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How to Integrate Data from Multiple Biological Layers in Mental Health?

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Integrating information from multiple biological layers is a key approach to unraveling the complexities of the human brain, with its multiple overlapping structural and functional subsystems operating at widely different temporal and spatial scales. Moreover, it has true potential to positively impact mental health patients through early diagnosis and individualized treatment. This chapter lays out a succession of approaches to synergistic fusion of multimodal brain imaging data, with a special focus on blind source separation (BSS) and deep learning (DL) methods. Firstly, a broad unified description of the BSS field is introduced, serving as a theoretical backbone for the chapter. Complementary to that, a detailed case study of three different applications of joint independent component analysis (jICA) provides both a reference guide on data fusion and a bridge into more advanced BSS methods. Various advanced BSS methods such as multiset canonical correlation analysis (mCCA), multi-way partial least squares (N-PLS), independent vector analysis (IVA) and Parallel ICA are then reviewed and discussed in terms of their strengths and limitations. Finally, DL methods are introduced, focusing on three important applications: classification utilizing strategies for multimodal data augmentation, embedding of learned representations in order to reveal disease severity spectra, and multimodal tissue segmentation.

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    While here “multi-way” refers to the order of a tensor (i.e., the number of data dimensions), the term multi-way has also been used in the literature to refer to the number of modalities being fused.

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    IVA-G is identical to mCCA with the GENVAR cost, except it also allows non-orthogonal W.

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    The IVA cost is a sum of M separate ICAs (one per dataset) with an additional term to increase/retain the mutual information between corresponding sources across datasets.

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    The MATLAB code used for this study (available at http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/ukbiobank/nnpaper/ukb_NN.m) actually implements this step as \(\left [\mathbf { A}_{\mathrm {CCA},1}, {\mathbf {A}}_{\mathrm {CCA},2}\right ] = F\left ({\mathbf {R}}^{\mathbf {y}\mathbf {x}}\right )\), where F(⋅) = atanh(⋅) is the element-wise Fisher transform of the C × (N 1 + N 2) cross-correlation matrix \({\mathbf {R}}^{\mathbf {y}\mathbf {x}} = \mathrm {diag}\left ({\mathbf {Y}}_{\mathrm {CCA}}^{} {\mathbf {Y}}_{\mathrm {CCA}}^\top \right )^{-\frac {1}{2}} (\mathbf { Y}_{\mathrm {CCA}}^{} \mathbf {X}) \mathrm {diag} \left ({\mathbf {X}}^\top \mathbf { X}\right )^{-\frac {1}{2}}\) between y CCA and x , diag(B) is a diagonal matrix containing only the diagonal elements of B, and \(\mathbf {X} = \left [{\mathbf {X}}_1, {\mathbf {X}}_2\right ]\) is a matrix concatenation. Equivalence to the form indicated in the main text is claimed but not proven.

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    Note that the implementation of mCCA+jICA in that work utilized simple matrix transpose instead of the pseudo-inverses indicted above, possibly presuming that the columns of \({\mathbf {Y}}_{\mathrm {CCA}}^{\top }\) and rows of \(\left [{\mathbf {Y}}_{\mathrm {jICA},1}^{}, \mathbf { Y}_{\mathrm {jICA},2}^{}\right ]\) are orthonormal due to uncorrelation and independence, respectively.

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We would like to thank Dr. Vince Calhoun for the useful discussions, as well as Alvaro Ulloa and Aleksandr Fedorov for kindly providing some of the images and results presented here. This work was supported by NIH grants R01EB006841 (SP), 2R01EB005846 (RS), and R01EB020407 (RS), NSF grants IIS-1318759 (SP), 1539067 (RS), and NIH NIGMS Center of Biomedical Research Excellent (COBRE) grant 5P20RR021938/P20GM103472/P30GM122734.

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Silva, R.F., Plis, S.M. (2019). How to Integrate Data from Multiple Biological Layers in Mental Health?. In: Passos, I., Mwangi, B., Kapczinski, F. (eds) Personalized Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03553-2_8

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