Title
Discovering common functional connectomics signatures
Abstract
Based on the structural connectomes constructed from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data, we present a novel framework to discover functional connectomics signatures from resting-state fMRI (R-fMRI) data for the characterization of brain conditions. First, by applying a sliding time window approach, the brain states represented by functional connectomes were automatically divided into temporal quasi-stable segments. These quasi-stable functional connectome segments were then integrated and pooled from populations as input to an effective dictionary learning and sparse coding algorithm, in order to identify common functional connectomes (CFC) and signature patterns, as well as their dynamic transition patterns. The computational framework was validated by benchmark stimulation data, and highly accurate results were obtained. By applying the framework on the datasets of 44 post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients and 51 healthy controls, it was found that there are 16 CFC patterns reproducible across healthy controls/PTSD patients, and two additional CFCs with altered connectivity patterns exist solely in PTSD subjects. These two signature CFCs can successfully differentiate 85% of PTSD patients, suggesting their potential use as biomarkers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ISBI.2013.6556551
ISBI
Keywords
Field
DocType
connectome,biomarker,medical disorders,benchmark stimulation data,image coding,functional connectomic signature pattern identification,biodiffusion,computational framework,learning (artificial intelligence),dynamic transition pattern,sliding time window approach,dti data,post-traumatic stress disorder,dictionary learning algorithm,diffusion tensor imaging,common functional connectome identification,ptsd patient,fmri,temporal quasistable functional connectome segment,functional magnetic resonance imaging,sparse coding algorithm,biomedical mri,cfc identification,resting-state fmri data,dti,brain,brain state,medical image processing,brain condition characterization,dictionaries,learning artificial intelligence,encoding,data models,vectors
Diffusion MRI,Connectomics,Dictionary learning,Pattern recognition,Neural coding,Computer science,Connectome,Image coding,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
null
null
1945-7928
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-6456-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiang Li141.55
Dajiang Zhu232036.72
Xi Jiang331137.88
Changfeng Jin4122.19
Lei Guo51661142.63
Lingjiang Li6122.53
Tianming Liu71033112.95