Variational Mixture of Graph Neural Experts for Alzheimer's Disease Biomarker Recognition in EEG Brain Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11917v1
• Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:37:18 GMT
• Title: Variational Mixture of Graph Neural Experts for Alzheimer's Disease Biomarker Recognition in EEG Brain Networks
• Authors: Jun-En Ding, Anna Zilverstand, Shihao Yang, Albert Chih-Chieh Yang, Feng Liu,
• Abstract summary: Existing EEG-based methods are limited by full-band frequency analysis.<n>We propose a variational mixture of graph neural experts (VMoGE) that integrates frequency-specific biomarker identification.<n>VMoGE achieves superior performance with AUC improvements of +4% to +10% over state-of-the-art methods.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Dementia disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) exhibit overlapping electrophysiological signatures in EEG that challenge accurate diagnosis. Existing EEG-based methods are limited by full-band frequency analysis that hinders precise differentiation of dementia subtypes and severity stages. We propose a variational mixture of graph neural experts (VMoGE) that integrates frequency-specific biomarker identification with structured variational inference for enhanced dementia diagnosis and staging. VMoGE employs a multi-granularity transformer to extract multi-scale temporal patterns across four frequency bands, followed by a variational graph convolutional encoder using Gaussian Markov Random Field priors. Through structured variational inference and adaptive gating, VMoGE links neural specialization to physiologically meaningful EEG frequency bands. Evaluated on two diverse datasets for both subtype classification and severity staging, VMoGE achieves superior performance with AUC improvements of +4% to +10% over state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, VMoGE provides interpretable insights through expert weights that correlate with clinical indicators and spatial patterns aligned with neuropathological signatures, facilitating EEG biomarker discovery for comprehensive dementia diagnosis and monitoring.

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