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Joint self-supervised and supervised contrastive learning for multimodal MRI data: Towards predicting abnormal neurodevelopment

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Li, Zhiyuan, Li, Hailong, Ralescu, Anca L., Dillman, Jonathan R., Altaye, Mekibib, Cecil, Kim M., Parikh, Nehal A., He, Lili·2024·Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Abstract

The integration of different imaging modalities, such as structural, diffusion tensor, and functional magnetic resonance imaging, with deep learning models has yielded promising outcomes in discerning phenotypic characteristics and enhancing disease diagnosis. The development of such a technique hinges on the efficient fusion of heterogeneous multimodal features, which initially reside within distinct representation spaces. Naively fusing the multimodal features does not adequately capture the complementary information and could even produce redundancy. In this work, we present a novel joint self-supervised and supervised contrastive learning method to learn the robust latent feature representation from multimodal MRI data, allowing the projection of heterogeneous features into a shared common space, and thereby amalgamating both complementary and analogous information across various modalities and among similar subjects. We performed a comparative analysis between our proposed method and alternative deep multimodal learning approaches. Through extensive experiments on two independent datasets, the results demonstrated that our method is significantly superior to several other deep multimodal learning methods in predicting abnormal neurodevelopment. Our method has the capability to facilitate computer-aided diagnosis within clinical practice, harnessing the power of multimodal data. The source code of the proposed model is publicly accessible on GitHub: https://github.com/leonzyzy/Contrastive-Network.

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Authors
Li, Z., Li, H., Ralescu, A. L., Dillman, J. R., Altaye, M., Cecil, K. M., Parikh, N. A., & He, L.
Affiliations
  • Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (US)
  • University of Cincinnati (US)
Corresponding author
He, Lili
Venue
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2024-11
Volume
157
Pages
102993
ISSN
0933-3657 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4402980788
Cited by
10
References
93
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 1
FWCI
2.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
National Institutes of Health
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Keywords
multimodal MRI, contrastive learning, self-supervised learning, multimodal fusion, shared latent representation, diffusion tensor imaging, structural MRI, functional MRI, computer-aided diagnosis
MeSH terms
Supervised Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Brain, Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted, Humans, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Multimodal Imaging, Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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