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ReviewBiological psychiatry global open science2025

The Transition From Homogeneous to Heterogeneous Machine Learning in Neuropsychiatric Research.

Qingyu Zhao, Kate B Nooner, Susan F Tapert, Ehsan Adeli, Kilian M Pohl, Amy Kuceyeski, Mert R Sabuncu

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Review in Biological psychiatry global open science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. The progression of sex differences in brain networks across the lifespan.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  9. Embracing Model Heterogeneity for Better Brain-Behavior Associations.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Qingyu ZhaoDepartment of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.
Kate B NoonerDepartment of Psychology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina.
Susan F TapertDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California.
Ehsan AdeliDepartment of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Kilian M PohlDepartment of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Amy KuceyeskiDepartment of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.
Mert R SabuncuDepartment of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.

Funding

NCANDA: Data Analysis Resource - Uploading Legacy Data to NDAU24AA021697 · NIAAA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Adolf Pfefferbaum, Kilian Maria Pohl · 2016 to 2026
$12.2M
N-CANDA: DATA ANALYSIS COMPONENTU01AA021697 · NIAAA · SRI INTERNATIONAL · PI POHL, KILIAN MARIA · 2012 to 2015
$3.6M
Interpretable Deep Forecasting of Hazardous Substance Use during High SchoolR01DA057567 · NIDA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Kilian Maria Pohl, Susan F. Tapert · 2022 to 2026
$2.3M
Longitudinal Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Imaging to Discover Adolescent Alcohol Use EffectR00AA028840 · NIAAA · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Qingyu Zhao · 2024 to 2026
$747k
A facial expression-based personalization engine (FPE) for monitoring and modulating real-time effective engagement in cognitive training in older adults at risk for AD/ADRDR61AG084471 · NIA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI ADELI, EHSAN, LIN, FENG VANKEE · 2023 to 2024
$702k
Longitudinal Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Imaging to Discover Adolescent Alcohol Use EffectK99AA028840 · NIAAA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI ZHAO, QINGYU · 2021 to 2022
$284k
NIAAA NIH HHS K99 AA028840NIAAA NIH HHS R00 AA028840NIAAA NIH HHS U01 AA021697NIAAA NIH HHS U24 AA021697NIA NIH HHS R61 AG084471NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA057567
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the advantage of neuroimaging-based machine learning (ML) models as pivotal tools for investigating brain-behavior relationships in neuropsychiatric studies, these data-driven predictive approaches have yet to yield substantial, clinically actionable insights for mental health care. A notable impediment lies in the inadequate accommodation of most ML research to the natural heterogeneity within large samples. Although commonly thought of as individual-level analyses, many ML algorithms are unimodal and homogeneous and thus incapable of capturing the potentially heterogeneous relationships between biology and psychopathology. We review the current landscape of computational research targeting population heterogeneity and argue that there is a need to expand from brain subtyping and behavioral phenotyping to analyses that focus on heterogeneity at the relational level. To this end, we review and suggest several existing ML models with the capacity to discern how external environmental and sociodemographic factors moderate the brain-behavior mapping function in a data-driven fashion. These heterogeneous ML models hold promise for enhancing the discovery of individualized brain-behavior associations and advancing precision psychiatry.

Indexed as

Brain-behavior mappingHeterogeneityMachine LearningNeuroimaging

Identifiers

PMID39526023
PMCPMC11546160

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