CoHyFuse: Condition-wise Hypergraph Fusion with Global Connectome in Task-fMRI
Organizations: Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin, Republic of Korea
Abstract
Task-fMRI connectomes reveal state-dependent neural reconfigurations, yet conventional methods marginalize these signals by aggregating distinct conditions into static pairwise graphs, thereby obscuring condition-specific multi-ROI organization. We introduce CoHyFuse, a condition-aware ROI-centered hypergraph framework that constructs a task-state-specific incidence matrix from condition-wise functional connectivity (FC)-profile embeddings, allowing the same ROI to form different multi-ROI hyperedges across task phases. Condition-specific neighborhood sizes further adapt the hyperedge scale to each task state, and the resulting condition embeddings are fused with a complementary whole-session FC branch for prediction. In the AABC cohort (N=1,074), CoHyFuse achieved the best mean out-of-fold predictive performance among evaluated baselines on FACENAME Fluid Cognition Composite (FCC) prediction (7.830.10 MAE, 0.4390.026 ) and VISMOTOR age prediction (7.520.37 MAE, 0.5920.022 ). In an auxiliary CMI-HBN attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) classification benchmark (N=223), CoHyFuse obtained 72.02.1% macro-AUC and 74.22.9% accuracy. Ablation studies support the contributions of condition-wise incidence construction and dual-view fusion, suggesting that state-resolved ROI-set structure provides complementary predictive information beyond whole-session FC alone. Occlusion analysis identifies the Distraction condition as the primary driver of model prediction, pointing toward the Salience/Ventral Attention Network (SAN)--FrontoParietal Network (FPN) and within-SAN hyperedge-defined ROI-set motifs as candidate model-relevant patterns. This framework provides an interpretable, state-resolved view of the connectome for downstream cohort analysis.
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| Subjects (N) | Sex (M/F) | Age (Mean Std) | FCC (Mean Std) |
| 1,074 | 495 / 579 |
| Group | Subjects (N) | Sex (M/F) | Age (Mean Std) |
| NoDx | 68 | 37 / 31 | |
| ADHD-I | 75 | 45 / 30 | |
| ADHD-C | 80 | 42 / 38 |
| Model | Year | FACENAME | VISMOTOR | ||||
| MAE | RMSE | MAE | RMSE | ||||
| SVM | 1995 | ||||||
| MLP | 1986 | ||||||
| GCN [ 7 ] | 2017 | ||||||
| GAT [ 8 ] | 2018 | ||||||
| HGNN [ 5 ] | 2019 | ||||||
| Method | MAE | |
| w/o Whole FC | ||
| w/o Cond. branch | ||
| w/o ENC cond. | ||
| w/o DIST cond. | ||
| w/o REC cond. | ||
| Proposed |
| Variant | MAE | |
| CoHyFuse-MLP | ||
| CoHyFuse-GCN | ||
| CoHyFuse-GAT | ||
| CoHyFuse-HGNN |
| Scheme | MAE | ||
| Shared- | |||
| Cond- | |||
| Distance | MAE | |
| Euclidean | ||
| Cosine | ||
| Correlation |
| Model | mAUC (%) | ACC (%) | SEN N (%) | SEN I (%) | SEN C (%) |
| SVM | 62.8 2.5 | 63.6 3.3 | 58.2 5.1 | 62.1 4.9 | 69.5 5.3 |
| MLP | 63.9 3.0 | 65.2 3.8 | 61.2 5.4 | 63.4 5.1 | 70.2 5.4 |
| GCN [ 7 ] | 60.6 3.4 | 61.2 4.2 | 57.5 5.8 | 59.8 5.6 | 65.5 6.0 |
| GAT [ 8 ] | 61.2 3.2 | 62.6 4.1 | 59.3 5.5 | 60.8 5.4 | 66.9 5.8 |
| HGNN [ 5 ] | 67.1 2.8 | 68.4 3.5 | 65.3 4.7 | 66.7 4.6 | 72.6 5.0 |
| HNHN [ 10 ] | 66.8 2.8 | 68.0 3.6 | 65.1 4.8 | 66.4 4.6 | 71.8 5.1 |