Discriminating schizophrenia from normal controls using resting state functional network connectivity: A deep neural network and layer-wise relevance propagation method

Deep learning has gained considerable attention in the scientific community, breaking benchmark records in many fields such as speech and visual recognition [1]. Motivated by extending advancement of deep learning approaches to brain imaging classification, we propose a framework, called “deep neural network (DNN)+ layer-wise relevance propagation (LRP)”, to distinguish schizophrenia patients (SZ) from healthy controls (HCs) using functional...