Title
Multiple-network classification of childhood autism using functional connectivity dynamics.
Abstract
Characterization of disease using stationary resting-state functional connectivity (FC) has provided important hallmarks of abnormal brain activation in many domains. Recent studies of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), however, suggest there is a considerable amount of additional knowledge to be gained by investigating the variability in FC over the course of a scan. While a few studies have begun to explore the properties of dynamic FC for characterizing disease, the analysis of dynamic FC over multiple networks at multiple time scales has yet to be fully examined. In this study, we combine dynamic connectivity features in a multi-network, multi-scale approach to evaluate the method's potential in better classifying childhood autism. Specifically, from a set of group-level intrinsic connectivity networks (ICNs), we use sliding window correlations to compute intra-network connectivity on the subject level. We derive dynamic FC features for all ICNs over a large range of window sizes and then use a multiple kernel support vector machine (MK-SVM) model to combine a subset of these features for classification. We compare the performance our multi-network, dynamic approach to the best results obtained from single-network dynamic FC features and those obtained from both single-and multi-network static FC features. Our experiments show that integrating multiple networks on different dynamic scales has a clear superiority over these existing methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-10443-0_23
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Field
DocType
Volume
Kernel (linear algebra),Sliding window protocol,Pattern recognition,Functional magnetic resonance imaging,Childhood autism,Computer science,Support vector machine,Brain activation,Artificial intelligence,Independent component analysis,Network classification
Conference
8675
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
Pt 3
0302-9743
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.75
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
True Price1555.07
Chong-Yaw Wee248029.46
Wei Gao3917.05
Dinggang Shen47837611.27