Contrasformer: A Brain Network Contrastive Transformer for Neurodegenerative Condition Identification

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Auteurs principaux: Xu, Jiaxing, He, Kai, Lan, Mengcheng, Bian, Qingtian, Li, Wei, Li, Tieying, Ke, Yiping, Qiao, Miao
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author Xu, Jiaxing
He, Kai
Lan, Mengcheng
Bian, Qingtian
Li, Wei
Li, Tieying
Ke, Yiping
Qiao, Miao
author_facet Xu, Jiaxing
He, Kai
Lan, Mengcheng
Bian, Qingtian
Li, Wei
Li, Tieying
Ke, Yiping
Qiao, Miao
contents Understanding neurological disorder is a fundamental problem in neuroscience, which often requires the analysis of brain networks derived from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. Despite the prevalence of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Graph Transformers in various domains, applying them to brain networks faces challenges. Specifically, the datasets are severely impacted by the noises caused by distribution shifts across sub-populations and the neglect of node identities, both obstruct the identification of disease-specific patterns. To tackle these challenges, we propose Contrasformer, a novel contrastive brain network Transformer. It generates a prior-knowledge-enhanced contrast graph to address the distribution shifts across sub-populations by a two-stream attention mechanism. A cross attention with identity embedding highlights the identity of nodes, and three auxiliary losses ensure group consistency. Evaluated on 4 functional brain network datasets over 4 different diseases, Contrasformer outperforms the state-of-the-art methods for brain networks by achieving up to 10.8\% improvement in accuracy, which demonstrates its efficacy in neurological disorder identification. Case studies illustrate its interpretability, especially in the context of neuroscience. This paper provides a solution for analyzing brain networks, offering valuable insights into neurological disorders. Our code is available at \url{https://github.com/AngusMonroe/Contrasformer}.
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spellingShingle Contrasformer: A Brain Network Contrastive Transformer for Neurodegenerative Condition Identification
Xu, Jiaxing
He, Kai
Lan, Mengcheng
Bian, Qingtian
Li, Wei
Li, Tieying
Ke, Yiping
Qiao, Miao
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Neurons and Cognition
Understanding neurological disorder is a fundamental problem in neuroscience, which often requires the analysis of brain networks derived from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. Despite the prevalence of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Graph Transformers in various domains, applying them to brain networks faces challenges. Specifically, the datasets are severely impacted by the noises caused by distribution shifts across sub-populations and the neglect of node identities, both obstruct the identification of disease-specific patterns. To tackle these challenges, we propose Contrasformer, a novel contrastive brain network Transformer. It generates a prior-knowledge-enhanced contrast graph to address the distribution shifts across sub-populations by a two-stream attention mechanism. A cross attention with identity embedding highlights the identity of nodes, and three auxiliary losses ensure group consistency. Evaluated on 4 functional brain network datasets over 4 different diseases, Contrasformer outperforms the state-of-the-art methods for brain networks by achieving up to 10.8\% improvement in accuracy, which demonstrates its efficacy in neurological disorder identification. Case studies illustrate its interpretability, especially in the context of neuroscience. This paper provides a solution for analyzing brain networks, offering valuable insights into neurological disorders. Our code is available at \url{https://github.com/AngusMonroe/Contrasformer}.
title Contrasformer: A Brain Network Contrastive Transformer for Neurodegenerative Condition Identification
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Neurons and Cognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10944