Functional Graph Convolutional Networks: A Unified Multi-task and Multi-modal Learning Framework to Facilitate Health and Social-Care Insights

Functional Graph Convolutional Networks: A Unified Multi-task and Multi-modal Learning Framework to Facilitate Health and Social-Care Insights

Tobia Boschi, Francesca Bonin, Rodrigo Ordonez-Hurtado, Cécile Rousseau, Alessandra Pascale, John Dinsmore

Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
AI for Good. Pages 7188-7196. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/795

This paper introduces a novel Functional Graph Convolutional Network (funGCN) framework that combines Functional Data Analysis and Graph Convolutional Networks to address the complexities of multi-task and multi-modal learning in digital health and longitudinal studies. With the growing importance of health solutions to improve health care and social support, ensure healthy lives, and promote well-being at all ages, funGCN offers a unified approach to handle multivariate longitudinal data for multiple entities and ensures interpretability even with small sample sizes. Key innovations include task-specific embedding components that manage different data types, the ability to perform classification, regression, and forecasting, and the creation of a knowledge graph for insightful data interpretation. The efficacy of funGCN is validated through simulation experiments and a real-data application. funGCN source code is publicly available at https://github.com/IBM/funGCN.
Keywords:
Machine Learning: General
Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: General