Browsing by Author "Tong, Boning"

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    Distance-weighted Sinkhorn loss for Alzheimer's disease classification
    (Elsevier, 2024-02-12) Wang, Zexuan; Zhan, Qipeng; Tong, Boning; Yang, Shu; Hou, Bojian; Huang, Heng; Saykin, Andrew J.; Thompson, Paul M.; Davatzikos, Christos; Shen, Li; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine
    Traditional loss functions such as cross-entropy loss often quantify the penalty for each mis-classified training sample without adequately considering its distance from the ground truth class distribution in the feature space. Intuitively, the larger this distance is, the higher the penalty should be. With this observation, we propose a penalty called distance-weighted Sinkhorn (DWS) loss. For each mis-classified training sample (with predicted label A and true label B), its contribution to the DWS loss positively correlates to the distance the training sample needs to travel to reach the ground truth distribution of all the A samples. We apply the DWS framework with a neural network to classify different stages of Alzheimer's disease. Our empirical results demonstrate that the DWS framework outperforms the traditional neural network loss functions and is comparable or better to traditional machine learning methods, highlighting its potential in biomedical informatics and data science.
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    Preference Matrix Guided Sparse Canonical Correlation Analysis for Mining Brain Imaging Genetic Associations in Alzheimer’s Disease
    (Elsevier, 2023) Sha, Jiahang; Bao, Jingxuan; Liu, Kefei; Yang, Shu; Wen, Zixuan; Wen, Junhao; Cui, Yuhan; Tong, Boning; Moore, Jason H.; Saykin, Andrew J.; Davatzikos, Christos; Long, Qi; Shen, Li; Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine
    Investigating the relationship between genetic variation and phenotypic traits is a key issue in quantitative genetics. Specifically for Alzheimer's disease, the association between genetic markers and quantitative traits remains vague while, once identified, will provide valuable guidance for the study and development of genetics-based treatment approaches. Currently, to analyze the association of two modalities, sparse canonical correlation analysis (SCCA) is commonly used to compute one sparse linear combination of the variable features for each modality, giving a pair of linear combination vectors in total that maximizes the cross-correlation between the analyzed modalities. One drawback of the plain SCCA model is that the existing findings and knowledge cannot be integrated into the model as priors to help extract interesting correlations as well as identify biologically meaningful genetic and phenotypic markers. To bridge this gap, we introduce preference matrix guided SCCA (PM-SCCA) that not only takes priors encoded as a preference matrix but also maintains computational simplicity. A simulation study and a real-data experiment are conducted to investigate the effectiveness of the model. Both experiments demonstrate that the proposed PM-SCCA model can capture not only genotype-phenotype correlation but also relevant features effectively.