DW-DGAT: Dynamically Weighted Dual Graph Attention Network for Neurodegenerative Disease Diagnosis

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Main Authors: Liang, Chengjia, Wang, Zhenjiong, Chen, Chao, Zhang, Ruizhi, Liang, Songxi, Xie, Hai, Lei, Haijun, Huang, Zhongwei
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author Liang, Chengjia
Wang, Zhenjiong
Chen, Chao
Zhang, Ruizhi
Liang, Songxi
Xie, Hai
Lei, Haijun
Huang, Zhongwei
author_facet Liang, Chengjia
Wang, Zhenjiong
Chen, Chao
Zhang, Ruizhi
Liang, Songxi
Xie, Hai
Lei, Haijun
Huang, Zhongwei
contents Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are the two most prevalent and incurable neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) worldwide, for which early diagnosis is critical to delay their progression. However, the high dimensionality of multi-metric data with diverse structural forms, the heterogeneity of neuroimaging and phenotypic data, and class imbalance collectively pose significant challenges to early ND diagnosis. To address these challenges, we propose a dynamically weighted dual graph attention network (DW-DGAT) that integrates: (1) a general-purpose data fusion strategy to merge three structural forms of multi-metric data; (2) a dual graph attention architecture based on brain regions and inter-sample relationships to extract both micro- and macro-level features; and (3) a class weight generation mechanism combined with two stable and effective loss functions to mitigate class imbalance. Rigorous experiments, based on the Parkinson Progression Marker Initiative (PPMI) and Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) studies, demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of our approach.
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spellingShingle DW-DGAT: Dynamically Weighted Dual Graph Attention Network for Neurodegenerative Disease Diagnosis
Liang, Chengjia
Wang, Zhenjiong
Chen, Chao
Zhang, Ruizhi
Liang, Songxi
Xie, Hai
Lei, Haijun
Huang, Zhongwei
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are the two most prevalent and incurable neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) worldwide, for which early diagnosis is critical to delay their progression. However, the high dimensionality of multi-metric data with diverse structural forms, the heterogeneity of neuroimaging and phenotypic data, and class imbalance collectively pose significant challenges to early ND diagnosis. To address these challenges, we propose a dynamically weighted dual graph attention network (DW-DGAT) that integrates: (1) a general-purpose data fusion strategy to merge three structural forms of multi-metric data; (2) a dual graph attention architecture based on brain regions and inter-sample relationships to extract both micro- and macro-level features; and (3) a class weight generation mechanism combined with two stable and effective loss functions to mitigate class imbalance. Rigorous experiments, based on the Parkinson Progression Marker Initiative (PPMI) and Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) studies, demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of our approach.
title DW-DGAT: Dynamically Weighted Dual Graph Attention Network for Neurodegenerative Disease Diagnosis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10001