Using Graph Convolutional Networks to Address fMRI Small Data Problems

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Autores principales: Screven, Thomas, Necz, Andras, Smucny, Jason, Davidson, Ian
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author Screven, Thomas
Necz, Andras
Smucny, Jason
Davidson, Ian
author_facet Screven, Thomas
Necz, Andras
Smucny, Jason
Davidson, Ian
contents Although great advances in the analysis of neuroimaging data have been made, a major challenge is a lack of training data. This is less problematic in tasks such as diagnosis, where much data exists, but particularly prevalent in harder problems such as predicting treatment responses (prognosis), where data is focused and hence limited. Here, we address the learning from small data problems for medical imaging using graph neural networks. This is particularly challenging as the information about the patients is themselves graphs (regions of interest connectivity graphs). We show how a spectral representation of the connectivity data allows for efficient propagation that can yield approximately 12\% improvement over traditional deep learning methods using the exact same data. We show that our method's superior performance is due to a data smoothing result that can be measured by closing the number of triangle inequalities and thereby satisfying transitivity.
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spellingShingle Using Graph Convolutional Networks to Address fMRI Small Data Problems
Screven, Thomas
Necz, Andras
Smucny, Jason
Davidson, Ian
Signal Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Although great advances in the analysis of neuroimaging data have been made, a major challenge is a lack of training data. This is less problematic in tasks such as diagnosis, where much data exists, but particularly prevalent in harder problems such as predicting treatment responses (prognosis), where data is focused and hence limited. Here, we address the learning from small data problems for medical imaging using graph neural networks. This is particularly challenging as the information about the patients is themselves graphs (regions of interest connectivity graphs). We show how a spectral representation of the connectivity data allows for efficient propagation that can yield approximately 12\% improvement over traditional deep learning methods using the exact same data. We show that our method's superior performance is due to a data smoothing result that can be measured by closing the number of triangle inequalities and thereby satisfying transitivity.
title Using Graph Convolutional Networks to Address fMRI Small Data Problems
topic Signal Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17489