Functional Connectivity of FMRI Using Differential Covariance Predicts Structural Connectivity and Behavioral Reaction Times

Overview

Journal Netw Neurosci

Publisher MIT Press

Specialty Neurology

Date 2022 Jun 23

PMID 35733425

Authors

Yusi Chen

Qasim Bukhari

Tiger W Lin

Terrence J Sejnowski

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Abstract

Recordings from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) reflect the influence of pathways between brain areas. A wide range of methods have been proposed to measure this functional connectivity (FC), but the lack of "ground truth" has made it difficult to systematically validate them. Most measures of FC produce connectivity estimates that are symmetrical between brain areas. Differential covariance (dCov) is an algorithm for analyzing FC with directed graph edges. When we applied dCov to rs-fMRI recordings from the human connectome project (HCP) and anesthetized mice, dCov-FC accurately identified strong cortical connections from diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) in individual humans and viral tract tracing in mice. In addition, those HCP subjects whose dCov-FCs were more integrated, as assessed by a graph-theoretic measure, tended to have shorter reaction times in several behavioral tests. Thus, dCov-FC was able to identify anatomically verified connectivity that yielded measures of brain integration significantly correlated with behavior.

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