Progressive Self-Supervised Learning with Individualized Community Assignment for Brain Network Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29695v1
• Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:56:23 GMT
• Title: Progressive Self-Supervised Learning with Individualized Community Assignment for Brain Network Analysis
• Abstract summary: Brain networks exhibit a modular community structure that varies across individuals and neurological conditions.<n>We propose BrainPICM, a self-supervised framework for brain network analysis via progressive individualized community aware masking.<n>BrainPICM consistently outperforms state-of-the-art supervised and SSL methods in diagnostic accuracy.
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• Abstract: Brain networks exhibit a modular community structure that varies across individuals and neurological conditions. However, existing self-supervised learning (SSL) methods often overlook this heterogeneity, relying on generic masking strategies that fail to capture subject-specific functional organization. We propose BrainPICM, a self-supervised framework for brain network analysis via progressive individualized community aware masking. BrainPICM formulates ROI-to-community mapping as a progressive unbalanced optimal transport process, yielding soft assignments and per-ROI confidence scores. Guided by these confidence estimates, a curriculum-style masking strategy gradually incorporates low-confidence, potentially pathological regions into training, enabling the model to learn both stable modular structures and individual variations. Additionally, a deviation-aware aggregation module quantifies functional reorganization by measuring mass redistribution relative to a population template, enhancing interpretability and downstream prediction. Experiments on three fMRI datasets (ABIDE-I, ADHD-200, ADNI) show that BrainPICM consistently outperforms state-of-the-art supervised and SSL methods in diagnostic accuracy, indicating that explicitly injecting modular community structure into masked modeling yields more functionally consistent and generalizable representations. The source code for this approach will be released at https://github.com/Hrychen7/BrainPICM.

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