多超图融合优化的阿尔茨海默症辅助诊断
Multi-Hypergraph Fusion Optimization For Alzheimer's Disease Auxiliary Diagnosis
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摘要: 针对在使用平均血氧水平依赖(Blood Oxygen Level Dependent, BOLD)序列的阿尔茨海默症(Alzheimer's Disease, AD)分类的构造超图方法中,存在基于少数时间点构造的超图导致丢失受试者大脑感兴趣区域(Region Of Interest, ROI)关键细节的问题,提出了多超图融合优化的AD分类模型。该模型对BOLD序列使用滑动窗口的方法,依次提取出窗口内各个脑区之间的非线性高阶关系来构造多个超图,考虑到超边特征向量之间在窗口维度的细微差异性,以超边之间功能连接关系和相似度关系来对超图特征进行提取和融合,再搭建引入注意力机制的超图注意力神经网络(fMRI Hypergraph Attention Neural Network, FHyperGAT),识别融合超图数据中脑区之间的功能连通特征。实验结果表明,该模型在AD/正常对照(Normal Control, NC)分类任务中的分类准确率较超图卷积网络模型(Hypergraph Convolutional Network, HyperGCN)提高了10个百分点,证明了模型的有效性。Abstract: In the method of constructing hypergraphs for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) classification using the average blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) sequences, there exists a problem where hypergraphs constructed based on a limited number of time points lead to the loss of critical details in the regions of interest (ROI) of the subjects’ brains, a multi-hypergraph fusion optimization model for AD classification is proposed. The model employs a sliding window approach on BOLD sequences to sequentially extract nonlinear high-order relationships between various brain regions within the window to construct multiple hypergraphs, considering the subtle differences in feature vectors of hyperedges across window dimensions, extract and fuse hypergraph features based on the functional connectivity and similarity relationships between hyperedges, and build a fMRI hypergraph attention neural network (FHyperGAT) that incorporates attention mechanisms to identify the functional connectivity features between brain regions within the fused hypergraph data. Experimental results demonstrate that the method proposed in this research has improved the classification performance on the AD/normal control (NC) classification task by 10 percentage points compared with the hypergraph convolutional network model (HyperGCN) , proving the effectiveness of the model.