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort (PNC), the Bipolar and Schizophrenia Network for Intermediate Phenotypes (BSNIP), and an OpenNeuro Fibromyalgia dataset (Fibro). The unintentional improvement ranges between 7% and 25% in the four datasets. Additionally, we find that by using dynamic functional connectivity (dFC), one can apply this method even when one is limited to a single scan per subject. One major problem is that features such as ROIs or connectivities that are reported alongside inflated results may confuse future work. This article hopes to shed light on how even minor pipeline anomalies may lead to unexpectedly superb results.
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- Anton Orlichenko
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
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Kan X, Li Z, Cui H, Yu Y, Xu R, Yu S, Zhang Z, Guo Y, Yang C. R-Mixup: Riemannian Mixup for Biological Networks. KDD : PROCEEDINGS. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY & DATA MINING 2023; 2023:1073-1085. [PMID: 38343707 PMCID: PMC10853987 DOI: 10.1145/3580305.3599483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2024]
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Biological networks are commonly used in biomedical and healthcare domains to effectively model the structure of complex biological systems with interactions linking biological entities. However, due to their characteristics of high dimensionality and low sample size, directly applying deep learning models on biological networks usually faces severe overfitting. In this work, we propose R-Mixup, a Mixup-based data augmentation technique that suits the symmetric positive definite (SPD) property of adjacency matrices from biological networks with optimized training efficiency. The interpolation process in R-Mixup leverages the log-Euclidean distance metrics from the Riemannian manifold, effectively addressing the swelling effect and arbitrarily incorrect label issues of vanilla Mixup. We demonstrate the effectiveness of R-Mixup with five real-world biological network datasets on both regression and classification tasks. Besides, we derive a commonly ignored necessary condition for identifying the SPD matrices of biological networks and empirically study its influence on the model performance. The code implementation can be found in Appendix E.
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- Xuan Kan
- Department of Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Pritzker School of Molecular, Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Statistics, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Nerrise F, Zhao Q, Poston KL, Pohl KM, Adeli E. An Explainable Geometric-Weighted Graph Attention Network for Identifying Functional Networks Associated with Gait Impairment. ARXIV 2023:arXiv:2307.13108v1. [PMID: 37547656 PMCID: PMC10402187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/08/2023]
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One of the hallmark symptoms of Parkinson's Disease (PD) is the progressive loss of postural reflexes, which eventually leads to gait difficulties and balance problems. Identifying disruptions in brain function associated with gait impairment could be crucial in better understanding PD motor progression, thus advancing the development of more effective and personalized therapeutics. In this work, we present an explainable, geometric, weighted-graph attention neural network (xGW-GAT) to identify functional networks predictive of the progression of gait difficulties in individuals with PD. xGW-GAT predicts the multi-class gait impairment on the MDS-Unified PD Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS). Our computational- and data-efficient model represents functional connectomes as symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices on a Riemannian manifold to explicitly encode pairwise interactions of entire connectomes, based on which we learn an attention mask yielding individual- and group-level explain-ability. Applied to our resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) dataset of individuals with PD, xGW-GAT identifies functional connectivity patterns associated with gait impairment in PD and offers interpretable explanations of functional subnetworks associated with motor impairment. Our model successfully outperforms several existing methods while simultaneously revealing clinically-relevant connectivity patterns. The source code is available at https://github.com/favour-nerrise/xGW-GAT.
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- Favour Nerrise
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Dept. of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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