Anatomically informed data augmentation for functional MRI with applications to deep learning

Kevin P. Nguyen; Cherise Chin Fatt; Alex Treacher; Cooper Mellema; Madhukar H. Trivedi; Albert Montillo

doi:10.1117/12.2548630

10 March 2020 Anatomically informed data augmentation for functional MRI with applications to deep learning

Kevin P. Nguyen, Cherise Chin Fatt, Alex Treacher, Cooper Mellema, Madhukar H. Trivedi, Albert Montillo

Proceedings Volume 11313, Medical Imaging 2020: Image Processing; 113130T (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2548630
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2020, Houston, Texas, United States

Abstract

The application of deep learning to build accurate predictive models from functional neuroimaging data is often hindered by limited dataset sizes. Though data augmentation can help mitigate such training obstacles, most data augmentation methods have been developed for natural images as in computer vision tasks such as CIFAR, not for medical images. This work helps to fills in this gap by proposing a method for generating new functional Magnetic Resonance Images (fMRI) with realistic brain morphology. This method is tested on a challenging task of predicting antidepressant treatment response from pre-treatment task-based fMRI and demonstrates a 26% improvement in performance in predicting response using augmented images. This improvement compares favorably to state-of-the-art augmentation methods for natural images. Through an ablative test, augmentation is also shown to substantively improve performance when applied before hyperparameter optimization. These results suggest the optimal order of operations and support the role of data augmentation method for improving predictive performance in tasks using fMRI.

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Kevin P. Nguyen, Cherise Chin Fatt, Alex Treacher, Cooper Mellema, Madhukar H. Trivedi, and Albert Montillo "Anatomically informed data augmentation for functional MRI with applications to deep learning", Proc. SPIE 11313, Medical Imaging 2020: Image Processing, 113130T (10 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2548630

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