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Learning Infant Brain Developmental Connectivity for Cognitive Score Prediction

Li, Y; Cheng, J; Zhang, X; Fang, R; Liao, L; Ding, X; Ni, H; ... Li, G; + view all (2021) Learning Infant Brain Developmental Connectivity for Cognitive Score Prediction. In: Machine Learning in Medical Imaging. (pp. pp. 228-237). Springer Green open access

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Abstract

During infancy, the human brain develops rapidly in terms of structure, function and cognition. The tight connection between cognitive skills and brain morphology motivates us to focus on individual level cognitive score prediction using longitudinal structural MRI data. In the early postnatal stage, the massive brain region connections contain some intrinsic topologies, such as small-worldness and modular organization. Accordingly, graph convolutional networks can be used to incorporate different region combinations to predict the infant cognitive scores. Nevertheless, the definition of the brain region connectivity remains a problem. In this work, we propose a crafted layer, the Inter-region Connectivity Module (ICM), to effectively build brain region connections in a data-driven manner. To further leverage the critical cues hidden in the development patterns, we choose path signature as the sequential data descriptor to extract the essential dynamic information of the region-wise growth trajectories. With these region-wise developmental features and the inter-region connectivity, a novel Cortical Developmental Connectivity Network (CDC-Net) is built. Experiments on a longitudinal infant dataset within 3 time points and hundreds of subjects show our superior performance, outperforming classical machine learning based methods and deep learning based algorithms.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Learning Infant Brain Developmental Connectivity for Cognitive Score Prediction
Event: International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI 2021)
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87589-3_24
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87589-3_24
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Mathematics
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10136619
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