STNAGNN: Data-driven Spatio-temporal Brain Connectivity beyond FC

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Hauptverfasser: Wang, Jiyao, Dvornek, Nicha C., Duan, Peiyu, Staib, Lawrence H., Ventola, Pamela, Duncan, James S.
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author Wang, Jiyao
Dvornek, Nicha C.
Duan, Peiyu
Staib, Lawrence H.
Ventola, Pamela
Duncan, James S.
author_facet Wang, Jiyao
Dvornek, Nicha C.
Duan, Peiyu
Staib, Lawrence H.
Ventola, Pamela
Duncan, James S.
contents In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely applied in the analysis of brain fMRI, yet defining the connectivity between ROIs remains a challenge in noisy fMRI data. Among all approaches, Functional Connectome (FC) is the most popular method. Computed by the correlation coefficients between ROI time series, FC is a powerful and computationally efficient way to estimate ROI connectivity. However, it is well known for neglecting structural connections and causality in ROI interactions. Also, FC becomes much more noisy in the short spatio-temporal sliding-window subsequences of fMRI. Effective Connectome (EC) is proposed as a directional alternative, but is difficult to accurately estimate. Furthermore, for optimal GNN performance, usually only a small percentage of the strongest connections are selected as sparse edges, resulting in oversimplification of complex brain connections. To tackle these challenges, we propose the Spatio-Temporal Node Attention Graph Neural Network (STNAGNN) as a data-driven alternative that combines sparse predefined FC with dense data-driven spatio-temporal connections, allowing for flexible and spatio-temporal learning of ROI interaction patterns.
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spellingShingle STNAGNN: Data-driven Spatio-temporal Brain Connectivity beyond FC
Wang, Jiyao
Dvornek, Nicha C.
Duan, Peiyu
Staib, Lawrence H.
Ventola, Pamela
Duncan, James S.
Machine Learning
Neurons and Cognition
In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely applied in the analysis of brain fMRI, yet defining the connectivity between ROIs remains a challenge in noisy fMRI data. Among all approaches, Functional Connectome (FC) is the most popular method. Computed by the correlation coefficients between ROI time series, FC is a powerful and computationally efficient way to estimate ROI connectivity. However, it is well known for neglecting structural connections and causality in ROI interactions. Also, FC becomes much more noisy in the short spatio-temporal sliding-window subsequences of fMRI. Effective Connectome (EC) is proposed as a directional alternative, but is difficult to accurately estimate. Furthermore, for optimal GNN performance, usually only a small percentage of the strongest connections are selected as sparse edges, resulting in oversimplification of complex brain connections. To tackle these challenges, we propose the Spatio-Temporal Node Attention Graph Neural Network (STNAGNN) as a data-driven alternative that combines sparse predefined FC with dense data-driven spatio-temporal connections, allowing for flexible and spatio-temporal learning of ROI interaction patterns.
title STNAGNN: Data-driven Spatio-temporal Brain Connectivity beyond FC
topic Machine Learning
Neurons and Cognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12065