Summary of Time Series Generative Learning with Application to Brain Imaging Analysis, by Zhenghao Li et al.
Time Series Generative Learning with Application to Brain Imaging Analysis
by Zhenghao Li, Sanyou Wu, Long Feng
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Methodology (stat.ME)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper explores the analysis of sequential image data, particularly brain imaging data like MRI and fMRI, with a focus on understanding brain aging and neurodegenerative diseases. The authors formulate a min-max problem derived from the f-divergence between neighboring pairs to learn a time series generator in a nonparametric manner. This allows them to generate future images by transforming prior lag-k observations and a random vector from a reference distribution using a deep neural network learned generator. They prove that the joint distribution of the generated sequence converges to the latent truth under specific conditions. The authors also extend their generation mechanism to panel data, accommodating multiple samples. Evaluation is done through generating real brain MRI sequences from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative dataset, demonstrating potential for enhancing performance in downstream tasks like Alzheimer’s disease detection. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how to study sequential images of brains using special imaging techniques like MRI and fMRI. The goal is to understand how our brains change as we age and what causes diseases like Alzheimer’s. To do this, the authors create a new way to generate future brain image sequences by learning from earlier ones. They use deep learning to make this happen. The paper shows that their method works well on real brain images from a big dataset called the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. This could help improve how we detect and understand Alzheimer’s. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Neural network » Time series
