Sun Ang, Chen Ning, He Li, Zhang Junran
College of Electrical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, P. R. China.
Department of Neurology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China.
Sheng Wu Yi Xue Gong Cheng Xue Za Zhi. 2023 Feb 25;40(1):110-117. doi: 10.7507/1001-5515.202206060.
The extraction of neuroimaging features of migraine patients and the design of identification models are of great significance for the auxiliary diagnosis of related diseases. Compared with the commonly used image features, this study directly uses time-series signals to characterize the functional state of the brain in migraine patients and healthy controls, which can effectively utilize the temporal information and reduce the computational effort of classification model training. Firstly, Group Independent Component Analysis and Dictionary Learning were used to segment different brain areas for small-sample groups and then the regional average time-series signals were extracted. Next, the extracted time series were divided equally into multiple subseries to expand the model input sample. Finally, the time series were modeled using a bi-directional long-short term memory network to learn the pre-and-post temporal information within each time series to characterize the periodic brain state changes to improve the diagnostic accuracy of migraine. The results showed that the classification accuracy of migraine patients and healthy controls was 96.94%, the area under the curve was 0.98, and the computation time was relatively shorter. The experiments indicate that the method in this paper has strong applicability, and the combination of time-series feature extraction and bi-directional long-short term memory network model can be better used for the classification and diagnosis of migraine. This work provides a new idea for the lightweight diagnostic model based on small-sample neuroimaging data, and contributes to the exploration of the neural discrimination mechanism of related diseases.
偏头痛患者神经影像特征的提取及识别模型的设计对相关疾病的辅助诊断具有重要意义。与常用的图像特征相比,本研究直接使用时间序列信号来表征偏头痛患者和健康对照者大脑的功能状态,这可以有效利用时间信息并减少分类模型训练的计算量。首先,使用组独立成分分析和字典学习对小样本组的不同脑区进行分割,然后提取区域平均时间序列信号。接下来,将提取的时间序列平均划分为多个子序列以扩展模型输入样本。最后,使用双向长短期记忆网络对时间序列进行建模,以学习每个时间序列内的前后时间信息,从而表征周期性的脑状态变化,提高偏头痛的诊断准确性。结果表明,偏头痛患者和健康对照者的分类准确率为96.94%,曲线下面积为0.98,且计算时间相对较短。实验表明,本文方法具有较强的适用性,时间序列特征提取与双向长短期记忆网络模型相结合能够更好地用于偏头痛的分类诊断。这项工作为基于小样本神经影像数据的轻量级诊断模型提供了新思路,并有助于探索相关疾病的神经鉴别机制。