BPEN: Brain Posterior Evidential Network for trustworthy brain imaging analysis

Kai Ye, Haoteng Tang, Siyuan Dai, Igor Fortel, Paul M. Thompson, Scott Mackin, Alex D. Leow, Heng Huang, Liang Zhan

Abstract: Highlights•Introduced uncertainty estimation in fMRI analysis to improve prediction reliability.•Proposed BPEN, leveraging Normalizing Flows to update Dirichlet evidence for diagnoses.•Experiments on ADNI datasets show BPEN surpasses existing methods.