10 research outputs found
Contrastive Brain Network Learning via Hierarchical Signed Graph Pooling Model
Recently brain networks have been widely adopted to study brain dynamics,
brain development and brain diseases. Graph representation learning techniques
on brain functional networks can facilitate the discovery of novel biomarkers
for clinical phenotypes and neurodegenerative diseases. However, current graph
learning techniques have several issues on brain network mining. Firstly, most
current graph learning models are designed for unsigned graph, which hinders
the analysis of many signed network data (e.g., brain functional networks).
Meanwhile, the insufficiency of brain network data limits the model performance
on clinical phenotypes predictions. Moreover, few of current graph learning
model is interpretable, which may not be capable to provide biological insights
for model outcomes. Here, we propose an interpretable hierarchical signed graph
representation learning model to extract graph-level representations from brain
functional networks, which can be used for different prediction tasks. In order
to further improve the model performance, we also propose a new strategy to
augment functional brain network data for contrastive learning. We evaluate
this framework on different classification and regression tasks using the data
from HCP and OASIS. Our results from extensive experiments demonstrate the
superiority of the proposed model compared to several state-of-the-art
techniques. Additionally, we use graph saliency maps, derived from these
prediction tasks, to demonstrate detection and interpretation of phenotypic
biomarkers
3D bi-directional transformer U-Net for medical image segmentation
As one of the popular deep learning methods, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have been widely adopted in segmentation tasks and have received positive feedback. However, in segmentation tasks, DCNN-based frameworks are known for their incompetence in dealing with global relations within imaging features. Although several techniques have been proposed to enhance the global reasoning of DCNN, these models are either not able to gain satisfying performances compared with traditional fully-convolutional structures or not capable of utilizing the basic advantages of CNN-based networks (namely the ability of local reasoning). In this study, compared with current attempts to combine FCNs and global reasoning methods, we fully extracted the ability of self-attention by designing a novel attention mechanism for 3D computation and proposed a new segmentation framework (named 3DTU) for three-dimensional medical image segmentation tasks. This new framework processes images in an end-to-end manner and executes 3D computation on both the encoder side (which contains a 3D transformer) and the decoder side (which is based on a 3D DCNN). We tested our framework on two independent datasets that consist of 3D MRI and CT images. Experimental results clearly demonstrate that our method outperforms several state-of-the-art segmentation methods in various metrics
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The LONI QC System: A Semi-Automated, Web-Based and Freely-Available Environment for the Comprehensive Quality Control of Neuroimaging Data.
Quantifying, controlling, and monitoring image quality is an essential prerequisite for ensuring the validity and reproducibility of many types of neuroimaging data analyses. Implementation of quality control (QC) procedures is the key to ensuring that neuroimaging data are of high-quality and their validity in the subsequent analyses. We introduce the QC system of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI): a web-based system featuring a workflow for the assessment of various modality and contrast brain imaging data. The design allows users to anonymously upload imaging data to the LONI-QC system. It then computes an exhaustive set of QC metrics which aids users to perform a standardized QC by generating a range of scalar and vector statistics. These procedures are performed in parallel using a large compute cluster. Finally, the system offers an automated QC procedure for structural MRI, which can flag each QC metric as being 'good' or 'bad.' Validation using various sets of data acquired from a single scanner and from multiple sites demonstrated the reproducibility of our QC metrics, and the sensitivity and specificity of the proposed Auto QC to 'bad' quality images in comparison to visual inspection. To the best of our knowledge, LONI-QC is the first online QC system that uniquely supports the variety of functionality where we compute numerous QC metrics and perform visual/automated image QC of multi-contrast and multi-modal brain imaging data. The LONI-QC system has been used to assess the quality of large neuroimaging datasets acquired as part of various multi-site studies such as the Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury (TRACK-TBI) Study and the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). LONI-QC's functionality is freely available to users worldwide and its adoption by imaging researchers is likely to contribute substantially to upholding high standards of brain image data quality and to implementing these standards across the neuroimaging community
3D bi-directional transformer U-Net for medical image segmentation
As one of the popular deep learning methods, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have been widely adopted in segmentation tasks and have received positive feedback. However, in segmentation tasks, DCNN-based frameworks are known for their incompetence in dealing with global relations within imaging features. Although several techniques have been proposed to enhance the global reasoning of DCNN, these models are either not able to gain satisfying performances compared with traditional fully-convolutional structures or not capable of utilizing the basic advantages of CNN-based networks (namely the ability of local reasoning). In this study, compared with current attempts to combine FCNs and global reasoning methods, we fully extracted the ability of self-attention by designing a novel attention mechanism for 3D computation and proposed a new segmentation framework (named 3DTU) for three-dimensional medical image segmentation tasks. This new framework processes images in an end-to-end manner and executes 3D computation on both the encoder side (which contains a 3D transformer) and the decoder side (which is based on a 3D DCNN). We tested our framework on two independent datasets that consist of 3D MRI and CT images. Experimental results clearly demonstrate that our method outperforms several state-of-the-art segmentation methods in various metrics
Interpretable Graph Representation Learning: New Theories and Applications
Recent decades have witnessed the prosperity of deep learning which has revolutionized a broad variety of fields, ranging from computer vision recognition to natural language understanding. Although deep learning has achieved great success on Euclidean data (e.g., images, language sequences), the studies and explorations of the deep learning methods on graph-structured data are far from enough. The graph-structured data, presenting the relations among different items, are ubiquitous in the real world, such as transportation networks, social networks, and biological networks. However, it is challenging for regular deep learning methods to capture the hierarchical structures rooted in the graph-structured data. Another limitation of the previous graph learning models is that most of them mainly focus on unsigned graphs (i.e., graphs that only include positive and negative edges) learning. Beyond these, most of the current graph learning models are not interpretable. To address these issues, new interpretable deep graph learning models are proposed for both signed and unsigned graphs to capture the hierarchical structures in graphs and yield whole graph representations for graph-level tasks (i.e., graph classifications, and regressions). Several graph-related applications are also presented to show the practical merits of graph-structured data to the AI community
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The LONI QC System: A Semi-Automated, Web-Based and Freely-Available Environment for the Comprehensive Quality Control of Neuroimaging Data.
Quantifying, controlling, and monitoring image quality is an essential prerequisite for ensuring the validity and reproducibility of many types of neuroimaging data analyses. Implementation of quality control (QC) procedures is the key to ensuring that neuroimaging data are of high-quality and their validity in the subsequent analyses. We introduce the QC system of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI): a web-based system featuring a workflow for the assessment of various modality and contrast brain imaging data. The design allows users to anonymously upload imaging data to the LONI-QC system. It then computes an exhaustive set of QC metrics which aids users to perform a standardized QC by generating a range of scalar and vector statistics. These procedures are performed in parallel using a large compute cluster. Finally, the system offers an automated QC procedure for structural MRI, which can flag each QC metric as being 'good' or 'bad.' Validation using various sets of data acquired from a single scanner and from multiple sites demonstrated the reproducibility of our QC metrics, and the sensitivity and specificity of the proposed Auto QC to 'bad' quality images in comparison to visual inspection. To the best of our knowledge, LONI-QC is the first online QC system that uniquely supports the variety of functionality where we compute numerous QC metrics and perform visual/automated image QC of multi-contrast and multi-modal brain imaging data. The LONI-QC system has been used to assess the quality of large neuroimaging datasets acquired as part of various multi-site studies such as the Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury (TRACK-TBI) Study and the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). LONI-QC's functionality is freely available to users worldwide and its adoption by imaging researchers is likely to contribute substantially to upholding high standards of brain image data quality and to implementing these standards across the neuroimaging community