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Brain Functional Network Generation Using Distribution-Regularized Adversarial Graph Autoencoder with Transformer for Dementia Diagnosis

Qiankun Zuo^1,4, Junhua Hu², Yudong Zhang^3,*, Junren Pan⁴, Changhong Jing⁴, Xuhang Chen⁵, Xiaobo Meng⁶, Jin Hong^7,8,*

1 School of Information Engineering, Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan, 430205, China
2 State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, 100038, China
3 School of Computing and Mathematic Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
4 Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China
5 Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau, 999078, China
6 School of Geophysics, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, China
7 Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and 3D Technologies for Cardiovascular Diseases, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of South China Structural Heart Disease, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 519041, China
8 Medical Research Institute, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 519041, China

* Corresponding Authors: Yudong Zhang. Email: ; Jin Hong. Email: