Brain network decomposition by Auto Encoder (AE) and graph auto encoder (GAE)

Myungwon Choi, Pilsub Lee, Daegyeom Kim, Suji Lee, Hyun Chul Youn, Hyun Ghang Jeong, Cheol E. Han

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    Abstract

    Brain networks consist of nodes that are anatomically defined brain regions, and edges that connect a pair of brain regions. The diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images and the advances in computer-aided tractography algorithms showed that human brain networks are strongly associated with cognitive functions. Brain regions dedicated to a specific cognitive function are spatially clustered and efficiently connected each other; this is called local functional segregation. However, it is not well known that such a local segregation is associated with sub-networks which may act as building blocks of brain networks. In this work, we used machine learning techniques to analyze brain networks. Specifically, using an auto-encoder and a graph auto-encoder, we decomposed brain networks into several essential building blocks, and compared their results through various measures of decomposition quality. We observed that the graph auto-encoder out-performed the auto-encoder, and that its results showed significant correlation with cognitive deterioration in Alzheimer’s disease.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 26th International Conference, ICONIP 2019, Proceedings
    EditorsTom Gedeon, Kok Wai Wong, Minho Lee
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages568-579
    Number of pages12
    ISBN (Print)9783030367077
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019
    Event26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2019 - Sydney, Australia
    Duration: 2019 Dec 122019 Dec 15

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume11953 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2019
    Country/TerritoryAustralia
    CitySydney
    Period19/12/1219/12/15

    Keywords

    • Alzheimer’s disease
    • Brain networks
    • Graph auto-encoder
    • Graph convolutional neural network

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Theoretical Computer Science
    • Computer Science(all)

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