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most citedTowards a Foundation Model for Brain Age Prediction using coVariance Neural Networks

2 citations · 4 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

q-bio.QM2026

Brain Age Gap Progression in Individuals at Risk for Neurodegeneration

Jason Scheffel, Saurabh Sihag

Neuroimaging is a widely used modality for characterizing neurodegeneration in various health conditions. Brain age gap has emerged as a promising biomarker for monitoring brain he…

q-bio.QM2026

Covariance Eigenspace Provides Latent Attribution of Longitudinal Effects in Brain Age Gap

Jason Scheffel, Saurabh Sihag

Brain age gap is a promising machine learning (ML)-driven bio\-marker of accelerated biological aging and is derived from neuroimaging data. Recent works on coVariance neural netwo…

cs.LG2026

Learning with Covariance Matrices: Principal Component Analysis Meets Learning with Graphs

Saurabh Sihag, Andrea Cavallo, Elvin Isufi +2

This feature article provides an overview of the theoretical foundations for coVariance neural networks (VNNs), i.e., graph neural networks (GNNs) operating on covariance matrices…

eess.SP2025

Disentangling Neurodegeneration with Brain Age Gap Prediction Models: A Graph Signal Processing Perspective

Saurabh Sihag, Gonzalo Mateos, Alejandro Ribeiro

Neurodegeneration, characterized by the progressive loss of neuronal structure or function, is commonly assessed in clinical practice through reductions in cortical thickness or br…

cs.LG2025

Explainable Brain Age Gap Prediction in Neurodegenerative Conditions using coVariance Neural Networks

Saurabh Sihag, Gonzalo Mateos, Alejandro Ribeiro

Brain age is the estimate of biological age derived from neuroimaging datasets using machine learning algorithms. Increasing \textit{brain age gap} characterized by an elevated bra…

q-bio.QM2024★ 2 cited

Towards a Foundation Model for Brain Age Prediction using coVariance Neural Networks

Saurabh Sihag, Gonzalo Mateos, Alejandro Ribeiro

Brain age is the estimate of biological age derived from neuroimaging datasets using machine learning algorithms. Increasing brain age with respect to chronological age can reflect…

cs.LG2023

Neural Tangent Kernels Motivate Graph Neural Networks with Cross-Covariance Graphs

Shervin Khalafi, Saurabh Sihag, Alejandro Ribeiro

Neural tangent kernels (NTKs) provide a theoretical regime to analyze the learning and generalization behavior of over-parametrized neural networks. For a supervised learning task,…

cs.LG2023

Transferability of coVariance Neural Networks and Application to Interpretable Brain Age Prediction using Anatomical Features

Saurabh Sihag, Gonzalo Mateos, Corey T. McMillan +1

Graph convolutional networks (GCN) leverage topology-driven graph convolutional operations to combine information across the graph for inference tasks. In our recent work, we have…

q-bio.QM2023★ 1 cited

Explainable Brain Age Prediction using coVariance Neural Networks

Saurabh Sihag, Gonzalo Mateos, Corey McMillan +1

In computational neuroscience, there has been an increased interest in developing machine learning algorithms that leverage brain imaging data to provide estimates of "brain age" f…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Predicting Brain Age using Transferable coVariance Neural Networks

Saurabh Sihag, Gonzalo Mateos, Corey McMillan +1

The deviation between chronological age and biological age is a well-recognized biomarker associated with cognitive decline and neurodegeneration. Age-related and pathology-driven…

cs.LG2022

Learning Graph Structure from Convolutional Mixtures

Max Wasserman, Saurabh Sihag, Gonzalo Mateos +1

Machine learning frameworks such as graph neural networks typically rely on a given, fixed graph to exploit relational inductive biases and thus effectively learn from network data…

cs.AI2022

Summary Markov Models for Event Sequences

Debarun Bhattacharjya, Saurabh Sihag, Oktie Hassanzadeh +1

Datasets involving sequences of different types of events without meaningful time stamps are prevalent in many applications, for instance when extracted from textual corpora. We pr…

cs.LG2022

coVariance Neural Networks

Saurabh Sihag, Gonzalo Mateos, Corey McMillan +1

Graph neural networks (GNN) are an effective framework that exploit inter-relationships within graph-structured data for learning. Principal component analysis (PCA) involves the p…

cs.IT2018

Secure Estimation under Causative Attacks

Saurabh Sihag, Ali Tajer

This paper considers the problem of secure parameter estimation when the estimation algorithm is prone to causative attacks. Causative attacks, in principle, target decision-making…

cs.CV2015

Faster method for Deep Belief Network based Object classification using DWT

Saurabh Sihag, Pranab Kumar Dutta

A Deep Belief Network (DBN) requires large, multiple hidden layers with high number of hidden units to learn good features from the raw pixels of large images. This implies more tr…