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    • Psychiatry
    • Machine Learning

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    • Mental disorders like schizophrenia exhibit significant individual variability, complicating diagnosis and treatment.
    • Previous research often overlooked within-group heterogeneity, focusing primarily on group-level differences.
    • Understanding individual differences in brain function is crucial for advancing psychiatric research.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel approach using variational autoencoders (VAEs) to visualize and analyze static functional network connectivity (sFNC) in individuals with schizophrenia.
    • To simultaneously capture group-specific patterns in schizophrenia patients and controls.
    • To address the challenge of characterizing individual heterogeneity within mental disorders.

    Main Methods:

    • A variational autoencoder (VAE) model was employed to interpolate static functional network connectivity (sFNC) across individuals.
    • The VAE latent space was used to visualize original sFNC data in a 2D grid.
    • Group-specific patterns between schizophrenia patients and controls were captured concurrently.

    Main Results:

    • A high degree of correspondence was observed between the generated and original sFNC data.
    • The VAE framework successfully visualized individual sFNC patterns within a 2D latent space.
    • The method demonstrated the ability to capture both individual variability and group-specific connectivity patterns.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed VAE framework offers a powerful tool for visualizing complex brain connectivity data.
    • This approach can potentially aid in predicting an individual's position on a disorder continuum.
    • The method facilitates the characterization of individual heterogeneity in mental disorders, advancing personalized medicine in psychiatry.