RRC ID 76006
Author Maekawa T, Higashide D, Hara T, Matsumura K, Ide K, Miyatake T, Kimura KD, Takahashi S.
Title Cross-species behavior analysis with attention-based domain-adversarial deep neural networks.
Journal Nat Commun
Abstract Since the variables inherent to various diseases cannot be controlled directly in humans, behavioral dysfunctions have been examined in model organisms, leading to better understanding their underlying mechanisms. However, because the spatial and temporal scales of animal locomotion vary widely among species, conventional statistical analyses cannot be used to discover knowledge from the locomotion data. We propose a procedure to automatically discover locomotion features shared among animal species by means of domain-adversarial deep neural networks. Our neural network is equipped with a function which explains the meaning of segments of locomotion where the cross-species features are hidden by incorporating an attention mechanism into the neural network, regarded as a black box. It enables us to formulate a human-interpretable rule about the cross-species locomotion feature and validate it using statistical tests. We demonstrate the versatility of this procedure by identifying locomotion features shared across different species with dopamine deficiency, namely humans, mice, and worms, despite their evolutionary differences.
Volume 12(1)
Pages 5519
Published 2021-9-17
DOI 10.1038/s41467-021-25636-x
PII 10.1038/s41467-021-25636-x
PMID 34535659
PMC PMC8448872
MeSH Animals Attention* / physiology Behavior, Animal* Caenorhabditis elegans / physiology Coleoptera / physiology Dopamine / metabolism Dopaminergic Neurons / metabolism Dopaminergic Neurons / pathology Humans Mice Mice, Inbred C57BL Neural Networks, Computer* Parkinson Disease / pathology Species Specificity
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