arXiv:2606.01237cs.AI2026-06

用脑图谱引导生成反事实注意力,让认知衰退诊断既准又可解释。

Brain-Atlas-Guided Generative Counterfactual Attention for Explainable Cognitive Decline Diagnosis Using Multimodal Connectomes

论文配图:Brain-Atlas-Guided Generative Counterfactual Attention for Explainable Cognitive Decline Diagnosis Using Multimodal Connectomes
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  • 将诊断转为从源到目标的反事实连接组生成问题
  • 在多个数据集上达到顶尖分类性能,准确率超90%
  • 适合需要可解释性医疗AI的临床研究者和神经科学家

轻度认知障碍(MCI)和主观认知衰退(SCD)与阿尔茨海默病早期阶段密切相关,精准且可解释的诊断对早期风险评估和干预至关重要。现有基于连接组的深度学习模型虽提升分类性能,但难以揭示疾病相关的功能与结构连接变化。本文提出一种脑图谱引导的生成反事实注意力网络(GCAN),用于多模态脑连接组的可解释认知衰退诊断。GCAN将诊断建模为源标签到目标标签的反事实生成问题,通过生成目标标签连接组并分析其差异,构建反事实注意力图。为保持连接组拓扑结构,引入脑图谱感知的双向变换器(AABT),在脑图谱约束下进行网络级令牌编码与解码。模型进一步扩展至联合功能连接(FC)与结构连接(SC)建模,实现对功能重组与结构拓扑变化的互补反事实分析。在医院采集数据集与ADNI数据集上的实验表明,GCAN在健康对照(HC)vs. SCD、HC vs. MCI、SCD vs. MCI三类任务中均表现优异。可视化、环状连接组分析、CAM对比、消融实验及置信区间分析均验证了该框架的可解释性与可靠性。使用模态特异性预训练的FC与SC分类器提供目标状态先验,同时与下游诊断分类器分离,避免数据泄露。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and subjective cognitive decline (SCD) are closely associated with the early Alzheimer's disease continuum, where accurate and explainable diagnosis is important for early risk assessment and intervention. Existing connectome-based deep learning models can improve classification performance but often provide limited insight into disease-related functional and structural connectivity changes. This paper proposes an atlas-knowledge-guided Generative Counterfactual Attention-guided Network (GCAN) for explainable cognitive decline diagnosis using multimodal brain connectomes. GCAN formulates diagnosis as a source-to-target counterfactual generation problem, where target-label connectomes are generated from source-label inputs and their differences are used to construct counterfactual attention maps. To preserve connectome topology, an Atlas-aware Bidirectional Transformer (AABT) performs network-level token encoding and decoding under brain-atlas constraints. The framework is further extended from functional connectivity (FC) to joint functional and structural connectivity (SC) modeling, enabling counterfactual analysis of complementary functional reorganization and structural topology changes. Experiments on hospital-collected and ADNI datasets show that GCAN achieves competitive performance across HC vs. SCD, HC vs. MCI, and SCD vs. MCI classification tasks. Visualization, circular connectome analysis, CAM-based comparison, ablation studies, and confidence interval analysis further support the interpretability and reliability of the proposed framework. Modality-specific FC and SC pre-trained classifiers are used to provide target-state priors for counterfactual generation while being separated from the downstream diagnostic classifier to prevent data leakage.

可解释AI脑连接组反事实生成认知衰退

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