bibtext: @InProceedings{ Liu_Affinity_MICCAI2024,
                   author = { Liu, Mengjun and Song, Zhiyun and Chen, Dongdong and Wang, Xin and Zhuang, Zixu and Fei, Manman and Zhang, Lichi and Wang, Qian },
                   title = { { Affinity Learning Based Brain Function Representation for Disease Diagnosis } },
                   booktitle = {Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention -- MICCAI 2024},
                   year = {2024},
                   publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
                   volume = { LNCS 15002 },
                   month = {October},
                   pages = { pending },
                }
abstract: Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) serves as a potent means to quantify brain functional connectivity (FC), which holds potential in diagnosing diseases. However, conventional FC measures may fall short in encapsulating the intricate functional dynamics of the brain; for instance, FC computed via Pearson correlation merely captures linear statistical dependencies among signals from different brain regions. In this study, we propose an affinity learning framework for modeling FC, leveraging a pre-training model to discern informative function representation among brain regions. Specifically, we employ randomly sampled patches and encode them to generate region embeddings, which are subsequently utilized by the proposed affinity learning module to deduce function representation between any pair of regions via an affinity encoder and a signal reconstruction decoder. Moreover, we integrate supervision from large language model (LLM) to incorporate prior brain function knowledge. We evaluate the efficacy of our framework across two datasets. The results from downstream brain disease diagnosis tasks underscore the effectiveness and generalizability of the acquired function representation. In summary, our approach furnishes a novel perspective on brain function representation in connectomics. Our code is available at https://github.com/mjliu2020/ALBFR.
title: Affinity Learning Based Brain Function Representation for Disease Diagnosis
authors: Liu, Mengjun Song, Zhiyun Chen, Dongdong Wang, Xin Zhuang, Zixu Fei, Manman Zhang, Lichi Wang, Qian