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ArticleHuman brain mapping2024

Classification of MDD using a Transformer classifier with large-scale multisite resting-state fMRI data.

Peishan Dai, Ying Zhou, Yun Shi, Da Lu, Zailiang Chen, Beiji Zou, Kun Liu, Shenghui Liao, REST-meta-MDD Consortium

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Peishan DaiSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5531-2085
Ying ZhouSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Yun ShiSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Da LuSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Zailiang ChenSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Beiji ZouSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Kun LiuBrain Hospital of Hunan Province (The Second People's Hospital of Hunan Province), Changsha, China.
Shenghui LiaoSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
REST-meta-MDD Consortium
Central South University · CNSecond People Hospital of Hunan · CN

Funding

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South UniversityThe National Natural Science Foundation of China 82372039The Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province of China 2023JJ30695
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most common psychiatric disorders worldwide with high recurrence rate. Identifying MDD patients, particularly those with recurrent episodes with resting-state fMRI, may reveal the relationship between MDD and brain function. We proposed a Transformer-Encoder model, which utilized functional connectivity extracted from large-scale multisite rs-fMRI datasets to classify MDD and HC. The model discarded the Transformer's Decoder part, reducing the model's complexity and decreasing the number of parameters to adapt to the limited sample size and it does not require a complex feature selection process and achieves end-to-end classification. Additionally, our model is suitable for classifying data combined from multiple brain atlases and has an optional unsupervised pre-training module to acquire optimal initial parameters and speed up the training process. The model's performance was tested on a large-scale multisite dataset and identified brain regions affected by MDD using the Grad-CAM method. After conducting five-fold cross-validation, our model achieved an average classification accuracy of 68.61% on a dataset consisting of 1611 samples. For the selected recurrent MDD dataset, the model reached an average classification accuracy of 78.11%. Abnormalities were detected in the frontal gyri and cerebral cortex of MDD patients in both datasets. Furthermore, the identified brain regions in the recurrent MDD dataset generally exhibited a higher contribution to the model's performance.

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Major Depressive DisorderBrainBrain MappingCerebral CortexHumansMagnetic Resonance Imagingclassificationfunctional connectivitymajor depressive disorderrecurrenceTransformer

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PMID38088473
PMCPMC10789197
OpenAlexW4389685368

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