Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Multi-Level High-Order Functional Networks Derived From Resting-State Functional MRI
Functional brain networks derived from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) have been widely used for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis. Typically, these networks are constructed by calculating functional connectivity (FC) between any pair of brain regions of interest...
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| author | Feng Zhao Han Zhang Islem Rekik Zhiyong An Dinggang Shen Dinggang Shen |
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| description | Functional brain networks derived from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) have been widely used for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis. Typically, these networks are constructed by calculating functional connectivity (FC) between any pair of brain regions of interest (ROIs), i.e., using Pearson's correlation between rs-fMRI time series. However, this can only be called as a low-order representation of the functional interaction, because the relationship is investigated just between two ROIs. Brain disorders might not only affect low-order FC, but also high-order FC, i.e., the higher-level relationship among multiple brain regions, which might be more crucial for diagnosis. To comprehensively characterize such relationship for better diagnosis of ASD, we propose a multi-level, high-order FC network representation that can nicely capture complex interactions among brain regions. Then, we design a feature selection method to identify those discriminative multi-level, high-order FC features for ASD diagnosis. Finally, we design an ensemble classifier with multiple linear SVMs, each trained on a specific level of FC networks, for boosting the final classification accuracy. Experimental results show that the integration of both low-order and first-level high-order FC networks achieves the best ASD diagnostic accuracy (81%). We further investigated those selected discriminative low-order and high-order FC features and found that the high-order FC features can provide complementary information to the low-order FC features in the ASD diagnosis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9cdf67a0989644ab85a6e3e992b2179f2022-12-22T00:59:51ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience1662-51612018-05-011210.3389/fnhum.2018.00184365133Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Multi-Level High-Order Functional Networks Derived From Resting-State Functional MRIFeng Zhao0Han Zhang1Islem Rekik2Zhiyong An3Dinggang Shen4Dinggang Shen5School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong Technology and Business University, Yantai, ChinaDepartment of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesBASIRA Lab, CVIP Group, Computing, School of Science and Engineering, University of Dundee, Dundee, United KingdomSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong Technology and Business University, Yantai, ChinaDepartment of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, South KoreaFunctional brain networks derived from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) have been widely used for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis. Typically, these networks are constructed by calculating functional connectivity (FC) between any pair of brain regions of interest (ROIs), i.e., using Pearson's correlation between rs-fMRI time series. However, this can only be called as a low-order representation of the functional interaction, because the relationship is investigated just between two ROIs. Brain disorders might not only affect low-order FC, but also high-order FC, i.e., the higher-level relationship among multiple brain regions, which might be more crucial for diagnosis. To comprehensively characterize such relationship for better diagnosis of ASD, we propose a multi-level, high-order FC network representation that can nicely capture complex interactions among brain regions. Then, we design a feature selection method to identify those discriminative multi-level, high-order FC features for ASD diagnosis. Finally, we design an ensemble classifier with multiple linear SVMs, each trained on a specific level of FC networks, for boosting the final classification accuracy. Experimental results show that the integration of both low-order and first-level high-order FC networks achieves the best ASD diagnostic accuracy (81%). We further investigated those selected discriminative low-order and high-order FC features and found that the high-order FC features can provide complementary information to the low-order FC features in the ASD diagnosis.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00184/fullautism spectrum disorderhigh-order functional connectivitybrain networkresting-state fMRIlearning-based classification |
| spellingShingle | Feng Zhao Han Zhang Islem Rekik Zhiyong An Dinggang Shen Dinggang Shen Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Multi-Level High-Order Functional Networks Derived From Resting-State Functional MRI Frontiers in Human Neuroscience autism spectrum disorder high-order functional connectivity brain network resting-state fMRI learning-based classification |
| title | Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Multi-Level High-Order Functional Networks Derived From Resting-State Functional MRI |
| title_full | Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Multi-Level High-Order Functional Networks Derived From Resting-State Functional MRI |
| title_fullStr | Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Multi-Level High-Order Functional Networks Derived From Resting-State Functional MRI |
| title_full_unstemmed | Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Multi-Level High-Order Functional Networks Derived From Resting-State Functional MRI |
| title_short | Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Multi-Level High-Order Functional Networks Derived From Resting-State Functional MRI |
| title_sort | diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders using multi level high order functional networks derived from resting state functional mri |
| topic | autism spectrum disorder high-order functional connectivity brain network resting-state fMRI learning-based classification |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00184/full |
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