arXiv:2511.20154cs.CV2025-11

用流形空间建模不规则采样的脑影像数据,提升阿尔茨海默病进展预测精度。

Alzheimers Disease Progression Prediction Based on Manifold Mapping of Irregularly Sampled Longitudinal Data

  • 将sMRI特征映射到流形空间,保留疾病演进的内在几何结构。
  • 结合时间感知微分方程与注意力门控机制,精准捕捉不规则时间点的演化轨迹。
  • 在多数据集上表现稳定,适合临床实际中缺失数据频繁的场景。

临床检查的不确定性常导致纵向影像数据采样不规则,给疾病进展建模带来挑战。现有基于影像的预测模型多在欧氏空间运行,假设数据为平坦表示,难以充分捕捉不规则采样纵向图像的内在连续性与非线性几何结构。为解决从不规则采样结构磁共振成像(sMRI)数据中建模阿尔茨海默病(AD)进展的问题,我们提出一种黎曼流形映射框架,包括时间感知的流形神经常微分方程(TNODE)和基于注意力的黎曼门控循环单元(ARGRU)。该方法首先将高维sMRI特征投影至流形空间以保持疾病演进的内在几何特性;在此基础上,时间感知的神经常微分方程建模观测间潜在状态的连续演化,而注意力驱动的黎曼门控单元则自适应融合历史与当前信息以应对不规则时间间隔。该联合设计提升了时间一致性,实现了在不规则采样下的鲁棒AD轨迹预测。实验表明,所提方法在疾病状态预测与认知评分回归任务中持续优于现有先进模型。消融实验验证了各模块贡献,凸显其互补性。模型在不同序列长度与缺失率下均表现稳定,具备强时间泛化能力。跨数据集验证进一步确认其在多样临床环境中的鲁棒性与适用性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The uncertainty of clinical examinations frequently leads to irregular observation intervals in longitudinal imaging data, posing challenges for modeling disease progression.Most existing imaging-based disease prediction models operate in Euclidean space, which assumes a flat representation of data and fails to fully capture the intrinsic continuity and nonlinear geometric structure of irregularly sampled longitudinal images. To address the challenge of modeling Alzheimers disease (AD) progression from irregularly sampled longitudinal structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (sMRI) data, we propose a Riemannian manifold mapping, a Time-aware manifold Neural ordinary differential equation, and an Attention-based riemannian Gated recurrent unit (R-TNAG) framework. Our approach first projects features extracted from high-dimensional sMRI into a manifold space to preserve the intrinsic geometry of disease progression. On this representation, a time-aware Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (TNODE) models the continuous evolution of latent states between observations, while an Attention-based Riemannian Gated Recurrent Unit (ARGRU) adaptively integrates historical and current information to handle irregular intervals. This joint design improves temporal consistency and yields robust AD trajectory prediction under irregular sampling.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art models in both disease status prediction and cognitive score regression. Ablation studies verify the contributions of each module, highlighting their complementary roles in enhancing predictive accuracy. Moreover, the model exhibits stable performance across varying sequence lengths and missing data rates, indicating strong temporal generalizability. Cross-dataset validation further confirms its robustness and applicability in diverse clinical settings.

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