Abstract
Constructing functional connectivity (FC) based on brain atlas is a common approach to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis, which is a challenging task due to the heterogeneity of the data. Utilizing graph convolutional network (GCN) to capture the topology of FC is an effective method for ASD diagnosis. However, current GCN-based methods focus more on the relationships between brain regions and ignore the potential population relationships among subjects. Meanwhile, they limit the analysis to a single atlas, ignoring the more abundant information that multi-atlas can provide. Therefore, we propose a multi-atlas representation based ASD diagnosis. First, we propose a dense local triplet GCN considering the relationship between the regions of interests. Then, further considering the population relationship of subjects, a subject network global GCN is proposed. Finally, to utilize multi-atlas representations, we propose multi-atlas mutual learning for ASD diagnosis. Our proposed method is evaluated on 949 subjects from the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange. The experimental results show that the accuracy and an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of our method reach 78.78% and 0.7810, respectively. Compared with other methods, the proposed method is more advantages. In conclusion, our proposed method guides further research on the objective diagnosis of ASD.
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This work is supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province under Grant (No.2022JJ30753), in part by the Shenzhen Science and Technology Program (No.KQTD20200820113106007), in part by Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Intelligent Bioinformatics (ZDSYS20220422103800001), in part by the Central South University Innovation-Driven Research Programme under Grant 2023CXQD018, and in part by the High Performance Computing Center of Central South University.
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Liu, J., Zhu, J., Tian, X., Mao, J., Pan, Y. (2024). Multi-atlas Representations Based on Graph Convolutional Networks for Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis. In: Liu, Q., et al. Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision. PRCV 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14437. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8558-6_38
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