School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China.
Artif Intell Med. 2024 Nov;157:102996. doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2024.102996. Epub 2024 Oct 6.
Mental fatigue is defined as a decline in the ability and efficiency of mental activities. A lot of research suggests that the transition from alertness to fatigue is accompanied by alterations in correlation patterns among various brain regions. However, conventional methods for detecting mental fatigue seldom emphases inter-channel connectivity in the spatial domain. To fill this gap, this paper explores the spatial inter-channel connectivity in alertness and fatigue, employing spectral graph convolutional networks (GCN) for mental fatigue detection. We utilized Pearson correlation coefficients (PCC) to establish temporal connections and magnitude-squared coherence (MSC) for spectral connections. Topological features of the brain network were then analysed. To enhance the learning of spatial inter-channel connectivity, a dual-graph strategy transforms edge features into node features, serving as inputs to the spectral GCN. By simultaneously learning PCC and MSC features, the model results indicate significant differences in some brain network characteristics between alert and fatigue states. It confirms that the synchronicity of brain operations differs in the alert state compared to mental fatigue, and indicates that fatigue states can influence correlation patterns among different brain regions. Our approach is evaluated on a self-designed experimental dataset containing 7 subjects, demonstrating a classification accuracy of 89.59 % in group-level experiments and 95.24 % at the subject level. Additionally, on the public dataset SEED-VIG containing 23 subjects, our method achieves an accuracy of 86.58 %. In summary, this paper proposes a neural network approach based on a dynamic functional connectivity network. The network integrates both temporal and spectral connections with the goal of simultaneously learning spatial inter-channel connectivity in time and frequency domains. This effectively accomplishes fatigue state detection, highlighting that fatigue significantly influences correlations among different brain regions.
精神疲劳被定义为心理活动能力和效率的下降。大量研究表明,从警觉到疲劳的转变伴随着大脑各个区域之间相关模式的改变。然而,传统的检测精神疲劳的方法很少强调空间域中的通道间连通性。为了填补这一空白,本文探索了警觉和疲劳状态下的空间通道间连通性,采用谱图卷积网络(GCN)进行精神疲劳检测。我们使用皮尔逊相关系数(PCC)来建立时间连接,用幅度平方相干性(MSC)来建立谱连接。然后分析脑网络的拓扑特征。为了增强对空间通道间连通性的学习,双图策略将边缘特征转换为节点特征,作为谱 GCN 的输入。通过同时学习 PCC 和 MSC 特征,模型结果表明,在警觉和疲劳状态下,一些脑网络特征存在显著差异。这证实了与精神疲劳相比,大脑运作的同步性在警觉状态下有所不同,并表明疲劳状态会影响不同大脑区域之间的相关模式。我们的方法在一个包含 7 个被试者的自设计实验数据集上进行了评估,在组水平实验中的分类准确率为 89.59%,在个体水平上的准确率为 95.24%。此外,在包含 23 个被试者的公共数据集 SEED-VIG 上,我们的方法达到了 86.58%的准确率。总之,本文提出了一种基于动态功能连接网络的神经网络方法。该网络整合了时间和谱连接,旨在同时学习时域和频域中的空间通道间连通性。这有效地实现了疲劳状态检测,突出了疲劳对不同大脑区域之间相关性的显著影响。