Spectro-Image Analysis with Vision Graph Neural Networks and Contrastive Learning for Parkinson’s Disease Detection
Spectro-Image Analysis with Vision Graph Neural Networks and Contrastive Learning for Parkinson’s Disease Detection
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This study presents a novel framework that integrates Vision Graph Neural Networks (ViGs) with supervised contrastive learning for enhanced spectro-temporal image analysis of speech signals in Parkinson’s disease (PD) detection. The approach introduces a frequency band decomposition strategy that transforms raw audio into three complementary spectral representations, capturing distinct PD-specific characteristics across low-frequency (0–2 kHz), mid-frequency (2–6 kHz), and high-frequency (6 kHz+) bands. The framework processes mel multi-band spectro-temporal representations through a ViG architecture that models complex graph-based relationships between spectral and temporal components, trained using a supervised contrastive objective that learns discriminative representations distinguishing PD-affected from healthy speech patterns. Comprehensive experimental validation on multi-institutional datasets from Italy, Colombia, and Spain demonstrates that the proposed ViG-contrastive framework achieves superior classification performance, with the ViG-M-GELU architecture achieving 91.78% test accuracy. The integration of graph neural networks with contrastive learning enables effective learning from limited labeled data while capturing complex spectro-temporal relationships that traditional Convolution Neural Network (CNN) approaches miss, representing a promising direction for developing more accurate and clinically viable speech-based diagnostic tools for PD.