Cross-domain Fiber Cluster Shape Analysis for Language Performance Cognitive Score Prediction

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Hauptverfasser: Lo, Yui, Chen, Yuqian, Liu, Dongnan, Liu, Wan, Zekelman, Leo, Zhang, Fan, Rathi, Yogesh, Makris, Nikos, Golby, Alexandra J., Cai, Weidong, O'Donnell, Lauren J.
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author Lo, Yui
Chen, Yuqian
Liu, Dongnan
Liu, Wan
Zekelman, Leo
Zhang, Fan
Rathi, Yogesh
Makris, Nikos
Golby, Alexandra J.
Cai, Weidong
O'Donnell, Lauren J.
author_facet Lo, Yui
Chen, Yuqian
Liu, Dongnan
Liu, Wan
Zekelman, Leo
Zhang, Fan
Rathi, Yogesh
Makris, Nikos
Golby, Alexandra J.
Cai, Weidong
O'Donnell, Lauren J.
contents Shape plays an important role in computer graphics, offering informative features to convey an object's morphology and functionality. Shape analysis in brain imaging can help interpret structural and functionality correlations of the human brain. In this work, we investigate the shape of the brain's 3D white matter connections and its potential predictive relationship to human cognitive function. We reconstruct brain connections as sequences of 3D points using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) tractography. To describe each connection, we extract 12 shape descriptors in addition to traditional dMRI connectivity and tissue microstructure features. We introduce a novel framework, Shape--fused Fiber Cluster Transformer (SFFormer), that leverages a multi-head cross-attention feature fusion module to predict subject-specific language performance based on dMRI tractography. We assess the performance of the method on a large dataset including 1065 healthy young adults. The results demonstrate that both the transformer-based SFFormer model and its inter/intra feature fusion with shape, microstructure, and connectivity are informative, and together, they improve the prediction of subject-specific language performance scores. Overall, our results indicate that the shape of the brain's connections is predictive of human language function.
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spellingShingle Cross-domain Fiber Cluster Shape Analysis for Language Performance Cognitive Score Prediction
Lo, Yui
Chen, Yuqian
Liu, Dongnan
Liu, Wan
Zekelman, Leo
Zhang, Fan
Rathi, Yogesh
Makris, Nikos
Golby, Alexandra J.
Cai, Weidong
O'Donnell, Lauren J.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Image and Video Processing
Neurons and Cognition
Shape plays an important role in computer graphics, offering informative features to convey an object's morphology and functionality. Shape analysis in brain imaging can help interpret structural and functionality correlations of the human brain. In this work, we investigate the shape of the brain's 3D white matter connections and its potential predictive relationship to human cognitive function. We reconstruct brain connections as sequences of 3D points using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) tractography. To describe each connection, we extract 12 shape descriptors in addition to traditional dMRI connectivity and tissue microstructure features. We introduce a novel framework, Shape--fused Fiber Cluster Transformer (SFFormer), that leverages a multi-head cross-attention feature fusion module to predict subject-specific language performance based on dMRI tractography. We assess the performance of the method on a large dataset including 1065 healthy young adults. The results demonstrate that both the transformer-based SFFormer model and its inter/intra feature fusion with shape, microstructure, and connectivity are informative, and together, they improve the prediction of subject-specific language performance scores. Overall, our results indicate that the shape of the brain's connections is predictive of human language function.
title Cross-domain Fiber Cluster Shape Analysis for Language Performance Cognitive Score Prediction
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Image and Video Processing
Neurons and Cognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19001