用几何神经网络追踪大脑连接状态的动态演化,发现疾病早期迹象。
GeoDynamics: A Geometric State-Space Neural Network for Understanding Brain Dynamics on Riemannian Manifolds

- 在黎曼流形上建模脑功能连接矩阵的演变轨迹
- 捕捉任务相关状态变化及阿尔茨海默病等疾病的早期标志
- 适用于神经科学与人体动作识别的复杂时空建模
状态空间模型(SSMs)已成为解析脑动力学的核心工具,揭示潜在神经状态随时间演化的规律及其对观测信号的影响。尽管深度学习与结构化动力学结合已取得良好拟合效果,但现有方法多将大脑视为松散连接区域或施加过度简化的网络先验,未能体现整体自组织动力系统视角。脑功能连接(FC)在每一时刻形成对称正定(SPD)矩阵,位于曲面黎曼流形而非欧氏空间。追踪这些SPD矩阵的轨迹是理解协同网络支持认知与行为的关键。为此,我们提出GeoDynamics,一种在高维SPD流形上直接追踪潜在脑状态轨迹的几何状态空间神经网络。GeoDynamics将每个连接矩阵嵌入流形感知的循环框架,学习平滑且保持几何特性的状态转移,揭示任务驱动的状态变化及阿尔茨海默病、帕金森病、自闭症的早期标志。此外,在人行动识别基准(UTKinect、Florence、HDM05)上验证了其可扩展性与鲁棒性,证明其在跨领域复杂时空动力学建模中的通用价值。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
State-space models (SSMs) have become a cornerstone for unraveling brain dynamics, revealing how latent neural states evolve over time and give rise to observed signals. By combining the flexibility of deep learning with the principled dynamical structure of SSMs, recent studies have achieved powerful fits to functional neuroimaging data. However, most existing approaches still view the brain as a set of loosely connected regions or impose oversimplified network priors, falling short of a truly holistic and self-organized dynamical system perspective. Brain functional connectivity (FC) at each time point naturally forms a symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix, which resides on a curved Riemannian manifold rather than in Euclidean space. Capturing the trajectories of these SPD matrices is key to understanding how coordinated networks support cognition and behavior. To this end, we introduce GeoDynamics, a geometric state-space neural network that tracks latent brain-state trajectories directly on the high-dimensional SPD manifold. GeoDynamics embeds each connectivity matrix into a manifold-aware recurrent framework, learning smooth and geometry-respecting transitions that reveal task-driven state changes and early markers of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and autism. Beyond neuroscience, we validate GeoDynamics on human action recognition benchmarks (UTKinect, Florence, HDM05), demonstrating its scalability and robustness in modeling complex spatiotemporal dynamics across diverse domains.
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