跨站点脑网络分析新框架,提升模型泛化能力。
When Brain Networks Travel: Learning Beyond Site

- 分离站点噪声与真实连接,构建跨站点通用脑网络骨架
- 通过轻量时间特征捕捉瞬态神经动态,提升对未知站点的适应性
- 结合群体先验与个体差异,适合多中心脑疾病研究
基于图结构的功能磁共振成像(fMRI)分析在脑网络研究中展现出巨大潜力。然而,现有方法在跨站点分布外(OOD)场景下性能下降,原因在于站点相关混杂因素导致非病理性捷径,且基于时间平均构建的功能连接掩盖了瞬时神经动态,限制了对未见站点的泛化能力。本文提出跨站点OOD鲁棒脑网络框架CORE,首先进行站点感知的混杂因子解耦,消除站点偏差,提取可复现的诊断性连接边构成跨站点群体骨架;随后利用轻量级时间描述符在该骨架上刻画瞬态通路动态,并将骨架边组织为线图以实现可迁移的通路级建模;最后引入先验引导的个体自适应门控机制,融合骨架导出的群体先验同时保留个体连接变异性。在真实世界数据集ABIDE、REST-meta-MDD、SRPBS和ABCD上采用留一站点排除评估的大量实验表明,CORE持续优于现有最优基线,相对提升最高达6.7%。此外,CORE对脑图谱划分变化保持鲁棒,在不同脑分区方案下均维持性能优势。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Graph-based learning on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has shown strong potential for brain network analysis. However, existing methods degrade under cross-site out-of-distribution (OOD) settings because site-conditioned confounders induce non-pathological shortcuts, while functional connectivity constructed by temporal averaging obscures transient neurodynamics, limiting generalization to unseen sites. In this paper, we propose Cross-site OOD Robust brain nEtwork (CORE), a unified framework for brain network learning across unseen sites. CORE first performs site-aware confounder decoupling to mitigate site-conditioned bias and extract a cross-site population scaffold of reproducible diagnostic connectivity edges. It then profiles transient pathway dynamics over this scaffold using lightweight temporal descriptors and organizes scaffold edges into a line graph for transferable pathway-level modeling. Finally, CORE introduces a prior-guided subject-adaptive gating mechanism that leverages scaffold-derived population priors while preserving subject-specific connectivity variability. Extensive experiments under leave-one-site-out evaluation on real-world datasets (ABIDE, REST-meta-MDD, SRPBS, and ABCD) show that CORE consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, with up to 6.7% relative gain. Furthermore, CORE remains robust to atlas variations, maintaining performance gains across different brain parcellation schemes.
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