arXiv:2604.14837cs.CV2026-04

用改进的脑皮层映射方法,提升阿尔茨海默病早期检测准确率。

Improved Multiscale Structural Mapping with Supervertex Vision Transformer for the Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Neurodegeneration

论文配图:Improved Multiscale Structural Mapping with Supervertex Vision Transformer for the Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Neurodegeneration
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  • 在皮层顶点级融合沟深与曲率信息,增强结构表征
  • 相比原方法,分类性能提升3个百分点,差异更显著
  • 适合做无创阿尔茨海默病筛查,对不同厂家设备兼容性强

阿尔茨海默病(AD)确诊常依赖正电子发射断层扫描(PET)或脑脊液(CSF)检测,成本高且有创。因此,基于结构磁共振成像(MRI)的皮层厚度(CT)等生物标志物被广泛用于非侵入性筛查。多尺度结构映射(MSSM)近期提出,仅通过一次T1加权扫描(T1w)即可整合灰白质对比度(GWCs)与CT。本文在此基础上提出MSSM+,结合表面超顶点映射(SSVM)与超顶点视觉变换器(SV-ViT)。分析了AD患者与认知正常对照组的3D T1w图像。MSSM+在顶点层级引入沟深与皮层曲率信息;SSVM将皮层表面划分为超顶点(表面块),有效表示区域间与区域内空间关系;SV-ViT是一种作用于超顶点的视觉变换器架构,可从表面网格中实现解剖学引导的学习。相比MSSM,MSSM+在AD与CN间识别出更广泛且统计显著的组间差异;在分类任务中,其精确率-召回率曲线下面积比MSSM高3个百分点。跨厂商分析显示,相较于CT、GWCs和MSSM,MSSM+信号变异性更低,分类性能更稳定。结果表明,结合SV-ViT的MSSM+是潜在的无需CSF/PET确认的阿尔茨海默病影像标志物。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Alzheimer's disease (AD) confirmation often relies on positron emission tomography (PET) or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis, which are costly and invasive. Consequently, structural MRI biomarkers such as cortical thickness (CT) are widely used for non-invasive AD screening. Multiscale structural mapping (MSSM) was recently proposed to integrate gray-white matter contrasts (GWCs) with CT from a single T1-weighted MRI (T1w) scan. Building on this framework, we propose MSSM+, together with surface supervertex mapping (SSVM) and a Supervertex Vision Transformer (SV-ViT). 3D T1w images from individuals with AD and cognitively normal (CN) controls were analyzed. MSSM+ extends MSSM by incorporating sulcal depth and cortical curvature at the vertex level. SSVM partitions the cortical surface into supervertices (surface patches) that effectively represent inter- and intra-regional spatial relationships. SV-ViT is a Vision Transformer architecture operating on these supervertices, enabling anatomically informed learning from surface mesh representations. Compared with MSSM, MSSM+ identified more spatially extensive and statistically significant group differences between AD and CN. In AD vs. CN classification, MSSM+ achieved a 3%p higher area under the precision-recall curve than MSSM. Vendor-specific analyses further demonstrated reduced signal variability and consistently improved classification performance across MR manufacturers relative to CT, GWCs, and MSSM. These findings suggest that MSSM+ combined with SV-ViT is a promising MRI-based imaging marker for AD detection prior to CSF/PET confirmation.

阿尔茨海默病结构映射视觉变换器皮层分析

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