mSPD-NN: A Geometrically Aware Neural Framework for Biomarker Discovery from Functional Connectomics Manifolds

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14986v1
• Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:30:11 GMT
• Title: mSPD-NN: A Geometrically Aware Neural Framework for Biomarker Discovery from Functional Connectomics Manifolds
• Authors: Niharika S. D'Souza and Archana Venkataraman
• Abstract summary: We propose a geometrically aware neural framework for connectomes, i.e., the mSPD-NN. We demonstrate the efficacy of our mSPD-NN against common alternatives for SPD mean estimation. It uncovers stable biomarkers associated with subtle network differences among patients with ADHD-ASD comorbidities and healthy controls.
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• Abstract: Connectomics has emerged as a powerful tool in neuroimaging and has spurred recent advancements in statistical and machine learning methods for connectivity data. Despite connectomes inhabiting a matrix manifold, most analytical frameworks ignore the underlying data geometry. This is largely because simple operations, such as mean estimation, do not have easily computable closed-form solutions. We propose a geometrically aware neural framework for connectomes, i.e., the mSPD-NN, designed to estimate the geodesic mean of a collections of symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices. The mSPD-NN is comprised of bilinear fully connected layers with tied weights and utilizes a novel loss function to optimize the matrix-normal equation arising from Fr\'echet mean estimation. Via experiments on synthetic data, we demonstrate the efficacy of our mSPD-NN against common alternatives for SPD mean estimation, providing competitive performance in terms of scalability and robustness to noise. We illustrate the real-world flexibility of the mSPD-NN in multiple experiments on rs-fMRI data and demonstrate that it uncovers stable biomarkers associated with subtle network differences among patients with ADHD-ASD comorbidities and healthy controls.

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