arXiv:2605.13933cs.LGcs.AI2026-05

用新方法自动分离脑连接组扫描差异,提升数据分析准确性。

Unsupervised learning of acquisition variability in structural connectomes via hybrid latent space modeling

论文配图:Unsupervised learning of acquisition variability in structural connectomes via hybrid latent space modeling
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  • 通过架构设计自适应调节离散与连续隐变量,无需人工调参。
  • 在7416个连接组数据上,站点区分准确率达ARI=0.53,显著优于基线。
  • 适合研究多中心脑影像数据的学者,尤其关注扫描差异影响者。

不同站点、扫描仪和协议的dMRI采集差异引入了结构连接组分析的变异。为应对这一问题,我们提出一种无监督框架,通过架构级退火机制,使编码器输出在解码前逐步调整,实现离散与连续隐变量的自适应平衡,避免传统方法需手动设定容量的问题。我们构建了一个包含7,416个结构连接组的数据集,涵盖2至102岁人群,来自13项研究及25种采集参数组合,其中5,900例认知正常,877例轻度认知障碍(MCI),639例阿尔茨海默病(AD)。实验对比标准VAE、PCA+k-means及仅通过损失函数退火的混合模型,结果表明,采用架构退火的联合-VAE在站点识别上表现更优(ARI=0.53,p<0.05)。该方法通过联合建模连续与类别结构,有效捕捉扫描仪与协议差异,为无监督分离采集效应提供了新路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Acquisition differences across sites, scanners, and protocols in dMRI introduce variability that complicates structural connectome analysis. This motivates deep learning models that can represent high-dimensional connectomes in a low-dimensional space while explicitly separating acquisition-related effects from biological variation. Conventional dimensionality reduction methods model all variance as continuous, so acquisition effects often get absorbed into a continuous latent space. Recent hybrid latent-space models combine discrete and continuous components to address this, but typically require manual capacity tuning to ensure the discrete component captures the intended variability. We introduce an unsupervised framework that removes this manual tuning by architecturally annealing encoder outputs before decoding, allowing the model to adaptively balance discrete and continuous latent variables during training. To evaluate it, we curated a dataset of N=7,416 structural connectomes derived from dMRI, spanning ages 2 to 102 and 13 studies with 25 unique acquisition-parameter combinations. Of these, 5,900 are cognitively unimpaired, 877 have mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and 639 have Alzheimer's disease (AD). We compare against a standard VAE, PCA with k-means clustering, and hybrid models that anneal only through the loss function. Our architectural annealing produces stronger site learning (ARI=0.53, p<0.05) than these baselines. Results show that a hybrid continuous-discrete latent space, with architectural rather than loss-based annealing, provides a useful unsupervised mechanism for capturing acquisition variability in dMRI: by jointly modeling smooth and categorical structure, the Joint-VAE recovers clusters aligned with scanner and protocol differences.

脑连接组无监督学习dMRI隐变量建模

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