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Features fusion of brain networks and its application to autism recognition by machine learning based on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging
ZHAO Xiaohu  GE Manling  CHEN Shenghua  WANG Lei  SONG Zibo  XIE Chong  YANG Zekun 

Cite this article as: Zhao XH, Ge ML, Chen SH, et al. Features fusion of brain networks and its application to autism recognition by machine learning based on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2021, 12(12): 55-61. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2021.12.011.


[Abstract] Objective The resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) technology combined with machine learning algorithm was used to classify the patients with autism, trying to provide reference for early identification of autism. Materials and Methods: The rs-fMRI data of a total of 24 patients with autism and 25 healthy people were pre-processed. Then, the partial correlation functional connection (FC) was used to construct the network and the sparsity space of 0.05—0.50 with a step size of 0.05, the brain functional networks were constructed by GRETNA software.A total of 4 local nodes metrics were calculated respectively for patients and healthy individuals. Finally, the proportion of classification accuracy of each index is used as the weight coefficient for feature fusion, so as to construct the feature vector, input into the support vector machine model for classification and cross validation to test the feature fusion effect.Results The average accuracy of weighted features fusion can reach up 89.47%, which is 21.05% higher than that of a single feature and 4.74% higher than non-weighted feature fusion method.Conclusions This work might provide a new index and a new method to recognize the autism by rs-fMRI.
[Keywords] autism spectrum disorders；brain functional network；weighted feature fusion；machine learning；resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging

ZHAO Xiaohu1, 2   GE Manling1, 2   CHEN Shenghua1, 2*   WANG Lei3*   SONG Zibo1, 2   XIE Chong1, 2   YANG Zekun1, 2  

1 State Key Laboratory of Reliability and Intelligence of Electrical Equipment, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, China

2 Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Field and Electrical Apparatus Reliability of Hebei Province, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, China

3 Langfang Polytechnic College, Langfang 065001, China

Chen SH, E-mail: chenshenghua@hebut.edu.cn Wang L, E-mail: wanglei1982615@163.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (No. E2019202019); Key Projects of Science and Technology Research in Hebei Province (No. ZD2021025).
Received  2021-07-17
Accepted  2021-09-18
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2021.12.011
Cite this article as: Zhao XH, Ge ML, Chen SH, et al. Features fusion of brain networks and its application to autism recognition by machine learning based on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2021, 12(12): 55-61. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2021.12.011.

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