用脑龄原型网络实现可解释的脑健康异常检测
EVA-Net: Interpretable Anomaly Detection for Brain Health via Learning Continuous Aging Prototypes from One-Class EEG Cohorts
- 通过连续脑龄原型学习健康群体的正常演化轨迹
- 在1297名健康人上训练,检测出27名患者的显著脑龄偏差
- 适合关注可解释性医疗模型的临床研究者使用
脑龄是脑健康的关键指标。尽管脑电图(EEG)是这一任务的实用工具,但现有模型难以应对医学数据不完美带来的挑战,例如仅从仅有健康个体的弱监督队列中学习‘正常’基线。这是识别疾病的典型异常检测任务,但标准模型常为黑箱且缺乏可解释性结构。本文提出EVA-Net,将脑龄建模为可解释的异常检测问题。EVA-Net采用高效的稀疏注意力Transformer处理长时序EEG信号;为应对数据噪声与变异性,引入变分信息瓶颈学习鲁棒压缩表示;为提升可解释性,该表示被对齐至连续原型网络,显式学习正常健康老化流形。在1297名健康受试者上训练后,EVA-Net达到当前最优性能。我们在一个包含27名轻度认知障碍(MCI)和阿尔茨海默病(AD)患者的新队列上验证其异常检测能力,结果显示该病理组脑龄差距显著增大,并出现一种新型原型对齐误差,证实其偏离健康流形。EVA-Net为利用不完美医疗数据构建可解释医疗智能提供了新框架。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The brain age is a key indicator of brain health. While electroencephalography (EEG) is a practical tool for this task, existing models struggle with the common challenge of imperfect medical data, such as learning a ``normal'' baseline from weakly supervised, healthy-only cohorts. This is a critical anomaly detection task for identifying disease, but standard models are often black boxes lacking an interpretable structure. We propose EVA-Net, a novel framework that recasts brain age as an interpretable anomaly detection problem. EVA-Net uses an efficient, sparsified-attention Transformer to model long EEG sequences. To handle noise and variability in imperfect data, it employs a Variational Information Bottleneck to learn a robust, compressed representation. For interpretability, this representation is aligned to a continuous prototype network that explicitly learns the normative healthy aging manifold. Trained on 1297 healthy subjects, EVA-Net achieves state-of-the-art accuracy. We validated its anomaly detection capabilities on an unseen cohort of 27 MCI and AD patients. This pathological group showed significantly higher brain-age gaps and a novel Prototype Alignment Error, confirming their deviation from the healthy manifold. EVA-Net provides an interpretable framework for healthcare intelligence using imperfect medical data.
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