Learning Brain Functional Networks With Latent Temporal Dependency for MCI Identification

Yanfang Xue, Yining Zhang, Limei Zhang, Seong Whan Lee, Lishan Qiao, Dinggang Shen

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    Abstract

    Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) has become a popular non-invasive way of diagnosing neurological disorders or their early stages by probing functional connectivity between different brain regions of interest (ROIs) across subjects. In the past decades, researchers have proposed many methods to estimate brain functional networks (BFNs) based on blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signals captured by rs-fMRI. However, most of the existing methods estimate BFNs under the assumption that signals are independently sampled, which ignores the temporal dependency and sequential order of different time points (or volumes). To address this problem, in this paper, we first propose a novel BFN estimation model by introducing a latent variable to control the sequence of volumes for encoding the temporal dependency and sequential information of signals into the estimated BFNs. Then, we develop an efficient learning algorithm to solve the proposed model by the alternating optimization scheme. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, the estimated BFNs are used to identify subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCIs) from normal controls (NCs). Experimental results show that our method outperforms the baseline methods in the terms of classification performance.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)590-601
    Number of pages12
    JournalIEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
    Volume69
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2022 Feb 1

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    Manuscript received March 25, 2021; accepted July 28, 2021. Date of publication August 4, 2021; date of current version January 20, 2022. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61976110 and 11931008, and in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province under Grant ZR2018MF020. (Corresponding author: Lishan Qiao.) Yanfang Xue, Yining Zhang, and Limei Zhang are with the School of Mathematical Sciences, Liaocheng University, China.

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    © 1964-2012 IEEE.

    Keywords

    • Alzheimer's disease (AD)
    • brain functional networks (BFNs)
    • mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
    • sequential information
    • temporal dependency

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Biomedical Engineering

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