Self-Supervised Pre-training Tasks for an fMRI Time-series Transformer in Autism Detection

• Published in: arXiv.org
• Main Authors: Zhou, Yinchi, Duan, Peiyu, Du, Yuexi, Dvornek, Nicha C
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 18.09.2024
• Subjects: Autism; Availability; Data analysis; Datasets; Machine learning; Magnetic resonance imaging; Masking; Performance evaluation; Time series; Transformers

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that encompasses a wide variety of symptoms and degrees of impairment, which makes the diagnosis and treatment challenging. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been extensively used to study brain activity in ASD, and mach...