BRIEF: BRain-Inspired network connection search with Extensive temporal feature Fusion enhances disease classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11732v1
• Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:36:03 GMT
• Title: BRIEF: BRain-Inspired network connection search with Extensive temporal feature Fusion enhances disease classification
• Authors: Xiangxiang Cui, Min Zhao, Dongmei Zhi, Shile Qi, Vince D Calhoun, Jing Sui,
• Abstract summary: BRain-Inspired feature Fusion (BRIEF) is able to optimize network architecture automatically.<n>BRIEF demonstrated significant improvements of 2.2% to 12.1% compared to 21 algorithms.<n>This is the first attempt to incorporate a brain-inspired, reinforcement learning strategy to optimize fMRI-based mental disorder classification.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Existing deep learning models for functional MRI-based classification have limitations in network architecture determination (relying on experience) and feature space fusion (mostly simple concatenation, lacking mutual learning). Inspired by the human brain's mechanism of updating neural connections through learning and decision-making, we proposed a novel BRain-Inspired feature Fusion (BRIEF) framework, which is able to optimize network architecture automatically by incorporating an improved neural network connection search (NCS) strategy and a Transformer-based multi-feature fusion module. Specifically, we first extracted 4 types of fMRI temporal representations, i.e., time series (TCs), static/dynamic functional connection (FNC/dFNC), and multi-scale dispersion entropy (MsDE), to construct four encoders. Within each encoder, we employed a modified Q-learning to dynamically optimize the NCS to extract high-level feature vectors, where the NCS is formulated as a Markov Decision Process. Then, all feature vectors were fused via a Transformer, leveraging both stable/time-varying connections and multi-scale dependencies across different brain regions to achieve the final classification. Additionally, an attention module was embedded to improve interpretability. The classification performance of our proposed BRIEF was compared with 21 state-of-the-art models by discriminating two mental disorders from healthy controls: schizophrenia (SZ, n=1100) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD, n=1550). BRIEF demonstrated significant improvements of 2.2% to 12.1% compared to 21 algorithms, reaching an AUC of 91.5% - 0.6% for SZ and 78.4% - 0.5% for ASD, respectively. This is the first attempt to incorporate a brain-inspired, reinforcement learning strategy to optimize fMRI-based mental disorder classification, showing significant potential for identifying precise neuroimaging biomarkers.

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