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Abstract #2157

Pointwise analysis of tract microstructure using geometric deep learning for language performance prediction

Yuqian Chen1, Leo Zekelman1, Chaoyi Zhang2, Tengfei Xue2, Yang Song3, Nikos Makris1, Yogesh Rathi1, Alexandra Golby1, Weidong Cai2, Fan Zhang4, and Lauren O’Donnell1
1Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, 2The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 3The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 4University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

Synopsis

Keywords: Tractography, Tractography & Fibre Modelling, Point cloud, Deep learning

Motivation: The prediction of cognitive performance scores using diffusion MRI tractography enables the study of relationships between brain structure and function.

Goal(s): Our goal is to achieve accurate prediction of cognition and identify critical brain regions for prediction.

Approach: We propose a geometric deep-learning framework for language score prediction. It utilizes a point cloud representation of fiber tracts for detailed spatial and microstructure information and incorporates a novel regression loss to utilize the continuity of language scores.

Results: Our method outperforms comparison methods with state-of-the-art representations of fiber tracts and identifies predictive language-related brain regions.

Impact: Our proposed novel geometric deep learning framework using a point cloud representation of fiber tracts can be applied to various tractography-based prediction tasks to improve performance and provide a probe to explore relationships between brain structure and function.

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