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脑连接网络的图感知建模

Graph-aware Modeling of Brain Connectivity Networks

Yura Kim, Daniel Kessler, Elizaveta Levina

摘要:

大脑中的功能连接通常由加权网络表示,节点表示大脑中的位置,边表示这些位置之间的连接强度。分析这些数据的一个挑战是,在个体边缘水平上的推断不是特别有生物学意义;解释在所谓的功能区域或节点组及其之间的连接的水平上更有用;这在神经成像文献中通常被称为“图形感知”推断。然而,在功能区域上的池化导致信息的显著损失和较低的准确性。另一个挑战是主体内边权重之间的相关性,这使得基于独立性假设的推断不可靠。我们用线性混合效应模型解决了这两个挑战,该模型考虑了功能区域和边缘依赖性,同时仍然对单个边缘权重进行建模以避免信息丢失。该模型允许在功能区域水平和个体边缘水平上比较两个群体,例如患者和健康对照,从而导致生物学上有意义的解释。我们将此模型拟合到精神分裂症患者和健康对照组的静息状态fMRI数据,获得了与精神分裂症文献一致的可解释结果。

英文摘要:

Functional connections in the brain are frequently represented by weighted networks, with nodes representing locations in the brain, and edges representing the strength of connectivity between these locations. One challenge in analyzing such data is that inference at the individual edge level is not particularly biologically meaningful; interpretation is more useful at the level of so-called functional regions, or groups of nodes and connections between them; this is often called "graph-aware" inference in the neuroimaging literature. However, pooling over functional regions leads to significant loss of information and lower accuracy. Another challenge is correlation among edge weights within a subject, which makes inference based on independence assumptions unreliable. We address both these challenges with a linear mixed effects model, which accounts for functional regions and for edge dependence, while still modeling individual edge weights to avoid loss of information. The model allows for comparing two populations, such as patients and healthy controls, both at the functional regions level and at individual edge level, leading to biologically meaningful interpretations. We fit this model to a resting state fMRI data on schizophrenics and healthy controls, obtaining interpretable results consistent with the schizophrenia literature.

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