Longitudinal Prediction of Infant Diffusion MRI Data via Graph Convolutional Adversarial Networks

Yoonmi Hong, Jaeil Kim, Geng Chen, Weili Lin, Pew Thian Yap*, Dinggang Shen

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    Abstract

    Missing data is a common problem in longitudinal studies due to subject dropouts and failed scans. We present a graph-based convolutional neural network to predict missing diffusion MRI data. In particular, we consider the relationships between sampling points in the spatial domain and the diffusion wave-vector domain to construct a graph. We then use a graph convolutional network to learn the non-linear mapping from available data to missing data. Our method harnesses a multi-scale residual architecture with adversarial learning for prediction with greater accuracy and perceptual quality. Experimental results show that our method is accurate and robust in the longitudinal prediction of infant brain diffusion MRI data.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number8691605
    Pages (from-to)2717-2725
    Number of pages9
    JournalIEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
    Volume38
    Issue number12
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019 Dec

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    Manuscript received February 22, 2019; revised April 6, 2019; accepted April 7, 2019. Date of publication April 15, 2019; date of current version November 26, 2019. This work was supported in part by NIH under Grant NS093842, Grant MH117943, Grant EB006733, Grant EB009634, Grant AG041721, and Grant MH100217. (Corresponding authors: Pew-Thian Yap; Dinggang Shen.) Y. Hong, G. Chen, W. Lin, and P.-T. Yap are with the Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA, and also with the Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2019 IEEE.

    Keywords

    • Graph CNN
    • adversarial learning
    • diffusion MRI
    • early brain development
    • longitudinal prediction

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Software
    • Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
    • Computer Science Applications
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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