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Path Signature Neural Network of Cortical Features for Prediction of Infant Cognitive Scores

Ni, Hao; Cheng, Jiale; Zhang, Xin; Li, Chenyang; Xu, Xiangmin; Wu, Zhengwang; Wang, Li; ... Li, Gang; + view all (2022) Path Signature Neural Network of Cortical Features for Prediction of Infant Cognitive Scores. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging , 41 (7) 10.1109/TMI.2022.3147690. Green open access

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Abstract

Studies have shown that there is a tight connection between cognition skills and brain morphology during infancy. Nonetheless, it is still a great challenge to predict individual cognitive scores using their brain morphological features, considering issues like the excessive feature dimension, small sample size and missing data. Due to the limited data, a compact but expressive feature set is desirable as it can reduce the dimension and avoid the potential overfitting issue. Therefore, we pioneer the path signature method to further explore the essential hidden dynamic patterns of longitudinal cortical features. To form a hierarchical and more informative temporal representation, in this work, a novel cortical feature based path signature neural network (CF-PSNet) is proposed with stacked differentiable temporal path signature layers for prediction of individual cognitive scores. By introducing the existence embedding in path generation, we can improve the robustness against the missing data. Benefiting from the global temporal receptive field of CF-PSNet, characteristics consisted in the existing data can be fully leveraged. Further, as there is no need for the whole brain to work for a certain cognitive ability, a top K selection module is used to select the most influential brain regions, decreasing the model size and the risk of overfitting. Extensive experiments are conducted on an in-house longitudinal infant dataset within 9 time points. By comparing with several recent algorithms, we illustrate the state-of-the-art performance of our CF-PSNet (i.e., root mean square error of 0.027 with the time latency of 518 milliseconds for each sample).

Type: Article
Title: Path Signature Neural Network of Cortical Features for Prediction of Infant Cognitive Scores
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2022.3147690
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2022.3147690
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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URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10142605
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