CF-Net: A Hybrid CNN-Random Forest Network for Depression Classification in Brain MRI
摘要
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a prevalent mental illness that requires accurate early diagnosis for effective management. Functional MRI (fMRI) studies have identified altered brain connectivity in regions associated with emotion regulation and mood processing in MDD. We propose an innovative hybrid model for MDD classification from MRI data, combining deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Random Forest. By integrating features from state-of-the-art CNNs VGG16 and EfficientNet, our approach captures complementary discriminative information. A Random Forest classifier then merges these CNN ensemble features, leveraging its capacity to handle high-dimensional and nonlinear data. Evaluated across five MRI datasets, our model outperforms traditional machine learning and single CNN architectures, demonstrating superior accuracy, recall, precision, and F1 scores for Depression classification.