构建分层多尺度结构功能耦合模型,提升脑网络整合效果
Hierarchical Multiscale Structure-Function Coupling for Brain Connectome Integration
- 通过原型模块池化学习各模态的多尺度脑区社区
- 跨层级注意力机制捕捉结构与功能连接的深层关联
- 适合神经科学、脑疾病预测及脑网络建模研究者
整合结构连接组(SC)与功能连接组(FC)仍具挑战,因其关系非线性且呈嵌套模块层次。本文提出分层多尺度结构-功能耦合框架,联合学习个体化模块组织与跨层次耦合关系。包含:(i) 原型式模块池化(PMPool),通过选择典型脑区并优化可微分的模块化目标,学习模态特异性多尺度社区;(ii) 基于注意力的分层耦合模块(AHCM),建模同层级与跨层级的SC-FC交互,生成丰富耦合表征;(iii) 耦合引导聚类损失(CgC-Loss),利用耦合信号正则化SC与FC的社区分配,使跨模态交互引导跨层级社区对齐。在四个队列中评估模型在预测脑龄、认知评分和疾病分类上的表现,结果一致优于基线及其他先进方法。消融与敏感性分析验证了关键组件贡献。可视化揭示可解释的差异,表明该框架捕捉到具有生物学意义的结构-功能关系。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Integrating structural and functional connectomes remains challenging because their relationship is non-linear and organized over nested modular hierarchies. We propose a hierarchical multiscale structure-function coupling framework for connectome integration that jointly learns individualized modular organization and hierarchical coupling across structural connectivity (SC) and functional connectivity (FC). The framework includes: (i) Prototype-based Modular Pooling (PMPool), which learns modality-specific multiscale communities by selecting prototypical ROIs and optimizing a differentiable modularity-inspired objective; (ii) an Attention-based Hierarchical Coupling Module (AHCM) that models both within-hierarchy and cross-hierarchy SC-FC interactions to produce enriched hierarchical coupling representations; and (iii) a Coupling-guided Clustering loss (CgC-Loss) that regularizes SC and FC community assignments with coupling signals, allowing cross-modal interactions to shape community alignment across hierarchies. We evaluate the model's performance across four cohorts for predicting brain age, cognitive score, and disease classification. Our model consistently outperforms baselines and other state-of-the-art approaches across three tasks. Ablation and sensitivity analyses verify the contributions of key components. Finally, the visualizations of learned coupling reveal interpretable differences, suggesting that the framework captures biologically meaningful structure-function relationships.
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