Deep Transfer Learning for Whole-Brain FMRI Analyses

Armin W. Thomas, Klaus Robert Müller, Wojciech Samek

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Abstract

The application of deep learning (DL) models to the decoding of cognitive states from whole-brain functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data is often hindered by the small sample size and high dimensionality of these datasets. Especially, in clinical settings, where patient data are scarce. In this work, we demonstrate that transfer learning represents a solution to this problem. Particularly, we show that a DL model, which has been previously trained on a large openly available fMRI dataset of the Human Connectome Project, outperforms a model variant with the same architecture, but which is trained from scratch, when both are applied to the data of a new, unrelated fMRI task. The pre-trained DL model variant is able to correctly decode 67.51% of the cognitive states from a test dataset with 100 individuals, when fine-tuned on a dataset of the size of only three subjects.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOR 2.0 Context-Aware Operating Theaters and Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging - 2nd International Workshop, OR 2.0 2019, and 2nd International Workshop, MLCN 2019, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2019, Proceedings
EditorsLuping Zhou, Duygu Sarikaya, Seyed Mostafa Kia, Stefanie Speidel, Anand Malpani, Daniel Hashimoto, Mohamad Habes, Tommy Löfstedt, Kerstin Ritter, Hongzhi Wang
PublisherSpringer
Pages59-67
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030326944
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event2nd International Workshop on Context-Aware Surgical Theaters, OR 2.0 2019, and the 2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging, MLCN 2019, held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 2019 Oct 172019 Oct 17

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11796 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd International Workshop on Context-Aware Surgical Theaters, OR 2.0 2019, and the 2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging, MLCN 2019, held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period19/10/1719/10/17

Keywords

  • Decoding
  • Deep learning
  • Transfer learning
  • fMRI

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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