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Multi-Task Collaborative Pre-Training and Adaptive Token Selection: A Unified Framework for Brain Representation Learning

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Ning Jiang
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Gongshu Wang
叶初阳 (Chuyang Ye)
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Tiantian Liu
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Tianyi Yan *
DOI:10.1109/JBHI.2024.3416038delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) reveals the structural organization of the brain. Learning general brain representations from sMRI is an enduring topic in neuroscience. Previous deep learning models neglect that the brain, as the core of cognition, is distinct from other organs whose primary attribute is anatomy. Capturing the high-level representation associated with inter-individual cognitive variability is key to appropriately represent the brain. Given that this cognition-related information is subtle, mixed, and distributed in the brain structure, sMRI-based models need to both capture fine-grained details and understand how they relate to the overall global structure. Additionally, it is also necessary to explicitly express the cognitive information that implicitly embedded in local-global image features. Therefore, we propose MCPATS, a brain representation learning framework that combines Multi-task Collaborative Pre-training (MCP) and Adaptive Token Selection (ATS). First, we develop MCP, including mask-reconstruction to understand global context, distort-restoration to capture fine-grained local details, adversarial learning to integrate features at different granularities, and age-prediction, using age as a surrogate for cognition to explicitly encode cognition-related information from local-global image features. This co-training allows progressive learning of implicit and explicit cognition-related representations. Then, we develop ATS based on mutual attention for downstream use of the learned representation. During fine-tuning, the ATS highlights discriminative features and reduces the impact of irrelevant information. MCPATS was validated on three different public datasets for brain disease diagnosis, outperforming competing methods and achieving accurate diagnosis. Further, we performed detailed analysis to confirm that the MCPATS-learned representation captures cognition-related information.
Keywords:
Task analysis
Brain
Brain modeling
Feature extraction
Representation learning
Multitasking
Cognition
Brain representation learning
multi-task collaborative pre-training
adaptive token selection
brain structure-behavior relationships
MRI

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IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics cover
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
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beijing institute of technology
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Papers: 3.9W
Citations: 63