提出可捕捉个体脑活动特异性的流形学习框架,突破传统平均化方法局限。
Mapping minds not averages: a scalable subject-specific manifold learning framework for neuroimaging data
- 基于流形学习建模个体脑活动空间结构,适应有无时间结构的数据
- 在模拟与真实fMRI数据中均优于群体基线,恢复更精准的个体表征
- 适用于精神分裂症等临床研究,可发现具医学意义的脑区异常模式
认知与心理表征被认为存在于高维脑活动中的低维非线性流形上。揭示这些流形对理解个体脑功能差异至关重要,但现有机器学习方法多依赖群体层面的空间配准或假设数据具有时间结构(如事件时间已知)。本文提出一种流形学习框架,能同时捕捉结构化与无时间结构神经影像数据中的个体特异性空间变异。在模拟数据及两个自然主义fMRI数据集(Sherlock和Forrest Gump)上,该框架显著优于群体基线,恢复出更准确、个性化的表征。进一步验证其可扩展性:应用于精神分裂症患者与健康对照的静息态fMRI数据时,模型高效处理大规模数据并稳健泛化至新受试者。所学个体空间图谱揭示临床相关模式——基底节、视觉、听觉及体感区激活增强,而岛叶、下额叶及角回激活减弱。结果表明该框架可有效发掘具有临床意义的个体脑活动特征,为计算神经科学与临床研究提供可扩展的个性化建模工具。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Mental and cognitive representations are believed to reside on low-dimensional, non-linear manifolds embedded within high-dimensional brain activity. Uncovering these manifolds is key to understanding individual differences in brain function, yet most existing machine learning methods either rely on population-level spatial alignment or assume data that is temporally structured, either because data is aligned among subjects or because event timings are known. We introduce a manifold learning framework that can capture subject-specific spatial variations across both structured and temporally unstructured neuroimaging data. On simulated data and two naturalistic fMRI datasets (Sherlock and Forrest Gump), our framework outperforms group-based baselines by recovering more accurate and individualized representations. We further show that the framework scales efficiently to large datasets and generalizes well to new subjects. To test this, we apply the framework to temporally unstructured resting-state fMRI data from individuals with schizophrenia and healthy controls. We further apply our method to a large resting-state fMRI dataset comprising individuals with schizophrenia and controls. In this setting, we demonstrate that the framework scales efficiently to large populations and generalizes robustly to unseen subjects. The learned subject-specific spatial maps our model finds reveal clinically relevant patterns, including increased activation in the basal ganglia, visual, auditory, and somatosensory regions, and decreased activation in the insula, inferior frontal gyrus, and angular gyrus. These findings suggest that our framework can uncover clinically relevant subject-specific brain activity patterns. Our approach thus provides a scalable and individualized framework for modeling brain activity, with applications in computational neuroscience and clinical research.
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