基于fMRI的阿尔茨海默病分类,自适应发现脑功能模块并引导连接优化。
MPP-GNN: Subject-Adaptive Community Detection for fMRI-Based Alzheimer's Disease Classification

- 通过元概率池化实现个体化脑网络分块,动态适应不同受试者
- 在两个公开数据集上均达到最高AUC,优于现有基线方法
- 揭示了阿尔茨海默病特有的网络去分化特征,与经典脑图谱高度一致
功能性磁共振成像(fMRI)是研究大脑的常用技术。近期利用图神经网络(GNN)分析脑功能连接的方法在阿尔茨海默病(AD)等脑疾病分类中展现出巨大潜力。然而,这些方法通常假设所有受试者具有固定数量的功能模块,忽视了个体间差异;且发现的模块很少直接用于指导学习到的连接模式。为此,我们提出元概率池化图神经网络(MPP-GNN)。将模型任务建模为耦合的双层优化,通过层次化自适应图划分发现受试者特异性模块,并将这些模块作为显式先验,引导边的精细化和表征学习。我们在两个公开数据集上验证了MPP-GNN,在两个数据集上均取得了比现有基线更高的AUC。此外,分析表明MPP-GNN与Yeo脑图谱定义的经典功能网络组织具有显著一致性,并揭示了阿尔茨海默病的网络级去分化模式。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a widely used technique for studying the brain. Recent methods that utilize graph neural networks (GNNs) for analysis of brain functional connectivity have shown great potential for the classification of brain disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, these methods often assume a preset number of functional modules across all subjects, which overlooks inter-subject variability. In addition, the discovered modules are rarely used to directly guide the learned connectivity patterns. Here, to address these issues, we propose a Meta Probabilistic Pooling GNN (MPP-GNN). We frame the model's task as a coupled, bilevel optimization that performs adaptive graph partitioning hierarchically to discover subject-specific modules and then uses the discovered brain modules as an explicit prior to guide edge refinement and representation learning. We validate MPP-GNN on two public datasets for AD classification, achieving the highest AUC in comparison to established baselines for both datasets. Furthermore, our analysis demonstrates that MPP-GNN shows significant alignment with the canonical functional-network organization defined by the Yeo brain atlas and reveals a network-level dedifferentiation pattern for AD.
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