arXiv:2503.02685q-bio.NCcs.CV2025-03被引 2

用自监督模型解析新生儿脑功能网络,构建首个标准化功能图谱。

TReND: Transformer derived features and Regularized NMF for neonatal functional network Delineation

  • 基于变换器与正则化非负矩阵分解,自动提取时空特征。
  • 在三个数据集上实现更连贯的空间结构与更高的功能一致性。
  • 适合研究婴儿脑发育、神经疾病早期标志物的学者使用。

早期人类大脑功能网络(FNs)的精准分割是识别发育障碍生物标志物和理解功能发育的基础。静息态功能磁共振(rs-fMRI)可实现活体功能变化探索,但成人功能网络分割结果无法直接用于新生儿,因网络尚未成熟。目前尚无标准化新生儿功能图谱。为此,我们提出TReND,一种全新且完全自动化的自监督变换器-自编码器框架,结合正则化非负矩阵分解(RNMF),揭示新生儿的功能网络。TReND有效解耦体素级rs-fMRI数据中的时空特征。通过将置信度自适应掩码引入变换器自注意力层,降低噪声影响;自监督解码器作为调节器,优化编码器的潜在嵌入,生成可靠的时间特征。空间一致性方面,融合基于脑表面的测地距离作为空间编码,并结合时间特征的功能连接。TReND聚类方法在稀疏性与平滑性约束下处理这些特征,生成稳健且生物学合理的分割结果。我们在三个不同数据集(模拟数据、dHCP、HCP-YA)上对TReND进行了广泛验证,对比传统特征提取与聚类方法。结果显示,TReND在新生儿功能网络辨识上具有显著优势,空间连续性与功能同质性均更优。我们建立了TReND这一新颖且鲁棒的新生儿功能网络划分框架,其衍生的功能网络可作为健康与疾病状态下围产期人群的新生儿功能图谱。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Precise parcellation of functional networks (FNs) of early developing human brain is the fundamental basis for identifying biomarker of developmental disorders and understanding functional development. Resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) enables in vivo exploration of functional changes, but adult FN parcellations cannot be directly applied to the neonates due to incomplete network maturation. No standardized neonatal functional atlas is currently available. To solve this fundamental issue, we propose TReND, a novel and fully automated self-supervised transformer-autoencoder framework that integrates regularized nonnegative matrix factorization (RNMF) to unveil the FNs in neonates. TReND effectively disentangles spatiotemporal features in voxel-wise rs-fMRI data. The framework integrates confidence-adaptive masks into transformer self-attention layers to mitigate noise influence. A self supervised decoder acts as a regulator to refine the encoder's latent embeddings, which serve as reliable temporal features. For spatial coherence, we incorporate brain surface-based geodesic distances as spatial encodings along with functional connectivity from temporal features. The TReND clustering approach processes these features under sparsity and smoothness constraints, producing robust and biologically plausible parcellations. We extensively validated our TReND framework on three different rs-fMRI datasets: simulated, dHCP and HCP-YA against comparable traditional feature extraction and clustering techniques. Our results demonstrated the superiority of the TReND framework in the delineation of neonate FNs with significantly better spatial contiguity and functional homogeneity. Collectively, we established TReND, a novel and robust framework, for neonatal FN delineation. TReND-derived neonatal FNs could serve as a neonatal functional atlas for perinatal populations in health and disease.

功能网络新生儿自监督图谱构建

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