Using Structural Similarity And Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks For Anatomical Embedding Of Cortical Folding Patterns

Author

Minheng Chen
Chao Cao
Tong Chen
Yan Zhuang
Jing Zhang
Yanjun Lyu
Xiaowei Yu, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow
Lu Zhang
Tianming Liu
Dajiang Zhu

Abstract

The 3-hinge gyrus (3HG) is a newly defined folding pattern, which is the conjunction of gyri coming from three directions in cortical folding. Many studies demonstrated that 3HGs can be reliable nodes when constructing brain networks or connectome since they simultaneously possess commonality and individuality across different individual brains and populations. However, 3HGs are identified and validated within individual spaces, making it difficult to directly serve as the brain network nodes due to the absence of cross-subject correspondence. The 3HG correspondences represent the intrinsic regulation of brain organizational architecture, traditional image-based registration methods tend to fail because individual anatomical properties need to be fully respected. To address this challenge, we propose a novel self-supervised framework for anatomical feature embedding of the 3HGs to build the correspondences among different brains. The core component of this framework is to construct a structural similarity-enhanced multi-hop feature encoding strategy based on the recently developed Kolmogorov-Arnold network (KAN) for anatomical feature embedding. Extensive experiments suggest that our approach can effectively establish robust cross-subject correspondences when no one-to-one mapping exists. The code is available at github.com/m1nhengChen/SSE-CortexEmbed.

Recommended Citation

M. Chen and C. Cao and T. Chen and Y. Zhuang and J. Zhang and Y. Lyu and X. Yu and L. Zhang and T. Liu and D. Zhu, "Using Structural Similarity And Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks For Anatomical Embedding Of Cortical Folding Patterns," Proceedings International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Jan 2025.

The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI60581.2025.10981274

Department(s)

Computer Science

Comments

National Institutes of Health, Grant R01AG075582

Keywords and Phrases

3HG; Cortical folding pattern embedding; Kolmogorov-Arnold networks; Structural similarity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1945-8452; 1945-7928

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

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Language(s)

English

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© 2025 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2025