PMID- 35884715
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220731
IS  - 2076-3425 (Print)
IS  - 2076-3425 (Electronic)
IS  - 2076-3425 (Linking)
VI  - 12
IP  - 7
DP  - 2022 Jul 12
TI  - Identifying Non-Math Students from Brain MRIs with an Ensemble Classifier Based 
      on Subspace-Enhanced Contrastive Learning.
LID - 10.3390/brainsci12070908 [doi]
LID - 908
AB  - In current research processes, mathematical learning has significantly impacted 
      the brain's plasticity and cognitive functions. While biochemical changes in 
      brain have been investigated by magnetic resonance spectroscopy, our study 
      attempts to identify non-math students by using magnetic resonance imaging scans 
      (MRIs). The proposed method crops the left middle front gyrus (MFG) region from 
      the MRI, resulting in a multi-instance classification problem. Then, subspace 
      enhanced contrastive learning is employed on all instances to learn robust deep 
      features, followed by an ensemble classifier based on multiple-layer-perceptron 
      models for student identification. The experiments were conducted on 123 MRIs 
      taken from 72 math students and 51 non-math students. The proposed method arrived 
      at an accuracy of 73.7% for image classification and 91.8% for student 
      classification. Results show the proposed workflow successfully identifies the 
      students who lack mathematical education by using MRI data. This study provides 
      insights into the impact of mathematical education on brain development from 
      structural imaging.
FAU - Liu, Shuhui
AU  - Liu S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8196-6880
AD  - School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, 
      China.
AD  - Key Laboratory of Big Data Storage and Management, MIIT, Xi'an 710129, China.
FAU - Zhang, Yupei
AU  - Zhang Y
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8348-0545
AD  - School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, 
      China.
AD  - Key Laboratory of Big Data Storage and Management, MIIT, Xi'an 710129, China.
FAU - Peng, Jiajie
AU  - Peng J
AD  - School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, 
      China.
AD  - Key Laboratory of Big Data Storage and Management, MIIT, Xi'an 710129, China.
FAU - Wang, Tao
AU  - Wang T
AD  - School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, 
      China.
AD  - Key Laboratory of Big Data Storage and Management, MIIT, Xi'an 710129, China.
FAU - Shang, Xuequn
AU  - Shang X
AD  - School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, 
      China.
AD  - Key Laboratory of Big Data Storage and Management, MIIT, Xi'an 710129, China.
LA  - eng
GR  - 61802313, U1811262, 62072376/National Natural Science Foundation of China/
GR  - 2021JGY31/the Reformation Research on Education and Teaching at Northwestern 
      Polytechnical University/
GR  - 2020AAA0108500/the Key Research and Development Program of China/
GR  - GJGZZD202202/the Higher Research Funding on International Talent cultivation at 
      Northwestern Polytechnical University/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220712
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Brain Sci
JT  - Brain sciences
JID - 101598646
PMC - PMC9313452
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - MRIs identification
OT  - brain science
OT  - contrastive learning
OT  - neuroscience
COIS- The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
EDAT- 2022/07/28 06:00
MHDA- 2022/07/28 06:01
PMCR- 2022/07/12
CRDT- 2022/07/27 01:11
PHST- 2022/05/25 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/06/18 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/07/08 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/07/27 01:11 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/07/28 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/07/28 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/07/12 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - brainsci12070908 [pii]
AID - brainsci-12-00908 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/brainsci12070908 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Brain Sci. 2022 Jul 12;12(7):908. doi: 10.3390/brainsci12070908.