arXiv:2606.02228stat.MLcs.CV2026-06

用贝叶斯元学习预测阿尔茨海默病进展,个性化且更可靠。

Bayesian meta-learning for modeling Alzheimer's disease progression

论文配图:Bayesian meta-learning for modeling Alzheimer's disease progression
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  • 基于贝叶斯元学习,从历史数据动态推断个体疾病分布
  • 在真实数据上长期预测性能优于确定性模型,避免过度自信
  • 适合需要个性化疾病轨迹预测的临床研究与医疗决策

预测阿尔茨海默病患者是轻度还是重度进展对个性化治疗至关重要。传统方法通常需针对每位患者单独建模,但因个体观测数据少而不可行;若忽略个体间相关性,则泛化能力差。相比之下,元学习可无需重训练即可动态预测分布,并建模结果与协变量间的非线性关系。我们提出一种贝叶斯元学习模型,在多个个体上训练,但能根据每个个体的历史数据调整其疾病评分分布预测。该模型在未见个体上无需再训练,计算复杂度随历史观测数线性增长,且在预测长期疾病进展时比确定性模型更不易过度自信。在阿尔茨海默病神经影像计划(ADNI)的真实数据上,本模型性能与单任务模型及确定性元学习器相当,但在长期预测中显著提升。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Predicting whether an individual with Alzheimer's disease will experience mild or severe disease progression is essential for personalized treatment. Typically, practitioners seek to predict the distribution of a discrete disease score, conditional on an individual's current MRI volume and their historical disease trajectory. Classical statistical regression models and single-task neural networks are not well-suited for this purpose because fitting separate models is infeasible (since each individual typically has few observations), while ignoring individual-level correlation leads to poor generalization. Meta-learning, in contrast, provides a natural avenue to dynamically predict distributions without retraining and model nonlinear relationships between the outcome and covariates. Motivated by this, we propose a Bayesian meta-learner that is trained on multiple individuals but tailors the predictive disease score distribution to each individual's historical data. Our model predicts on unseen individuals without retraining, scales linearly with the number of historical observations, and is guaranteed to be less overconfident when predicting long-term disease scores compared to its deterministic counterpart. On real-world data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database, our model achieves performance competitive with both single-task models and deterministic meta-learners, while substantially improving performance when predicting long-term disease progression.

阿尔茨海默病贝叶斯学习元学习个性化预测

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