GK-BSC: Graph Kernel-Based Brain States Construction With Dynamic Brain Networks and Application to Schizophrenia Identification

The dynamic brain network can reflect time-varying changes of the BLOD signal fluctuations, and has been widely used in the research of brain diseases identification. This network consists of a set of connection matrices, where each connection matrix represents the relationship between brain regions...

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Main Authors: Xinyan Yuan, Lingling Gu, Jiashuang Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9784863/
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Lingling Gu
Jiashuang Huang
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description The dynamic brain network can reflect time-varying changes of the BLOD signal fluctuations, and has been widely used in the research of brain diseases identification. This network consists of a set of connection matrices, where each connection matrix represents the relationship between brain regions under a certain period. Researchers often convert these matrices into vectors, and then use the K-means clustering method to divide these matrices into different brain states according to their vector-based distances. Through analyzing these states, they can identify some brain abnormalities. However, simply using the vector-based distances may lead to two problems: 1) it ignores the topological properties and underlying mechanisms of brain networks, and 2) it never considers individual differences between subjects. Hence, to solve these two problems, we propose a novel method, called GK-BSC, for constructing brain states with dynamic brain networks. Specifically, we first use the graph kernel rather than the vector-based distances to measure the similarities between connection matrices of the dynamic brain network. Then, we aggregate these matrices to generate brain states based on these calculated similarities. This aggregation operation is sustained several times on one subject, whereby each subject is represented by a set of hierarchical brain states. Finally, we extract features from these states, and feed them into the multi-instance support vector machine (MI-SVM) for identifying patients. Experiments on a real schizophrenia dataset suggest that our method not only improves the performance of schizophrenia identification, but also accurately locates the brain abnormalities.
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spelling doaj.art-7e9a536e87c34d4281a7a20be36be3da2022-12-22T00:39:20ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110585585856510.1109/ACCESS.2022.31787489784863GK-BSC: Graph Kernel-Based Brain States Construction With Dynamic Brain Networks and Application to Schizophrenia IdentificationXinyan Yuan0Lingling Gu1Jiashuang Huang2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9569School of Information Science and Technology, Nantong University, Nantong, ChinaDepartment of Science, Jiangsu Vocational College of Business, Nantong, ChinaSchool of Information Science and Technology, Nantong University, Nantong, ChinaThe dynamic brain network can reflect time-varying changes of the BLOD signal fluctuations, and has been widely used in the research of brain diseases identification. This network consists of a set of connection matrices, where each connection matrix represents the relationship between brain regions under a certain period. Researchers often convert these matrices into vectors, and then use the K-means clustering method to divide these matrices into different brain states according to their vector-based distances. Through analyzing these states, they can identify some brain abnormalities. However, simply using the vector-based distances may lead to two problems: 1) it ignores the topological properties and underlying mechanisms of brain networks, and 2) it never considers individual differences between subjects. Hence, to solve these two problems, we propose a novel method, called GK-BSC, for constructing brain states with dynamic brain networks. Specifically, we first use the graph kernel rather than the vector-based distances to measure the similarities between connection matrices of the dynamic brain network. Then, we aggregate these matrices to generate brain states based on these calculated similarities. This aggregation operation is sustained several times on one subject, whereby each subject is represented by a set of hierarchical brain states. Finally, we extract features from these states, and feed them into the multi-instance support vector machine (MI-SVM) for identifying patients. Experiments on a real schizophrenia dataset suggest that our method not only improves the performance of schizophrenia identification, but also accurately locates the brain abnormalities.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9784863/Dynamic brain networksschizophreniagraph kernelbrain states
spellingShingle Xinyan Yuan
Lingling Gu
Jiashuang Huang
GK-BSC: Graph Kernel-Based Brain States Construction With Dynamic Brain Networks and Application to Schizophrenia Identification
IEEE Access
Dynamic brain networks
schizophrenia
graph kernel
brain states
title GK-BSC: Graph Kernel-Based Brain States Construction With Dynamic Brain Networks and Application to Schizophrenia Identification
title_full GK-BSC: Graph Kernel-Based Brain States Construction With Dynamic Brain Networks and Application to Schizophrenia Identification
title_fullStr GK-BSC: Graph Kernel-Based Brain States Construction With Dynamic Brain Networks and Application to Schizophrenia Identification
title_full_unstemmed GK-BSC: Graph Kernel-Based Brain States Construction With Dynamic Brain Networks and Application to Schizophrenia Identification
title_short GK-BSC: Graph Kernel-Based Brain States Construction With Dynamic Brain Networks and Application to Schizophrenia Identification
title_sort gk bsc graph kernel based brain states construction with dynamic brain networks and application to schizophrenia identification
topic Dynamic brain networks
schizophrenia
graph kernel
brain states
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9784863/
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