Liu, Chenglong https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5272-3905
Song, Yu https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8949-8616
Zhao, Xufeng
Wang, Zhili
Yan, Liping
Yu, Yongqiang https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8977-2215
Zhu, Jiajia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7343-6241
Article History
Received: 11 December 2025
Revised: 18 February 2026
Accepted: 16 March 2026
First Online: 30 March 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The original studies providing the HCP, AMUD, and MDD datasets received ethical approval from the relevant Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) or ethics committees. Specifically, the HCP study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA, and written informed consent was obtained from each participant. All participants in the AMUD and MDD datasets provided informed consent under protocols approved by The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University. The datasets utilized in this study were anonymized to ensure participant confidentiality, containing no protected health information or personally identifiable images. All procedures involving human participants were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations, in compliance with the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable standards.