A Riemannian approach to predicting brain function from the structural connectome

Ongoing brain function is largely determined by the underlying wiring of the brain, but the specific rules governing this relationship remain unknown. Emerging literature has suggested that functional interactions between brain regions emerge from the structural connections through mono- as well as...

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Autores: Benkarim, Oualid, Paquola, Casey, Park, Bo-yong, Royer, Jessica, Rodríguez-Cruces, Raúl, Wael, Reinder Vos de, Misic, Bratislav, Piella Fenoy, Gemma, Bernhardt, Boris C.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/56047
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56047
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119299
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Functional connectivity
Structural connectome
Diffusion maps
Manifold optimization
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Sumario:Ongoing brain function is largely determined by the underlying wiring of the brain, but the specific rules governing this relationship remain unknown. Emerging literature has suggested that functional interactions between brain regions emerge from the structural connections through mono- as well as polysynaptic mechanisms. Here, we propose a novel approach based on diffusion maps and Riemannian optimization to emulate this dynamic mechanism in the form of random walks on the structural connectome and predict functional interactions as a weighted combination of these random walks. Our proposed approach was evaluated in two different cohorts of healthy adults (Human Connectome Project, HCP; Microstructure-Informed Connectomics, MICs). Our approach outperformed existing approaches and showed that performance plateaus approximately around the third random walk. At macroscale, we found that the largest number of walks was required in nodes of the default mode and frontoparietal networks, underscoring an increasing relevance of polysynaptic communication mechanisms in transmodal cortical networks compared to primary and unimodal systems.