通过时空对比学习,精准定位脑疾病在时间和空间上的关键连接模式。
BrainSTR: Spatio-Temporal Contrastive Learning for Interpretable Dynamic Brain Network Modeling
- 用自适应分段和注意力机制识别诊断关键脑状态
- 在自闭症、双相障碍等数据中发现显著差异连接子网
- 适合神经影像与临床诊断交叉研究者使用
动态功能连接能捕捉随时间变化的脑状态,提升神经精神疾病诊断与时空可解释性,即定位疾病特征出现的时间和空间位置。但可靠解释面临挑战:诊断信号常微弱且在时间和拓扑上稀疏分布,而噪声波动和非诊断连接普遍存在。为此,我们提出BrainSTR,一种用于可解释动态脑网络建模的时空对比学习框架。BrainSTR通过数据驱动的自适应相位分割模块学习一致的状态边界,利用注意力机制识别具有诊断意义的相位,并在每个相位中使用受二值化、时序平滑性和稀疏性正则化的增量图结构生成器提取疾病相关连接。随后引入一种时空监督对比学习方法,利用与诊断相关的时空模式优化样本间相似性度量,捕获更具判别性的时空特征,从而构建结构良好、语义清晰的表示空间。在自闭症(ASD)、双相障碍(BD)和重度抑郁障碍(MDD)数据集上的实验验证了BrainSTR的有效性,所发现的关键相位和子网络提供了与既有神经影像研究一致的可解释证据。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Dynamic functional connectivity captures time-varying brain states for better neuropsychiatric diagnosis and spatio-temporal interpretability, i.e., identifying when discriminative disease signatures emerge and where they reside in the connectivity topology. Reliable interpretability faces major challenges: diagnostic signals are often subtle and sparsely distributed across both time and topology, while nuisance fluctuations and non-diagnostic connectivities are pervasive. To address these issues, we propose BrainSTR, a spatio-temporal contrastive learning framework for interpretable dynamic brain network modeling. BrainSTR learns state-consistent phase boundaries via a data-driven Adaptive Phase Partition module, identifies diagnostically critical phases with attention, and extracts disease-related connectivity within each phase using an Incremental Graph Structure Generator regularized by binarization, temporal smoothness, and sparsity. Then, we introduce a spatio-temporal supervised contrastive learning approach that leverages diagnosis-relevant spatio-temporal patterns to refine the similarity metric between samples and capture more discriminative spatio-temporal features, thereby constructing a well-structured semantic space for coherent and interpretable representations. Experiments on ASD, BD, and MDD validate the effectiveness of BrainSTR, and the discovered critical phases and subnetworks provide interpretable evidence consistent with prior neuroimaging findings. Our code: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/BrainSTR1.
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