BDHT: Generative AI Enables Causality Analysis for Mild Cognitive Impairment

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Main Authors: Zuo, Qiankun, Chen, Ling, Shen, Yanyan, Ng, Michael Kwok-Po, Lei, Baiying, Wang, Shuqiang
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author Zuo, Qiankun
Chen, Ling
Shen, Yanyan
Ng, Michael Kwok-Po
Lei, Baiying
Wang, Shuqiang
author_facet Zuo, Qiankun
Chen, Ling
Shen, Yanyan
Ng, Michael Kwok-Po
Lei, Baiying
Wang, Shuqiang
contents Effective connectivity estimation plays a crucial role in understanding the interactions and information flow between different brain regions. However, the functional time series used for estimating effective connectivity is derived from certain software, which may lead to large computing errors because of different parameter settings and degrade the ability to model complex causal relationships between brain regions. In this paper, a brain diffuser with hierarchical transformer (BDHT) is proposed to estimate effective connectivity for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) analysis. To our best knowledge, the proposed brain diffuser is the first generative model to apply diffusion models to the application of generating and analyzing multimodal brain networks. Specifically, the BDHT leverages structural connectivity to guide the reverse processes in an efficient way. It makes the denoising process more reliable and guarantees effective connectivity estimation accuracy. To improve denoising quality, the hierarchical denoising transformer is designed to learn multi-scale features in topological space. By stacking the multi-head attention and graph convolutional network, the graph convolutional transformer (GraphConformer) module is devised to enhance structure-function complementarity and improve the ability in noise estimation. Experimental evaluations of the denoising diffusion model demonstrate its effectiveness in estimating effective connectivity. The proposed model achieves superior performance in terms of accuracy and robustness compared to existing approaches. Moreover, the proposed model can identify altered directional connections and provide a comprehensive understanding of parthenogenesis for MCI treatment.
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spellingShingle BDHT: Generative AI Enables Causality Analysis for Mild Cognitive Impairment
Zuo, Qiankun
Chen, Ling
Shen, Yanyan
Ng, Michael Kwok-Po
Lei, Baiying
Wang, Shuqiang
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Neurons and Cognition
Effective connectivity estimation plays a crucial role in understanding the interactions and information flow between different brain regions. However, the functional time series used for estimating effective connectivity is derived from certain software, which may lead to large computing errors because of different parameter settings and degrade the ability to model complex causal relationships between brain regions. In this paper, a brain diffuser with hierarchical transformer (BDHT) is proposed to estimate effective connectivity for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) analysis. To our best knowledge, the proposed brain diffuser is the first generative model to apply diffusion models to the application of generating and analyzing multimodal brain networks. Specifically, the BDHT leverages structural connectivity to guide the reverse processes in an efficient way. It makes the denoising process more reliable and guarantees effective connectivity estimation accuracy. To improve denoising quality, the hierarchical denoising transformer is designed to learn multi-scale features in topological space. By stacking the multi-head attention and graph convolutional network, the graph convolutional transformer (GraphConformer) module is devised to enhance structure-function complementarity and improve the ability in noise estimation. Experimental evaluations of the denoising diffusion model demonstrate its effectiveness in estimating effective connectivity. The proposed model achieves superior performance in terms of accuracy and robustness compared to existing approaches. Moreover, the proposed model can identify altered directional connections and provide a comprehensive understanding of parthenogenesis for MCI treatment.
title BDHT: Generative AI Enables Causality Analysis for Mild Cognitive Impairment
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Neurons and Cognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09022