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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder severely impacting social abilities. Previous research has demonstrated impairments in functional brain connections among individuals with ASD. This paper proposed a novel diagnostic strategy for ASD using spatial-temporal deep neural networks (DNN) integrating the self-attention mechanism. Specifically, we employed sliding window method in the temporal dimension to construct dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) data and applied Kendall's rank correlation coefficient to extract features. Subsequently, deep neural networks based on multi-head self-attention mechanism were designed to extract more discriminative spatial and temporal high-level abstract features. The learned spatial-temporal features from multiple layers of multi-head self-attention were concatenated and subsequently incorporated with feed-forward neural networks. We designed a novel disagreement regularization term combined with cross-entropy loss for classification. We conducted systematic experiments on the large-scale ASD dataset. Both 10-fold and inter-site cross-validation results outperform existing classical studies in ASD classification, suggesting the effectiveness of the proposed model. Moreover, we identified the discriminative functional connections associated with ASD classification. © 2023 IEEE.
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Year: 2023
Page: 1856-1859
Language: English
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SCOPUS Cited Count: 3
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