TC2-Res: a structured fusion of tract-level and connectome-level brain imaging in small-sample cohorts of athletes
Yang Shi, Lixian Chen, Mingxuan Huang, Zhiqi Huang, Jiayu Ou, Junwei Zeng · 2026
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Yang Shi and coauthors present in 2026 a structured method for fusing two kinds of brain imaging data in a small group of college athletes. White matter tract measures and whole-brain connection maps each carry part of the picture, but small samples invite overfitting in flexible models. Their framework, TC2-Res, forces matching anatomical families to agree in a shared space.
On a task separating football players from other athletes, the structured method slightly beat a naive learned fusion baseline. A classical linear classifier still performed best overall, and gains linked to the consistency rule were limited. The authors frame the approach as plausible but unproven.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yang Shi, Lixian Chen, Mingxuan Huang, Zhiqi Huang, Jiayu Ou, Junwei Zeng |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |