GCAN: Generative Counterfactual Attention-guided Network for Explainable Cognitive Decline Diagnostics based on fMRI Functional Connectivity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01758v2
• Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 11:36:15 GMT
• Title: GCAN: Generative Counterfactual Attention-guided Network for Explainable Cognitive Decline Diagnostics based on fMRI Functional Connectivity
• Authors: Xiongri Shen, Zhenxi Song, Zhiguo Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and subjective cognitive decline (SCD) from fMRI functional connectivity (FC) has gained popularity. Most FC-based diagnostic models are black boxes lacking casual reasoning so they contribute little to the knowledge about FC-based neural biomarkers of cognitive decline. We propose a generative counterfactual attention-guided network (GCAN), which introduces counterfactual reasoning to recognize cognitive decline-related brain regions.
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• Abstract: Diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and subjective cognitive decline (SCD) from fMRI functional connectivity (FC) has gained popularity, but most FC-based diagnostic models are black boxes lacking casual reasoning so they contribute little to the knowledge about FC-based neural biomarkers of cognitive decline.To enhance the explainability of diagnostic models, we propose a generative counterfactual attention-guided network (GCAN), which introduces counterfactual reasoning to recognize cognitive decline-related brain regions and then uses these regions as attention maps to boost the prediction performance of diagnostic models. Furthermore, to tackle the difficulty in the generation of highly-structured and brain-atlas-constrained FC, which is essential in counterfactual reasoning, an Atlas-Aware Bidirectional Transformer (AABT) method is developed. AABT employs a bidirectional strategy to encode and decode the tokens from each network of brain atlas, thereby enhancing the generation of high-quality target label FC. In the experiments of hospital-collected and ADNI datasets, the generated attention maps closely resemble FC abnormalities in the literature on SCD and MCI. The diagnostic performance is also superior to baseline models. The code is available at https://github.com/SXR3015/GCAN

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