Classification of Mild Cognitive Impairment Based on Dynamic Functional Connectivity Using Spatio-Temporal Transformer

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Autores principales: Zhang, Jing, Lyu, Yanjun, Yu, Xiaowei, Zhang, Lu, Cao, Chao, Chen, Tong, Chen, Minheng, Zhuang, Yan, Liu, Tianming, Zhu, Dajiang
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author Zhang, Jing
Lyu, Yanjun
Yu, Xiaowei
Zhang, Lu
Cao, Chao
Chen, Tong
Chen, Minheng
Zhuang, Yan
Liu, Tianming
Zhu, Dajiang
author_facet Zhang, Jing
Lyu, Yanjun
Yu, Xiaowei
Zhang, Lu
Cao, Chao
Chen, Tong
Chen, Minheng
Zhuang, Yan
Liu, Tianming
Zhu, Dajiang
contents Dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) is an advanced technique for capturing the dynamic changes of neural activities, and can be very useful in the studies of brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Yet, existing studies have not fully leveraged the sequential information embedded within dFC that can potentially provide valuable information when identifying brain conditions. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that jointly learns the embedding of both spatial and temporal information within dFC based on the transformer architecture. Specifically, we first construct dFC networks from rs-fMRI data through a sliding window strategy. Then, we simultaneously employ a temporal block and a spatial block to capture higher-order representations of dynamic spatio-temporal dependencies, via mapping them into an efficient fused feature representation. To further enhance the robustness of these feature representations by reducing the dependency on labeled data, we also introduce a contrastive learning strategy to manipulate different brain states. Experimental results on 345 subjects with 570 scans from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method for MCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment, the prodromal stage of AD) prediction, highlighting its potential for early identification of AD.
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spellingShingle Classification of Mild Cognitive Impairment Based on Dynamic Functional Connectivity Using Spatio-Temporal Transformer
Zhang, Jing
Lyu, Yanjun
Yu, Xiaowei
Zhang, Lu
Cao, Chao
Chen, Tong
Chen, Minheng
Zhuang, Yan
Liu, Tianming
Zhu, Dajiang
Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Neurons and Cognition
Dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) is an advanced technique for capturing the dynamic changes of neural activities, and can be very useful in the studies of brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Yet, existing studies have not fully leveraged the sequential information embedded within dFC that can potentially provide valuable information when identifying brain conditions. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that jointly learns the embedding of both spatial and temporal information within dFC based on the transformer architecture. Specifically, we first construct dFC networks from rs-fMRI data through a sliding window strategy. Then, we simultaneously employ a temporal block and a spatial block to capture higher-order representations of dynamic spatio-temporal dependencies, via mapping them into an efficient fused feature representation. To further enhance the robustness of these feature representations by reducing the dependency on labeled data, we also introduce a contrastive learning strategy to manipulate different brain states. Experimental results on 345 subjects with 570 scans from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method for MCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment, the prodromal stage of AD) prediction, highlighting its potential for early identification of AD.
title Classification of Mild Cognitive Impairment Based on Dynamic Functional Connectivity Using Spatio-Temporal Transformer
topic Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Neurons and Cognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16409