A Comparative Study of Population-Graph Construction Methods and Graph Neural Networks for Brain Age Regression

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14816v1
• Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:30:45 GMT
• Title: A Comparative Study of Population-Graph Construction Methods and Graph Neural Networks for Brain Age Regression
• Authors: Kyriaki-Margarita Bintsi, Tamara T. Mueller, Sophie Starck, Vasileios Baltatzis, Alexander Hammers, Daniel Rueckert
• Abstract summary: In medical imaging, population graphs have demonstrated promising results, mostly for classification tasks. extracting population graphs is a non-trivial task and can significantly impact the performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) In this work, we highlight the importance of a meaningful graph construction and experiment with different population-graph construction methods.
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• Abstract: The difference between the chronological and biological brain age of a subject can be an important biomarker for neurodegenerative diseases, thus brain age estimation can be crucial in clinical settings. One way to incorporate multimodal information into this estimation is through population graphs, which combine various types of imaging data and capture the associations among individuals within a population. In medical imaging, population graphs have demonstrated promising results, mostly for classification tasks. In most cases, the graph structure is pre-defined and remains static during training. However, extracting population graphs is a non-trivial task and can significantly impact the performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which are sensitive to the graph structure. In this work, we highlight the importance of a meaningful graph construction and experiment with different population-graph construction methods and their effect on GNN performance on brain age estimation. We use the homophily metric and graph visualizations to gain valuable quantitative and qualitative insights on the extracted graph structures. For the experimental evaluation, we leverage the UK Biobank dataset, which offers many imaging and non-imaging phenotypes. Our results indicate that architectures highly sensitive to the graph structure, such as Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) and Graph Attention Network (GAT), struggle with low homophily graphs, while other architectures, such as GraphSage and Chebyshev, are more robust across different homophily ratios. We conclude that static graph construction approaches are potentially insufficient for the task of brain age estimation and make recommendations for alternative research directions.

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