Multi-site MRI harmonization via attention-guided deep domain adaptation for brain disorder identification.

ABSTRACT: Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has shown great clinical and practical values in computer-aided brain disorder identification. Multi-site MRI data increase sample size and statistical power, but are susceptible to inter-site heterogeneity caused by different scanners, scanning protocols, and subject cohorts. Multi-site MRI harmonization (MMH) helps alleviate the inter-site difference for subsequent analysis. Some MMH methods performed at imaging level or feature extraction level are concise but lack robustness and flexibility to some extent. Even though several machine/deep learning-based methods have been proposed for MMH, some of them require a portion of labeled data in the to-be-analyzed target domain or ignore the potential contributions of different brain regions to the i

SUBMITTER: Guan H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8184627 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature