Brain Imaging-to-Graph Generation using Adversarial Hierarchical Diffusion Models for MCI Causality Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10754v2
• Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 01:35:11 GMT
• Title: Brain Imaging-to-Graph Generation using Adversarial Hierarchical Diffusion Models for MCI Causality Analysis
• Authors: Qiankun Zuo, Hao Tian, Chi-Man Pun, Hongfei Wang, Yudong Zhang, Jin Hong,
• Abstract summary: Brain imaging-to-graph generation (BIGG) framework is proposed to map functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) into effective connectivity for mild cognitive impairment analysis. The hierarchical transformers in the generator are designed to estimate the noise at multiple scales. Evaluations of the ADNI dataset demonstrate the feasibility and efficacy of the proposed model.
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• Abstract: Effective connectivity can describe the causal patterns among brain regions. These patterns have the potential to reveal the pathological mechanism and promote early diagnosis and effective drug development for cognitive disease. However, the current methods utilize software toolkits to extract empirical features from brain imaging to estimate effective connectivity. These methods heavily rely on manual parameter settings and may result in large errors during effective connectivity estimation. In this paper, a novel brain imaging-to-graph generation (BIGG) framework is proposed to map functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) into effective connectivity for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) analysis. To be specific, the proposed BIGG framework is based on the diffusion denoising probabilistic models (DDPM), where each denoising step is modeled as a generative adversarial network (GAN) to progressively translate the noise and conditional fMRI to effective connectivity. The hierarchical transformers in the generator are designed to estimate the noise at multiple scales. Each scale concentrates on both spatial and temporal information between brain regions, enabling good quality in noise removal and better inference of causal relations. Meanwhile, the transformer-based discriminator constrains the generator to further capture global and local patterns for improving high-quality and diversity generation. By introducing the diffusive factor, the denoising inference with a large sampling step size is more efficient and can maintain high-quality results for effective connectivity generation. Evaluations of the ADNI dataset demonstrate the feasibility and efficacy of the proposed model. The proposed model not only achieves superior prediction performance compared with other competing methods but also predicts MCI-related causal connections that are consistent with clinical studies.

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