Title
Learning Macroscopic Brain Connectomes via Group-Sparse Factorization
Abstract
Mapping structural brain connectomes for living human brains typically requires expert analysis and rule-based models on diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging. A data-driven approach, however, could overcome limitations in such rule-based approaches and improve precision mappings for individuals. In this work, we explore a framework that facilitates applying learning algorithms to automatically extract brain connectomes. Using a tensor encoding, we design an objective with a group-regularizer that prefers biologically plausible fascicle structure. We show that the objective is convex and has a unique solution, ensuring identifiable connectomes for an individual. We develop an efficient optimization strategy for this extremely high-dimensional sparse problem, by reducing the number of parameters using a greedy algorithm designed specifically for the problem. We show that this greedy algorithm significantly improves on a standard greedy algorithm, called Orthogonal Matching Pursuit. We conclude with an analysis of the solutions found by our method, showing we can accurately reconstruct the diffusion information while maintaining contiguous fascicles with smooth direction changes.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2019
ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 32 (NIPS 2019)
diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging
Field
DocType
Volume
Connectome,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Factorization,Machine learning
Conference
32
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1049-5258
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aminmansour, Farzane100.34
Andrew Patterson254.52
Lei Le381.86
Peng, Yisu400.34
Mitchell, Daniel500.34
Franco Pestilli643.84
C. F. Caiafa734915.08
R. Greiner82261218.93
Martha White919827.75