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Implications of Inconsistencies between fMRI and dMRI on Multimodal Connectivity Estimation
International audienceThere is a recent trend towards integrating resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (RS-fMRI) and diffusion MRI (dMRI) for brain connectivity estimation, as motivated by how estimates from these modalities are presumably two views reflecting the same underlying brain circuitry. In this paper, we show on a cohort of 60 subjects that conventional functional connectivity (FC) estimates based on Pearson's correlation and anatomical connectivity (AC) estimates based on fiber counts are actually not that highly correlated for typical RS-fMRI (~7 min) and dMRI (~32 gradient directions) data. The FC-AC correlation can be significantly increased by considering sparse partial correlation and modeling fiber endpoint uncertainty, but the resulting FC-AC correlation is still rather low in absolute terms. We further exemplify the inconsistencies between FC and AC estimates by integrating them as priors into activation detection and demonstrating significant differences in their detection sensitivity. Importantly, we illustrate that these inconsistencies can be useful in fMRI-dMRI integration for improving brain connectivity estimation
Lagged and instantaneous dynamical influences related to brain structural connectivity
Contemporary neuroimaging methods can shed light on the basis of human neural
and cognitive specializations, with important implications for neuroscience and
medicine. Different MRI acquisitions provide different brain networks at the
macroscale; whilst diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI) provides a structural
connectivity (SC) coincident with the bundles of parallel fibers between brain
areas, functional MRI (fMRI) accounts for the variations in the
blood-oxygenation-level-dependent T2* signal, providing functional connectivity
(FC).Understanding the precise relation between FC and SC, that is, between
brain dynamics and structure, is still a challenge for neuroscience. To
investigate this problem, we acquired data at rest and built the corresponding
SC (with matrix elements corresponding to the fiber number between brain areas)
to be compared with FC connectivity matrices obtained by 3 different methods:
directed dependencies by an exploratory version of structural equation modeling
(eSEM), linear correlations (C) and partial correlations (PC). We also
considered the possibility of using lagged correlations in time series; so, we
compared a lagged version of eSEM and Granger causality (GC). Our results were
two-fold: firstly, eSEM performance in correlating with SC was comparable to
those obtained from C and PC, but eSEM (not C nor PC) provides information
about directionality of the functional interactions. Second, interactions on a
time scale much smaller than the sampling time, captured by instantaneous
connectivity methods, are much more related to SC than slow directed influences
captured by the lagged analysis. Indeed the performance in correlating with SC
was much worse for GC and for the lagged version of eSEM. We expect these
results to supply further insights to the interplay between SC and functional
patterns, an important issue in the study of brain physiology and function.Comment: Accepted and published in Frontiers in Psychology in its current
form. 27 pages, 1 table, 5 figures, 2 suppl. figure
A Theoretical Investigation of the Relationship between Structural Equation Modeling and Partial Correlation in Functional MRI Effective Connectivity
An important field of blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is the investigation of effective connectivity, that is, the actions that a given set of regions exert on one another. We recently proposed a data-driven method based on the partial correlation matrix that could provide some insight regarding the pattern of functional interaction between brain regions as represented by structural equation modeling (SEM). So far, the efficiency of this approach was mostly based on empirical
evidence. In this paper, we provide theoretical fundaments explaining why and in what measure structural equation modeling and partial correlations are related. This gives better insight regarding what parts of SEM can be retrieved by partial correlation analysis and what remains inaccessible. We illustrate the different results with real data
The effect of self-regulated learning and learning interest on mathematics learning outcomes
Learning outcomes are one of the important aspects in the learning process because it is used as a determining factor for the success of a learning process. The factors that influence student learning outcomes are divided into two, namely internal factors (learning interests, talents, motivation, self-regulation, etc.) and external factors (school environment, family environment, etc.). Self-regulation and learning interest were the focus of discussion in this research. This study aims to determine the positive and significant influence between independence and interest in learning on mathematics learning outcomes for class VIII students of SMP Negeri 24 Muaro Jambi. This type of research is associative quantitative research. The results showed that partially independence had a positive but not significant effect on mathematics learning outcomes with tcount = 1,323 and correlation coefficient 0,202, while interest in learning had a positive and significant effect mathematics learning outcomes with tcount = 4,193 and correlation coefficient 0,548. Simultaneously, independence and interest in learning have a positive and significant effect on mathematics learning outcomes for class VIII students of SMP Negeri 24 Muaro Jambi as shown by the Fcount = 41,196, with an effect of 66,8% and 33,2% influenced by other variables
A Comparison of Static and Dynamic Functional Connectivities for Identifying Subjects and Biological Sex using Intrinsic Individual Brain Connectivity
Functional magnetic resonance imaging has revealed correlated activities in brain regions even in the absence of a task. Initial studies assumed this resting-state functional connectivity (FC) to be stationary in nature, but recent studies have modeled these activities as a dynamic network. Dynamic spatiotemporal models better model the brain activities, but are computationally more involved. A comparison of static and dynamic FCs was made to quantitatively study their efficacies in identifying intrinsic individual connectivity patterns using data from the Human Connectome project. Results show that the intrinsic individual brain connectivity pattern can be used as a âfingerprintâ to distinguish among and identify subjects and is more accurately captured with partial correlation and assuming static FC. It was also seen that the intrinsic individual brain connectivity patterns were invariant over a few months. Additionally, biological sex identification was successfully performed using the intrinsic individual connectivity patterns, and group averages of male and female FC matrices. Edge consistency, edge variability and differential power measures were used to identify the major resting-state networks involved in identifying subjects and their sex
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Intrinsic Architecture Underlying the Relations among the Default, Dorsal Attention, and Frontoparietal Control Networks of the Human Brain
Human cognition is increasingly characterized as an emergent property of interactions among distributed, functionally specialized brain networks. We recently demonstrated that the antagonistic âdefaultâ and âdorsal attentionâ networksâsubserving internally and externally directed cognition, respectivelyâare modulated by a third âfrontoparietal controlâ network that flexibly couples with either network depending on task domain. However, little is known about the intrinsic functional architecture underlying this relationship. We used graph theory to analyze network properties of intrinsic functional connectivity within and between these three large-scale networks. Task-based activation from three independent studies were used to identify reliable brain regions (ânodesâ) of each network. We then examined pairwise connections (âedgesâ) between nodes, as defined by resting-state functional connectivity MRI. Importantly, we used a novel bootstrap resampling procedure to determine the reliability of graph edges. Furthermore, we examined both full and partial correlations. As predicted, there was a higher degree of integration within each network than between networks. Critically, whereas the default and dorsal attention networks shared little positive connectivity with one another, the frontoparietal control network showed a high degree of between-network interconnectivity with each of these networks. Furthermore, we identified nodes within the frontoparietal control network of three different typesâdefault-aligned, dorsal attention-aligned, and dual-alignedâthat we propose play dissociable roles in mediating internetwork communication. The results provide evidence consistent with the idea that the frontoparietal control network plays a pivotal gate-keeping role in goal-directed cognition, mediating the dynamic balance between default and dorsal attention networks.Psycholog
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