arXiv:2507.13992cs.LG2025-07被引 1

用图神经网络提升脑连接组多中心数据一致性,无需设备信息也能保持结构特征。

Structural Connectome Harmonization Using Deep Learning: The Strength of Graph Neural Networks

  • 设计无元数据依赖的图神经网络框架,直接处理连接组拓扑结构。
  • 图自编码器在保持个体特异性与网络结构上优于传统方法。
  • 适合缺乏扫描仪参数的真实多中心研究,推动疾病生物标志物开发。

神经影像学中,尤其是结构连接组(SC)研究,样本量小限制了阿尔茨海默病和精神分裂症等神经精神疾病的可靠生物标志物发展。尽管已有大规模多中心研究,但因扫描仪差异导致采集偏倚,影响图像一致性与下游分析。现有连接组校正方法如线性回归(LR)、ComBat及深度学习技术常依赖详细元数据或跨站点受试者(TS),或忽略连接组的图结构特性。为此,我们提出一种站点条件化的深度校正框架,在基于人类连接组数据集的模拟场景中测试,不需元数据或TS即可实现跨站点校正。该框架对比三种深度架构:全连接自编码器(AE)、卷积自编码器与图卷积自编码器,均优于高性能的线性回归基线。非图模型在边权重预测和边存在性检测上表现更优,但图自编码器在保留网络拓扑结构与个体指纹识别准确性方面显著领先。尽管线性回归在数值性能上最优,因其需明确建模采集参数,难以应用于真实多中心场景(元数据常缺失)。结果表明模型架构对校正性能至关重要,图基方法特别适合具备结构感知与领域泛化能力的大规模多中心连接组研究。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Small sample sizes in neuroimaging in general, and in structural connectome (SC) studies in particular limit the development of reliable biomarkers for neurological and psychiatric disorders - such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia - by reducing statistical power, reliability, and generalizability. Large-scale multi-site studies have exist, but they have acquisition-related biases due to scanner heterogeneity, compromising imaging consistency and downstream analyses. While existing SC harmonization methods - such as linear regression (LR), ComBat, and deep learning techniques - mitigate these biases, they often rely on detailed metadata, traveling subjects (TS), or overlook the graph-topology of SCs. To address these limitations, we propose a site-conditioned deep harmonization framework that harmonizes SCs across diverse acquisition sites without requiring metadata or TS that we test in a simulated scenario based on the Human Connectome Dataset. Within this framework, we benchmark three deep architectures - a fully connected autoencoder (AE), a convolutional AE, and a graph convolutional AE - against a top-performing LR baseline. While non-graph models excel in edge-weight prediction and edge existence detection, the graph AE demonstrates superior preservation of topological structure and subject-level individuality, as reflected by graph metrics and fingerprinting accuracy, respectively. Although the LR baseline achieves the highest numerical performance by explicitly modeling acquisition parameters, it lacks applicability to real-world multi-site use cases as detailed acquisition metadata is often unavailable. Our results highlight the critical role of model architecture in SC harmonization performance and demonstrate that graph-based approaches are particularly well-suited for structure-aware, domain-generalizable SC harmonization in large-scale multi-site SC studies.

连接组图神经网络多中心研究深度学习

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