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Zhang L, Wu Z, Yu X, Lyu Y, Wu Z, Dai H, Zhao L, Wang L, Li G, Wang X, Liu T, Zhu D. Learning lifespan brain anatomical correspondence via cortical developmental continuity transfer. Med Image Anal 2024; 99:103328. [PMID: 39243599 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2024.103328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2023] [Revised: 07/04/2024] [Accepted: 08/26/2024] [Indexed: 09/09/2024]
Abstract
Identifying anatomical correspondences in the human brain throughout the lifespan is an essential prerequisite for studying brain development and aging. But given the tremendous individual variability in cortical folding patterns, the heterogeneity of different neurodevelopmental stages, and the scarce of neuroimaging data, it is difficult to infer reliable lifespan anatomical correspondence at finer scales. To solve this problem, in this work, we take the advantage of the developmental continuity of the cerebral cortex and propose a novel transfer learning strategy: the model is trained from scratch using the age group with the largest sample size, and then is transferred and adapted to the other groups following the cortical developmental trajectory. A novel loss function is designed to ensure that during the transfer process the common patterns will be extracted and preserved, while the group-specific new patterns will be captured. The proposed framework was evaluated using multiple datasets covering four lifespan age groups with 1,000+ brains (from 34 gestational weeks to young adult). Our experimental results show that: 1) the proposed transfer strategy can dramatically improve the model performance on populations (e.g., early neurodevelopment) with very limited number of training samples; and 2) with the transfer learning we are able to robustly infer the complicated many-to-many anatomical correspondences among different brains at different neurodevelopmental stages. (Code will be released soon: https://github.com/qidianzl/CDC-transfer).
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- Lu Zhang
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 76019, USA
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- Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 76019, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 76019, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- College of Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 76019, USA.
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Costa T, Ferraro M, Manuello J, Camasio A, Nani A, Mancuso L, Cauda F, Fox PT, Liloia D. Activation Likelihood Estimation Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis: a Powerful Tool for Emotion Research. Psychol Res Behav Manag 2024; 17:2331-2345. [PMID: 38882233 PMCID: PMC11179639 DOI: 10.2147/prbm.s453035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2024] [Accepted: 05/31/2024] [Indexed: 06/18/2024] Open
Abstract
Over the past two decades, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become the primary tool for exploring neural correlates of emotion. To enhance the reliability of results in understanding the complex nature of emotional experiences, researchers combine findings from multiple fMRI studies using coordinate-based meta-analysis (CBMA). As one of the most widely employed CBMA methods worldwide, activation likelihood estimation (ALE) is of great importance in affective neuroscience and neuropsychology. This comprehensive review provides an introductory guide for implementing the ALE method in emotion research, outlining the experimental steps involved. By presenting a case study about the emotion of disgust, with regard to both its core and social processing, we offer insightful commentary as to how ALE can enable researchers to produce consistent results and, consequently, fruitfully investigate the neural mechanisms underpinning emotions, facilitating further progress in this field.
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- Tommaso Costa
- GCS-fMRI, Koelliker Hospital and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
- FOCUS Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- GCS-fMRI, Koelliker Hospital and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
- FOCUS Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
- Department of Physics, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- GCS-fMRI, Koelliker Hospital and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
- FOCUS Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- FOCUS Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
- Department of Physics, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- FOCUS Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- FOCUS Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- GCS-fMRI, Koelliker Hospital and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
- FOCUS Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
- Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- GCS-fMRI, Koelliker Hospital and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
- FOCUS Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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Chavoshnejad P, Chen L, Yu X, Hou J, Filla N, Zhu D, Liu T, Li G, Razavi MJ, Wang X. An integrated finite element method and machine learning algorithm for brain morphology prediction. Cereb Cortex 2023; 33:9354-9366. [PMID: 37288479 PMCID: PMC10393506 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Revised: 05/18/2023] [Accepted: 05/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/09/2023] Open
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The human brain development experiences a complex evolving cortical folding from a smooth surface to a convoluted ensemble of folds. Computational modeling of brain development has played an essential role in better understanding the process of cortical folding, but still leaves many questions to be answered. A major challenge faced by computational models is how to create massive brain developmental simulations with affordable computational sources to complement neuroimaging data and provide reliable predictions for brain folding. In this study, we leveraged the power of machine learning in data augmentation and prediction to develop a machine-learning-based finite element surrogate model to expedite brain computational simulations, predict brain folding morphology, and explore the underlying folding mechanism. To do so, massive finite element method (FEM) mechanical models were run to simulate brain development using the predefined brain patch growth models with adjustable surface curvature. Then, a GAN-based machine learning model was trained and validated with these produced computational data to predict brain folding morphology given a predefined initial configuration. The results indicate that the machine learning models can predict the complex morphology of folding patterns, including 3-hinge gyral folds. The close agreement between the folding patterns observed in FEM results and those predicted by machine learning models validate the feasibility of the proposed approach, offering a promising avenue to predict the brain development with given fetal brain configurations.
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- Poorya Chavoshnejad
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902, United States
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- Department of Radiology and BRIC, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, United States
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- School of ECAM, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, United States
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- School of ECAM, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, United States
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, United States
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- School of Computing, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, United States
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- Department of Radiology and BRIC, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902, United States
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- School of ECAM, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, United States
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Wang P, Jiang X, Chen H, Zhang S, Li X, Cao Q, Sun L, Liu L, Yang B, Wang Y. Assessing Fine-Granularity Structural and Functional Connectivity in Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Front Hum Neurosci 2020; 14:594830. [PMID: 33281588 PMCID: PMC7691597 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.594830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2020] [Accepted: 10/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was considered to be a disorder with high heterogeneity, as various abnormalities were found across widespread brain regions in recent neuroimaging studies. However, remarkable individual variability of cortical structure and function may have partially contributed to these discrepant findings. In this work, we applied the Dense Individualized and Common Connectivity-Based Cortical Landmarks (DICCCOL) method to identify fine-granularity corresponding functional cortical regions across different subjects based on the shape of a white matter fiber bundle and measured functional connectivities between these cortical regions. Fiber bundle pattern and functional connectivity were compared between ADHD patients and normal controls in two independent samples. Interestingly, four neighboring DICCCOLs located close to the left parietooccipital area consistently exhibited discrepant fiber bundles in both datasets. The left precentral gyrus (DICCCOL 175, BA 6) and the right anterior cingulate gyrus (DICCCOL 321, BA 32) had the highest connection number among 78 pairs of abnormal functional connectivities with good cross-sample consistency. Furthermore, abnormal functional connectivities were significantly correlated with ADHD symptoms. Our studies revealed novel fine-granularity structural and functional alterations in ADHD.
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- Peng Wang
- Peking University Sixth Hospital, Institute of Mental Health, Beijing, China.,National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders and the Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health (Peking University), Beijing, China.,Shenzhen Children's Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Life Sciences and Technology, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.,Cortical Architecture Imaging and Discovery Lab, Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
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- Cortical Architecture Imaging and Discovery Lab, Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
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- School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Peking University Sixth Hospital, Institute of Mental Health, Beijing, China.,National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders and the Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health (Peking University), Beijing, China
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- Peking University Sixth Hospital, Institute of Mental Health, Beijing, China.,National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders and the Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health (Peking University), Beijing, China
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- Peking University Sixth Hospital, Institute of Mental Health, Beijing, China.,National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders and the Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health (Peking University), Beijing, China
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- Peking University Sixth Hospital, Institute of Mental Health, Beijing, China.,National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders and the Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health (Peking University), Beijing, China
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Zhang T, Huang Y, Zhao L, He Z, Jiang X, Guo L, Hu X, Liu T. Identifying Cross-individual Correspondences of 3-hinge Gyri. Med Image Anal 2020; 63:101700. [PMID: 32361590 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2020.101700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2019] [Revised: 04/04/2020] [Accepted: 04/07/2020] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Human brain alignment based on imaging data has long been an intriguing research topic. One of the challenges is the huge inter-individual variabilities, which are pronounced not only in cortical folding patterns, but also in the underlying structural and functional patterns. Also, it is still not fully understood how to link the cross-subject similarity of cortical folding patterns to the correspondences of structural brain wiring diagrams and brain functions. Recently, a specific cortical gyral folding pattern was identified, which is the conjunction of gyri from multiple directions and termed a "gyral hinge". These gyral hinges are characterized by the thickest cortices, the densest long-range fibers, and the most complex functional profiles in contrast to other gyri. In addition to their structural and functional importance, a small portion of 3-hinges found correspondences across subjects and even species by manual labeling. However, it is unclear if such cross-subject correspondences can be found for all 3-hinges, or if the correspondences are interpretable from structural and functional aspects. Given the huge variability of cortical folding patterns, we proposed a novel algorithm which jointly uses structural MRI-derived cortical folding patterns and diffusion-MRI-derived fiber shape features to estimate the correspondences. This algorithm was executed in a group-wise manner, whereby 3-hinges of all subjects were simultaneously aligned. The effectiveness of the algorithm was demonstrated by higher cross-subject 3-hinges' consistency with respect to structural and functional metrics, when compared with other methods. Our findings provide a novel approach to brain alignment and an insight to the linkage between cortical folding patterns and the underlying structural connective diagrams and brain functions.
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- Tuo Zhang
- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China.
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- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China; Cortical Architecture Imaging and Discovery Lab, Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Cortical Architecture Imaging and Discovery Lab, Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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Pace-Schott EF, Amole MC, Aue T, Balconi M, Bylsma LM, Critchley H, Demaree HA, Friedman BH, Gooding AEK, Gosseries O, Jovanovic T, Kirby LA, Kozlowska K, Laureys S, Lowe L, Magee K, Marin MF, Merner AR, Robinson JL, Smith RC, Spangler DP, Van Overveld M, VanElzakker MB. Physiological feelings. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2019; 103:267-304. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2018] [Revised: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 05/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Karrer TM, Bassett DS, Derntl B, Gruber O, Aleman A, Jardri R, Laird AR, Fox PT, Eickhoff SB, Grisel O, Varoquaux G, Thirion B, Bzdok D. Brain-based ranking of cognitive domains to predict schizophrenia. Hum Brain Mapp 2019; 40:4487-4507. [PMID: 31313451 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2019] [Revised: 06/10/2019] [Accepted: 06/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Schizophrenia is a devastating brain disorder that disturbs sensory perception, motor action, and abstract thought. Its clinical phenotype implies dysfunction of various mental domains, which has motivated a series of theories regarding the underlying pathophysiology. Aiming at a predictive benchmark of a catalog of cognitive functions, we developed a data-driven machine-learning strategy and provide a proof of principle in a multisite clinical dataset (n = 324). Existing neuroscientific knowledge on diverse cognitive domains was first condensed into neurotopographical maps. We then examined how the ensuing meta-analytic cognitive priors can distinguish patients and controls using brain morphology and intrinsic functional connectivity. Some affected cognitive domains supported well-studied directions of research on auditory evaluation and social cognition. However, rarely suspected cognitive domains also emerged as disease relevant, including self-oriented processing of bodily sensations in gustation and pain. Such algorithmic charting of the cognitive landscape can be used to make targeted recommendations for future mental health research.
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- Teresa M Karrer
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Translational Brain Medicine, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA), Aachen, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- BCN Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Lille, CNRS UMR 9193, SCALab and CHU Lille, Fontan Hospital, Lille, France
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- Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.,South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas.,State Key Laboratory for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.,Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay/NeuroSpin, Palaiseau, France
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- Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay/NeuroSpin, Palaiseau, France
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany.,Translational Brain Medicine, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA), Aachen, Germany.,Parietal Team, INRIA Saclay/NeuroSpin, Palaiseau, France
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Meyer K, Garzón B, Lövdén M, Hildebrandt A. Are global and specific interindividual differences in cortical thickness associated with facets of cognitive abilities, including face cognition? ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2019; 6:180857. [PMID: 31417686 PMCID: PMC6689650 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2018] [Accepted: 07/10/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Face cognition (FC) is a specific ability that cannot be fully explained by general cognitive functions. Cortical thickness (CT) is a neural correlate of performance and learning. In this registered report, we used data from the Human Connectome Project (HCP) to investigate the relationship between CT in the core brain network of FC and performance on a psychometric task battery, including tasks with facial content. Using structural equation modelling (SEM), we tested the existence of face-specific interindividual differences at behavioural and neural levels. The measurement models include general and face-specific factors of performance and CT. There was no face-specificity in CT in functionally localized areas. In post hoc analyses, we compared the preregistered, small regions of interest (ROIs) to larger, non-individualized ROIs and identified a face-specific CT factor when large ROIs were considered. We show that this was probably due to low reliability of CT in the functional localization (intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC) between 0.72 and 0.85). Furthermore, general cognitive ability, but not face-specific performance, could be predicted by latent factors of CT with a small effect size. In conclusion, for the core brain network of FC, we provide exploratory evidence (in need of cross-validation) that areas of the cortex sharing a functional purpose did also share morphological properties as measured by CT.
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- Kristina Meyer
- Department of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Aging Research Center, NVS Department, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Tomtebodavägen 18A, 17165 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Aging Research Center, NVS Department, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Tomtebodavägen 18A, 17165 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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Bzdok D. Classical Statistics and Statistical Learning in Imaging Neuroscience. Front Neurosci 2017; 11:543. [PMID: 29056896 PMCID: PMC5635056 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 09/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Brain-imaging research has predominantly generated insight by means of classical statistics, including regression-type analyses and null-hypothesis testing using t-test and ANOVA. Throughout recent years, statistical learning methods enjoy increasing popularity especially for applications in rich and complex data, including cross-validated out-of-sample prediction using pattern classification and sparsity-inducing regression. This concept paper discusses the implications of inferential justifications and algorithmic methodologies in common data analysis scenarios in neuroimaging. It is retraced how classical statistics and statistical learning originated from different historical contexts, build on different theoretical foundations, make different assumptions, and evaluate different outcome metrics to permit differently nuanced conclusions. The present considerations should help reduce current confusion between model-driven classical hypothesis testing and data-driven learning algorithms for investigating the brain with imaging techniques.
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- Danilo Bzdok
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.,Translational Brain Medicine, Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance (JARA), Aachen, Germany.,Parietal Team, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Hsu NS, Jaeggi SM, Novick JM. A common neural hub resolves syntactic and non-syntactic conflict through cooperation with task-specific networks. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2017; 166:63-77. [PMID: 28110105 PMCID: PMC5293615 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2016.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2016] [Revised: 11/29/2016] [Accepted: 12/18/2016] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
Abstract
Regions within the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) have simultaneously been implicated in syntactic processing and cognitive control. Accounts attempting to unify LIFG's function hypothesize that, during comprehension, cognitive control resolves conflict between incompatible representations of sentence meaning. Some studies demonstrate co-localized activity within LIFG for syntactic and non-syntactic conflict resolution, suggesting domain-generality, but others show non-overlapping activity, suggesting domain-specific cognitive control and/or regions that respond uniquely to syntax. We propose however that examining exclusive activation sites for certain contrasts creates a false dichotomy: both domain-general and domain-specific neural machinery must coordinate to facilitate conflict resolution across domains. Here, subjects completed four diverse tasks involving conflict -one syntactic, three non-syntactic- while undergoing fMRI. Though LIFG consistently activated within individuals during conflict processing, functional connectivity analyses revealed task-specific coordination with distinct brain networks. Thus, LIFG may function as a conflict-resolution "hub" that cooperates with specialized neural systems according to information content.
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- Nina S Hsu
- Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA; Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland, College Park, USA; Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, College Park, USA; Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
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- School of Education, University of California, Irvine, USA; Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA.
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- Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland, College Park, USA; Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, College Park, USA; Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
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Atomic connectomics signatures for characterization and differentiation of mild cognitive impairment. Brain Imaging Behav 2016; 9:663-77. [PMID: 25355371 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-014-9320-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
In recent years, functional connectomics signatures have been shown to be a very valuable tool in characterizing and differentiating brain disorders from normal controls. However, if the functional connectivity alterations in a brain disease are localized within sub-networks of a connectome, then accurate identification of such disease-specific sub-networks is critical and this capability entails both fine-granularity definition of connectome nodes and effective clustering of connectome nodes into disease-specific and non-disease-specific sub-networks. In this work, we adopted the recently developed DICCCOL (dense individualized and common connectivity-based cortical landmarks) system as a fine-granularity high-resolution connectome construction method to deal with the first issue, and employed an effective variant of non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) method to pinpoint disease-specific sub-networks, which we called atomic connectomics signatures in this work. We have implemented and applied this novel framework to two mild cognitive impairment (MCI) datasets from two different research centers, and our experimental results demonstrated that the derived atomic connectomics signatures can effectively characterize and differentiate MCI patients from their normal controls. In general, our work contributed a novel computational framework for deriving descriptive and distinctive atomic connectomics signatures in brain disorders.
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Behavior, sensitivity, and power of activation likelihood estimation characterized by massive empirical simulation. Neuroimage 2016; 137:70-85. [PMID: 27179606 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.04.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 456] [Impact Index Per Article: 57.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2016] [Revised: 03/14/2016] [Accepted: 04/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Given the increasing number of neuroimaging publications, the automated knowledge extraction on brain-behavior associations by quantitative meta-analyses has become a highly important and rapidly growing field of research. Among several methods to perform coordinate-based neuroimaging meta-analyses, Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) has been widely adopted. In this paper, we addressed two pressing questions related to ALE meta-analysis: i) Which thresholding method is most appropriate to perform statistical inference? ii) Which sample size, i.e., number of experiments, is needed to perform robust meta-analyses? We provided quantitative answers to these questions by simulating more than 120,000 meta-analysis datasets using empirical parameters (i.e., number of subjects, number of reported foci, distribution of activation foci) derived from the BrainMap database. This allowed to characterize the behavior of ALE analyses, to derive first power estimates for neuroimaging meta-analyses, and to thus formulate recommendations for future ALE studies. We could show as a first consequence that cluster-level family-wise error (FWE) correction represents the most appropriate method for statistical inference, while voxel-level FWE correction is valid but more conservative. In contrast, uncorrected inference and false-discovery rate correction should be avoided. As a second consequence, researchers should aim to include at least 20 experiments into an ALE meta-analysis to achieve sufficient power for moderate effects. We would like to note, though, that these calculations and recommendations are specific to ALE and may not be extrapolated to other approaches for (neuroimaging) meta-analysis.
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de Hollander G, Forstmann BU, Brown SD. Different Ways of Linking Behavioral and Neural Data via Computational Cognitive Models. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2015; 1:101-109. [PMID: 29560872 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2015.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2015] [Revised: 11/13/2015] [Accepted: 11/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Cognitive neuroscientists sometimes apply formal models to investigate how the brain implements cognitive processes. These models describe behavioral data in terms of underlying, latent variables linked to hypothesized cognitive processes. A goal of model-based cognitive neuroscience is to link these variables to brain measurements, which can advance progress in both cognitive and neuroscientific research. However, the details and the philosophical approach for this linking problem can vary greatly. We propose a continuum of approaches that differ in the degree of tight, quantitative, and explicit hypothesizing. We describe this continuum using four points along it, which we dub qualitative structural, qualitative predictive, quantitative predictive, and single model linking approaches. We further illustrate by providing examples from three research fields (decision making, reinforcement learning, and symbolic reasoning) for the different linking approaches.
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- Gilles de Hollander
- Amsterdam Brain & Cognition Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Amsterdam Brain & Cognition Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia
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A major goal of cognitive neuroscience is to delineate how brain systems give rise to mental function. Here we review the increasingly large role informatics-driven approaches are playing in such efforts. We begin by reviewing a number of challenges conventional neuroimaging approaches face in trying to delineate brain-cognition mappings--for example, the difficulty in establishing the specificity of postulated associations. Next, we demonstrate how these limitations can potentially be overcome using complementary approaches that emphasize large-scale analysis--including meta-analytic methods that synthesize hundreds or thousands of studies at a time; latent-variable approaches that seek to extract structure from data in a bottom-up manner; and predictive modeling approaches capable of quantitatively inferring mental states from patterns of brain activity. We highlight the underappreciated but critical role for formal cognitive ontologies in helping to clarify, refine, and test theories of brain and cognitive function. Finally, we conclude with a speculative discussion of what future informatics developments may hold for cognitive neuroscience.
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- Russell A Poldrack
- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305;
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- Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712;
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Lv J, Jiang X, Li X, Zhu D, Zhao S, Zhang T, Hu X, Han J, Guo L, Li Z, Coles C, Hu X, Liu T. Assessing effects of prenatal alcohol exposure using group-wise sparse representation of fMRI data. Psychiatry Res 2015; 233. [PMID: 26195294 PMCID: PMC4536108 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2015.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Task-based fMRI activation mapping has been widely used in clinical neuroscience in order to assess different functional activity patterns in conditions such as prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) affected brains and healthy controls. In this paper, we propose a novel, alternative approach of group-wise sparse representation of the fMRI data of multiple groups of subjects (healthy control, exposed non-dysmorphic PAE and exposed dysmorphic PAE) and assess the systematic functional activity differences among these three populations. Specifically, a common time series signal dictionary is learned from the aggregated fMRI signals of all three groups of subjects, and then the weight coefficient matrices (named statistical coefficient map (SCM)) associated with each common dictionary were statistically assessed for each group separately. Through inter-group comparisons based on the correspondence established by the common dictionary, our experimental results have demonstrated that the group-wise sparse coding strategy and the SCM can effectively reveal a collection of brain networks/regions that were affected by different levels of severity of PAE.
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- Jinglei Lv
- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
,Cortical Architecture Imaging and Discovery Lab, Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Cortical Architecture Imaging and Discovery Lab, Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Cortical Architecture Imaging and Discovery Lab, Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Cortical Architecture Imaging and Discovery Lab, Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
,Cortical Architecture Imaging and Discovery Lab, Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
,Cortical Architecture Imaging and Discovery Lab, Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
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- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
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- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
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- Biomedical Imaging Technology Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Biomedical Imaging Technology Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Cortical Architecture Imaging and Discovery Lab, Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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Kirby LAJ, Robinson JL. Affective mapping: An activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis. Brain Cogn 2015; 118:137-148. [PMID: 26074298 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2015.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2015] [Accepted: 04/24/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Functional neuroimaging has the spatial resolution to explain the neural basis of emotions. Activation likelihood estimation (ALE), as opposed to traditional qualitative meta-analysis, quantifies convergence of activation across studies within affective categories. Others have used ALE to investigate a broad range of emotions, but without the convenience of the BrainMap database. We used the BrainMap database and analysis resources to run separate meta-analyses on coordinates reported for anger, anxiety, disgust, fear, happiness, humor, and sadness. Resultant ALE maps were compared to determine areas of convergence between emotions, as well as to identify affect-specific networks. Five out of the seven emotions demonstrated consistent activation within the amygdala, whereas all emotions consistently activated the right inferior frontal gyrus, which has been implicated as an integration hub for affective and cognitive processes. These data provide the framework for models of affect-specific networks, as well as emotional processing hubs, which can be used for future studies of functional or effective connectivity.
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- Lauren A J Kirby
- Department of Psychology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, United States.
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- Department of Psychology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, United States; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, United States; Department of Kinesiology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, United States.
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Bzdok D, Heeger A, Langner R, Laird AR, Fox PT, Palomero-Gallagher N, Vogt BA, Zilles K, Eickhoff SB. Subspecialization in the human posterior medial cortex. Neuroimage 2014; 106:55-71. [PMID: 25462801 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2014] [Revised: 11/02/2014] [Accepted: 11/04/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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The posterior medial cortex (PMC) is particularly poorly understood. Its neural activity changes have been related to highly disparate mental processes. We therefore investigated PMC properties with a data-driven exploratory approach. First, we subdivided the PMC by whole-brain coactivation profiles. Second, functional connectivity of the ensuing PMC regions was compared by task-constrained meta-analytic coactivation mapping (MACM) and task-unconstrained resting-state correlations (RSFC). Third, PMC regions were functionally described by forward/reverse functional inference. A precuneal cluster was mostly connected to the intraparietal sulcus, frontal eye fields, and right temporo-parietal junction; associated with attention and motor tasks. A ventral posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) cluster was mostly connected to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and middle left inferior parietal cortex (IPC); associated with facial appraisal and language tasks. A dorsal PCC cluster was mostly connected to the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, anterior/posterior IPC, posterior midcingulate cortex, and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; associated with delay discounting. A cluster in the retrosplenial cortex was mostly connected to the anterior thalamus and hippocampus. Furthermore, all PMC clusters were congruently coupled with the default mode network according to task-unconstrained but not task-constrained connectivity. We thus identified distinct regions in the PMC and characterized their neural networks and functional implications.
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- Danilo Bzdok
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Cingulum NeuroSciences Institute and Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E. Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Chen M, Han J, Hu X, Jiang X, Guo L, Liu T. Survey of encoding and decoding of visual stimulus via FMRI: an image analysis perspective. Brain Imaging Behav 2014; 8:7-23. [PMID: 23793982 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-013-9238-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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A variety of exciting scientific achievements have been made in the last few decades in brain encoding and decoding via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This trend continues to rise in recent years, as evidenced by the increasing number of published papers in this topic and several published survey papers addressing different aspects of research issues. Essentially, these survey articles were mainly from cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging perspectives, although computational challenges were briefly discussed. To complement existing survey articles, this paper focuses on the survey of the variety of image analysis methodologies, such as neuroimage registration, fMRI signal analysis, ROI (regions of interest) selection, machine learning algorithms, reproducibility analysis, structural and functional connectivity, and natural image analysis, which were employed in previous brain encoding/decoding research works. This paper also provides discussions of potential limitations of those image analysis methodologies and possible future improvements. It is hoped that extensive discussions of image analysis issues could contribute to the advancements of the increasingly important brain encoding/decoding field.
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- Mo Chen
- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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Ou J, Lian Z, Xie L, Li X, Wang P, Hao Y, Zhu D, Jiang R, Wang Y, Chen Y, Zhang J, Liu T. Atomic dynamic functional interaction patterns for characterization of ADHD. Hum Brain Mapp 2014; 35:5262-78. [PMID: 24861961 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2013] [Revised: 03/07/2014] [Accepted: 05/05/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Modeling abnormal temporal dynamics of functional interactions in psychiatric disorders has been of great interest in the neuroimaging field, and thus a variety of methods have been proposed so far. However, the temporal dynamics and disease-related abnormalities of functional interactions within specific data-driven discovered subnetworks have been rarely explored yet. In this work, we propose a novel computational framework composed of an effective Bayesian connectivity change point model for modeling functional brain interactions and their dynamics simultaneously and an effective variant of nonnegative matrix factorization for assessing the functional interaction abnormalities within subnetworks. This framework has been applied on the resting state fmagnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) datasets of 23 children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and 45 normal control (NC) children, and has revealed two atomic functional interaction patterns (AFIPs) discovered for ADHD and another two AFIPs derived for NC. Together, these four AFIPs could be grouped into two pairs, one common pair representing the common AFIPs in ADHD and NC, and the other abnormal pair representing the abnormal AFIPs in ADHD. Interestingly, by comparing the abnormal AFIP pair, two data-driven abnormal functional subnetworks are derived. Strikingly, by evaluating the approximation based on the four AFIPs, all of the ADHD children were successfully differentiated from NCs without any false positive.
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- Jinli Ou
- School of Biomedical Engineering & Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Lv J, Guo L, Zhu D, Zhang T, Hu X, Han J, Liu T. Group-wise FMRI activation detection on DICCCOL landmarks. Neuroinformatics 2014; 12:513-34. [PMID: 24777386 DOI: 10.1007/s12021-014-9226-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Group-wise activation detection in task-based fMRI has been widely used because of its robustness to noises and its capacity to deal with variability of individual brains. However, current group-wise fMRI activation detection methods typically rely on the co-registration of individual brains' fMRI images, which has difficulty in dealing with the remarkable anatomic variation of different brains. As a consequence, the resulted misalignments could significantly degrade the required inter-subject correspondences, thus substantially reducing the sensitivity and specificity of group-wise fMRI activation detection. To deal with these challenges, this paper presents a novel approach to detecting group-wise fMRI activation on our recently developed and validated Dense Individualized and Common Connectivity-based Cortical Landmarks (DICCCOL). The basic idea here is that the first-level general linear model (GLM) analysis is first performed on the fMRI signal of each corresponding DICCCOL landmark in individual brain's own space, and then the estimated effect sizes of the same landmark from a group of subjects are statistically assessed with the mixed-effect model at the group level. Finally, the consistently activated DICCCOL landmarks are determined and declared in a group-wise fashion in response to external block-based stimuli. Our experimental results have demonstrated that the proposed approach can detect meaningful activations.
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- Jinglei Lv
- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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Conceptualizing neuropsychiatric diseases with multimodal data-driven meta-analyses - the case of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia. Cortex 2014; 57:22-37. [PMID: 24763126 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.02.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2013] [Revised: 01/30/2014] [Accepted: 02/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Uniform coordinate systems in neuroimaging research have enabled comprehensive systematic and quantitative meta-analyses. Such approaches are particularly relevant for neuropsychiatric diseases, the understanding of their symptoms, prediction and treatment. Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), a common neurodegenerative syndrome, is characterized by deep alterations in behavior and personality. Investigating this 'nexopathy' elucidates the healthy social and emotional brain. METHODS Here, we combine three multimodal meta-analyses approaches - anatomical and activation likelihood estimates and behavioral domain profiles - to identify neural correlates of bvFTD in 417 patients and 406 control subjects and to extract mental functions associated with this disease by meta-analyzing functional activation studies in the comprehensive probabilistic functional brain atlas of the BrainMap database. RESULTS The analyses identify the frontomedian cortex, basal ganglia, anterior insulae and thalamus as most relevant hubs, with a regional dissociation between atrophy and hypometabolism. Neural networks affected by bvFTD were associated with emotion and reward processing, empathy and executive functions (mainly inhibition), suggesting these functions as core domains affected by the disease and finally leading to its clinical symptoms. In contrast, changes in theory of mind or mentalizing abilities seem to be secondary phenomena of executive dysfunctions. CONCLUSIONS The study creates a novel conceptual framework to understand neuropsychiatric diseases by powerful data-driven meta-analytic approaches that shall be extended to the whole neuropsychiatric spectrum in the future.
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Group-wise FMRI activation detection on corresponding cortical landmarks. MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER-ASSISTED INTERVENTION : MICCAI ... INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER-ASSISTED INTERVENTION 2014. [PMID: 24579198 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40763-5_82] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Group-wise activation detection in task-based fMRI has been widely used because of its robustness to noises and statistical power to deal with variability of individual brains. However, current group-wise fMRI activation detection methods typically rely on the spatial alignment established by coregistration of individual brains' fMRI images into the same template space, which has difficulty in dealing with the remarkable anatomic variation of different brains. As a consequence, the resulted misalignment among multiple brains could substantially degrade the accuracy and specificity of group-wise fMRI activation detection. To address these challenges, this paper presents a novel methodology to detect group-wise fMRI activation based on a publicly released dense map of DTI-derived structural cortical landmarks, which possess intrinsic correspondences across individuals and populations. The basic idea here is that a first-level general linear model (GLM) analysis is performed on fMRI signals of each corresponding cortical landmark in each individual brain's own space, and then the single-subject effect size of the same landmark from a group of subjects are statistically integrated and assessed at the group level using the mixed-effects model. As a result, the consistently activated cortical landmarks are determined and declared group-wisely in response to external block-based stimuli. Our experimental results demonstrated that the proposed approach can map meaningful group-wise activation patterns on the atlas of cortical landmarks without image registration between subjects and spatial smoothing.
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Identification of common and corresponding white matter (WM) regions of interest (ROI) across human brains has attracted growing interest because it not only facilitates comparison among individuals and populations, but also enables the assessment of structural/functional connectivity in populations. However, due to the complexity and variability of the WM structure and a lack of effective white matter streamline descriptors, establishing accurate correspondences of WM ROIs across individuals and populations has been a challenging open problem. In this paper, a novel fiber shape descriptor which can facilitate quantitative measurement of fiber bundle profile including connection complexity and similarity has been proposed. A novel framework was then developed using the descriptor to identify group-wise consistent connection hubs in WM regions a s landmarks. 1 2 group-wiseconsistent WMhave been identified in our experiment. These WM landmarks are found highly reproducible across individuals and accurately predictable on new individual subjects by our fiber shape descriptor. Therefore, these landmarks, as well as proposed fiber shape descriptor has shown great potential to human brain mapping.
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Amft M, Bzdok D, Laird AR, Fox PT, Schilbach L, Eickhoff SB. Definition and characterization of an extended social-affective default network. Brain Struct Funct 2014; 220:1031-49. [PMID: 24399179 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0698-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2013] [Accepted: 12/26/2013] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Recent evidence suggests considerable overlap between the default mode network (DMN) and regions involved in social, affective and introspective processes. We considered these overlapping regions as the social-affective part of the DMN. In this study, we established a robust mapping of the underlying brain network formed by these regions and those strongly connected to them (the extended social-affective default network). We first seeded meta-analytic connectivity modeling and resting-state analyses in the meta-analytically defined DMN regions that showed statistical overlap with regions associated with social and affective processing. Consensus connectivity of each seed was subsequently delineated by a conjunction across both connectivity analyses. We then functionally characterized the ensuing regions and performed several cluster analyses. Among the identified regions, the amygdala/hippocampus formed a cluster associated with emotional processes and memory functions. The ventral striatum, anterior cingulum, subgenual cingulum and ventromedial prefrontal cortex formed a heterogeneous subgroup associated with motivation, reward and cognitive modulation of affect. Posterior cingulum/precuneus and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex were associated with mentalizing, self-reference and autobiographic information. The cluster formed by the temporo-parietal junction and anterior middle temporal sulcus/gyrus was associated with language and social cognition. Taken together, the current work highlights a robustly interconnected network that may be central to introspective, socio-affective, that is, self- and other-related mental processes.
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- Maren Amft
- Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, HHU Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Fox PT, Lancaster JL, Laird AR, Eickhoff SB. Meta-analysis in human neuroimaging: computational modeling of large-scale databases. Annu Rev Neurosci 2014; 37:409-34. [PMID: 25032500 PMCID: PMC4782802 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-062012-170320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Spatial normalization--applying standardized coordinates as anatomical addresses within a reference space--was introduced to human neuroimaging research nearly 30 years ago. Over these three decades, an impressive series of methodological advances have adopted, extended, and popularized this standard. Collectively, this work has generated a methodologically coherent literature of unprecedented rigor, size, and scope. Large-scale online databases have compiled these observations and their associated meta-data, stimulating the development of meta-analytic methods to exploit this expanding corpus. Coordinate-based meta-analytic methods have emerged and evolved in rigor and utility. Early methods computed cross-study consensus, in a manner roughly comparable to traditional (nonimaging) meta-analysis. Recent advances now compute coactivation-based connectivity, connectivity-based functional parcellation, and complex network models powered from data sets representing tens of thousands of subjects. Meta-analyses of human neuroimaging data in large-scale databases now stand at the forefront of computational neurobiology.
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- Peter T. Fox
- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229
- Department of Radiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229
- South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas 78229
- State Key Lab for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229
- Department of Radiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229
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- Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199;
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- Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany;
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Arbib MA, Bonaiuto JJ, Bornkessel-Schlesewsky I, Kemmerer D, MacWhinney B, Nielsen FÅ, Oztop E. Action and language mechanisms in the brain: data, models and neuroinformatics. Neuroinformatics 2014; 12:209-25. [PMID: 24234916 PMCID: PMC4101894 DOI: 10.1007/s12021-013-9210-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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We assess the challenges of studying action and language mechanisms in the brain, both singly and in relation to each other to provide a novel perspective on neuroinformatics, integrating the development of databases for encoding – separately or together – neurocomputational models and empirical data that serve systems and cognitive neuroscience.
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- Michael A. Arbib
- Computer Science and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences and Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Psychology, Computational Linguistics, and Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Zhang D, Guo L, Zhu D, Li K, Li L, Chen H, Zhao Q, Hu X, Liu T. Diffusion tensor imaging reveals evolution of primate brain architectures. Brain Struct Funct 2013; 218:1429-50. [PMID: 23135357 PMCID: PMC3663907 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-012-0468-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2012] [Accepted: 10/19/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Evolution of the brain has been an inherently interesting problem for centuries. Recent studies have indicated that neuroimaging is a powerful technique for studying brain evolution. In particular, a variety of reports have demonstrated that consistent white matter fiber connection patterns derived from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) tractography reveal common brain architecture and are predictive of brain functions. In this paper, based on our recently discovered 358 dense individualized and common connectivity-based cortical landmarks (DICCCOL) defined by consistent fiber connection patterns in DTI datasets of human brains, we derived 65 DICCCOLs that are common in macaque monkey, chimpanzee and human brains and 175 DICCCOLs that exhibit significant discrepancies amongst these three primate species. Qualitative and quantitative evaluations not only demonstrated the consistencies of anatomical locations and structural fiber connection patterns of these 65 common DICCCOLs across three primates, suggesting an evolutionarily preserved common brain architecture but also revealed regional patterns of evolutionarily induced complexity and variability of those 175 discrepant DICCCOLs across the three species.
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- Degang Zhang
- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
- Department of Physics and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
- Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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- Department of Physics and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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Yuan Y, Jiang X, Zhu D, Chen H, Li K, Lv P, Yu X, Li X, Zhang S, Zhang T, Hu X, Han J, Guo L, Liu T. Meta-analysis of functional roles of DICCCOLs. Neuroinformatics 2013; 11:47-63. [PMID: 23055045 DOI: 10.1007/s12021-012-9165-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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DICCCOL (Dense Individualized and Common Connectivity-based Cortical Landmarks) is a recently published system composed of 358 cortical landmarks that possess consistent correspondences across individuals and populations. Meanwhile, each DICCCOL landmark is localized in an individual brain's unique morphological profile, and therefore the DICCCOL system offers a universal and individualized brain reference and localization framework. However, in current 358 diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)-derived DICCCOLs, only 95 of them have been functionally annotated via task-based or resting-state fMRI datasets and the functional roles of other DICCCOLs are unknown yet. This work aims to take the advantage of existing literature fMRI studies (1110 publications) reported and aggregated in the BrainMap database to examine the possible functional roles of 358 DICCCOLs via meta-analysis. Our experimental results demonstrate that a majority of 358 DICCCOLs can be functionally annotated by the BrainMap database, and many DICCCOLs have rich and diverse functional roles in multiple behavior domains. This study provides novel insights into the functional regularity and diversity of 358 DICCCOLs, and offers a starting point for future elucidation of fine-grained functional roles of cortical landmarks.
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- Yixuan Yuan
- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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Li X, Zhu D, Jiang X, Jin C, Zhang X, Guo L, Zhang J, Hu X, Li L, Liu T. Dynamic functional connectomics signatures for characterization and differentiation of PTSD patients. Hum Brain Mapp 2013; 35:1761-78. [PMID: 23671011 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2012] [Revised: 02/06/2013] [Accepted: 02/18/2013] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Functional connectomes (FCs) have been recently shown to be powerful in characterizing brain conditions. However, many previous studies assumed temporal stationarity of FCs, while their temporal dynamics are rarely explored. Here, based on the structural connectomes constructed from diffusion tensor imaging data, FCs are derived from resting-state fMRI (R-fMRI) data and are then temporally divided into quasi-stable segments via a sliding time window approach. After integrating and pooling over a large number of those temporally quasi-stable FC segments from 44 post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients and 51 healthy controls, common FC (CFC) patterns are derived via effective dictionary learning and sparse coding algorithms. It is found that there are 16 CFC patterns that are reproducible across healthy controls, and interestingly, two additional CFC patterns with altered connectivity patterns [termed signature FC (SFC) here] exist dominantly in PTSD subjects. These two SFC patterns alone can successfully differentiate 80% of PTSD subjects from healthy controls with only 2% false positive. Furthermore, the temporal transition dynamics of CFC patterns in PTSD subjects are substantially different from those in healthy controls. These results have been replicated in separate testing datasets, suggesting that dynamic functional connectomics signatures can effectively characterize and differentiate PTSD patients.
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- Xiang Li
- Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
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A survey of the neuroscience resource landscape: perspectives from the neuroscience information framework. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF NEUROBIOLOGY 2013. [PMID: 23195120 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-388408-4.00003-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/05/2024]
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The number of available neuroscience resources (databases, tools, materials, and networks) available via the Web continues to expand, particularly in light of newly implemented data sharing policies required by funding agencies and journals. However, the nature of dense, multifaceted neuroscience data and the design of classic search engine systems make efficient, reliable, and relevant discovery of such resources a significant challenge. This challenge is especially pertinent for online databases, whose dynamic content is largely opaque to contemporary search engines. The Neuroscience Information Framework was initiated to address this problem of finding and utilizing neuroscience-relevant resources. Since its first production release in 2008, NIF has been surveying the resource landscape for the neurosciences, identifying relevant resources and working to make them easily discoverable by the neuroscience community. In this chapter, we provide a survey of the resource landscape for neuroscience: what types of resources are available, how many there are, what they contain, and most importantly, ways in which these resources can be utilized by the research community to advance neuroscience research.
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Li K, Guo L, Zhu D, Hu X, Han J, Liu T. Individual functional ROI optimization via maximization of group-wise consistency of structural and functional profiles. Neuroinformatics 2012; 10:225-42. [PMID: 22281931 PMCID: PMC3927741 DOI: 10.1007/s12021-012-9142-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Studying connectivities among functional brain regions and the functional dynamics on brain networks has drawn increasing interest. A fundamental issue that affects functional connectivity and dynamics studies is how to determine the best possible functional brain regions or ROIs (regions of interest) for a group of individuals, since the connectivity measurements are heavily dependent on ROI locations. Essentially, identification of accurate, reliable and consistent corresponding ROIs is challenging due to the unclear boundaries between brain regions, variability across individuals, and nonlinearity of the ROIs. In response to these challenges, this paper presents a novel methodology to computationally optimize ROIs locations derived from task-based fMRI data for individuals so that the optimized ROIs are more consistent, reproducible and predictable across brains. Our computational strategy is to formulate the individual ROI location optimization as a group variance minimization problem, in which group-wise consistencies in functional/structural connectivity patterns and anatomic profiles are defined as optimization constraints. Our experimental results from multimodal fMRI and DTI data show that the optimized ROIs have significantly improved consistency in structural and functional profiles across individuals. These improved functional ROIs with better consistency could contribute to further study of functional interaction and dynamics in the human brain.
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- Kaiming Li
- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
- Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
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- School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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We present the basic structure of the Cognitive Paradigm Ontology (CogPO) for human behavioral experiments. While the experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience literature may refer to certain behavioral tasks by name (e.g., the Stroop paradigm or the Sternberg paradigm) or by function (a working memory task, a visual attention task), these paradigms can vary tremendously in the stimuli that are presented to the subject, the response expected from the subject, and the instructions given to the subject. Drawing from the taxonomy developed and used by the BrainMap project ( www.brainmap.org ) for almost two decades to describe key components of published functional imaging results, we have developed an ontology capable of representing certain characteristics of the cognitive paradigms used in the fMRI and PET literature. The Cognitive Paradigm Ontology is being developed to be compliant with the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), and to harmonize where possible with larger ontologies such as RadLex, NeuroLex, or the Ontology of Biomedical Investigations (OBI). The key components of CogPO include the representation of experimental conditions focused on the stimuli presented, the instructions given, and the responses requested. The use of alternate and even competitive terminologies can often impede scientific discoveries. Categorization of paradigms according to stimulus, response, and instruction has been shown to allow advanced data retrieval techniques by searching for similarities and contrasts across multiple paradigm levels. The goal of CogPO is to develop, evaluate, and distribute a domain ontology of cognitive paradigms for application and use in the functional neuroimaging community.
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Jennings RG, Van Horn JD. Publication bias in neuroimaging research: implications for meta-analyses. Neuroinformatics 2012; 10:67-80. [PMID: 21643733 DOI: 10.1007/s12021-011-9125-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Neuroimaging and the neurosciences have made notable advances in sharing activation results through detailed databases, making meta-analysis of the published research faster and easier. However, the effect of publication bias in these fields has not been previously addressed or accounted for in the developed meta-analytic methods. In this article, we examine publication bias in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for tasks involving working memory in the frontal lobes (Brodmann Areas 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 37, 45, 46, and 47). Seventy-four studies were selected from the literature and the effect of publication bias was examined using a number of regression-based techniques. Pearson's r correlation coefficient and Cohen's d effect size estimates were computed for the activation in each study and compared to the study sample size using Egger's regression, Macaskill's regression, and the 'Trim and Fill' method. Evidence for publication bias was identified in this body of literature (p < 0.01 for each test), generally, though was neither task- nor sub-region-dependent. While we focused our analysis on this subgroup of brain mapping studies, we believe our findings generalize to the brain imaging literature as a whole and databases seeking to curate their collective results. While neuroimaging databases of summary effects are of enormous value to the community, the potential publication bias should be considered when performing meta-analyses based on database contents.
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- Robin G Jennings
- Department of Biostatistics, University of California Los Angeles, 635 Charles Young Drive South, Suite 225, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
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Bezgin G, Vakorin VA, van Opstal AJ, McIntosh AR, Bakker R. Hundreds of brain maps in one atlas: registering coordinate-independent primate neuro-anatomical data to a standard brain. Neuroimage 2012; 62:67-76. [PMID: 22521477 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.04.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2011] [Revised: 03/24/2012] [Accepted: 04/07/2012] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Non-invasive measuring methods such as EEG/MEG, fMRI and DTI are increasingly utilised to extract quantitative information on functional and anatomical connectivity in the human brain. These methods typically register their data in Euclidean space, so that one can refer to a particular activity pattern by specifying its spatial coordinates. Since each of these methods has limited resolution in either the time or spatial domain, incorporating additional data, such as those obtained from invasive animal studies, would be highly beneficial to link structure and function. Here we describe an approach to spatially register all cortical brain regions from the macaque structural connectivity database CoCoMac, which contains the combined tracing study results from 459 publications (http://cocomac.g-node.org). Brain regions from 9 different brain maps were directly mapped to a standard macaque cortex using the tool Caret (Van Essen and Dierker, 2007). The remaining regions in the CoCoMac database were semantically linked to these 9 maps using previously developed algebraic and machine-learning techniques (Bezgin et al., 2008; Stephan et al., 2000). We analysed neural connectivity using several graph-theoretical measures to capture global properties of the derived network, and found that Markov Centrality provides the most direct link between structure and function. With this registration approach, users can query the CoCoMac database by specifying spatial coordinates. Availability of deformation tools and homology evidence then allow one to directly attribute detailed anatomical animal data to human experimental results.
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- Gleb Bezgin
- Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Zhu D, Li K, Guo L, Jiang X, Zhang T, Zhang D, Chen H, Deng F, Faraco C, Jin C, Wee CY, Yuan Y, Lv P, Yin Y, Hu X, Duan L, Hu X, Han J, Wang L, Shen D, Miller LS, Li L, Liu T. DICCCOL: dense individualized and common connectivity-based cortical landmarks. CEREBRAL CORTEX (NEW YORK, N.Y. : 1991) 2012. [PMID: 22490548 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs072.] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Is there a common structural and functional cortical architecture that can be quantitatively encoded and precisely reproduced across individuals and populations? This question is still largely unanswered due to the vast complexity, variability, and nonlinearity of the cerebral cortex. Here, we hypothesize that the common cortical architecture can be effectively represented by group-wise consistent structural fiber connections and take a novel data-driven approach to explore the cortical architecture. We report a dense and consistent map of 358 cortical landmarks, named Dense Individualized and Common Connectivity-based Cortical Landmarks (DICCCOLs). Each DICCCOL is defined by group-wise consistent white-matter fiber connection patterns derived from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data. Our results have shown that these 358 landmarks are remarkably reproducible over more than one hundred human brains and possess accurate intrinsically established structural and functional cross-subject correspondences validated by large-scale functional magnetic resonance imaging data. In particular, these 358 cortical landmarks can be accurately and efficiently predicted in a new single brain with DTI data. Thus, this set of 358 DICCCOL landmarks comprehensively encodes the common structural and functional cortical architectures, providing opportunities for many applications in brain science including mapping human brain connectomes, as demonstrated in this work.
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- Dajiang Zhu
- Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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Zhu D, Li K, Guo L, Jiang X, Zhang T, Zhang D, Chen H, Deng F, Faraco C, Jin C, Wee CY, Yuan Y, Lv P, Yin Y, Hu X, Duan L, Hu X, Han J, Wang L, Shen D, Miller LS, Li L, Liu T. DICCCOL: dense individualized and common connectivity-based cortical landmarks. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 23:786-800. [PMID: 22490548 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Is there a common structural and functional cortical architecture that can be quantitatively encoded and precisely reproduced across individuals and populations? This question is still largely unanswered due to the vast complexity, variability, and nonlinearity of the cerebral cortex. Here, we hypothesize that the common cortical architecture can be effectively represented by group-wise consistent structural fiber connections and take a novel data-driven approach to explore the cortical architecture. We report a dense and consistent map of 358 cortical landmarks, named Dense Individualized and Common Connectivity-based Cortical Landmarks (DICCCOLs). Each DICCCOL is defined by group-wise consistent white-matter fiber connection patterns derived from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data. Our results have shown that these 358 landmarks are remarkably reproducible over more than one hundred human brains and possess accurate intrinsically established structural and functional cross-subject correspondences validated by large-scale functional magnetic resonance imaging data. In particular, these 358 cortical landmarks can be accurately and efficiently predicted in a new single brain with DTI data. Thus, this set of 358 DICCCOL landmarks comprehensively encodes the common structural and functional cortical architectures, providing opportunities for many applications in brain science including mapping human brain connectomes, as demonstrated in this work.
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- Dajiang Zhu
- Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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Ruge H, Jamadar S, Zimmermann U, Karayanidis F. The many faces of preparatory control in task switching: reviewing a decade of fMRI research. Hum Brain Mapp 2011; 34:12-35. [PMID: 21998090 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2011] [Revised: 06/27/2011] [Accepted: 07/01/2011] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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A large body of behavioural research has used the cued task-switching paradigm to characterize the nature of trial-by-trial preparatory adjustments that enable fluent task implementation when demands on cognitive flexibility are high. This work reviews the growing number of fMRI studies on the same topic, mostly focusing on the central hypothesis that preparatory adjustments should be indicated by enhanced prefrontal and parietal BOLD activation in task switch when compared with task repeat trials under conditions that enable advance task preparation. The evaluation of this straight-forward hypothesis reveals surprisingly heterogeneous results regarding both the precise localization and the very existence of switch-related preparatory activation. Explanations for these inconsistencies are considered on two levels. First, we discuss methodological issues regarding (i) the possible impact of different fMRI-specific experimental design modifications and (ii) statistical uncertainty in the context of massively multivariate imaging data. Second, we discuss explanations related to the multidimensional nature of task preparation itself. Specifically, the precise localization and the size of switch-related preparatory activation might depend on the differential interplay of hierarchical control via abstract task goals and attentional versus action-directed preparatory processes. We argue that different preparatory modes can be adopted relying either on advance goal activation alone or on the advance resolution of competition within action sets or attentional sets. Importantly, while either mode can result in a reduction of behavioral switch cost, only the latter two are supposed to be associated with enhanced switch versus repeat BOLD activation in prepared trial conditions.
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- Hannes Ruge
- Department of Psychology, Neuroimaging Center, Department of Psychology and Institute of General Psychology, Biopsychology, and Methods of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
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Laird AR, Eickhoff SB, Fox PM, Uecker AM, Ray KL, Saenz JJ, McKay DR, Bzdok D, Laird RW, Robinson JL, Turner JA, Turkeltaub PE, Lancaster JL, Fox PT. The BrainMap strategy for standardization, sharing, and meta-analysis of neuroimaging data. BMC Res Notes 2011; 4:349. [PMID: 21906305 PMCID: PMC3180707 DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-4-349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2011] [Accepted: 09/09/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Neuroimaging researchers have developed rigorous community data and metadata standards that encourage meta-analysis as a method for establishing robust and meaningful convergence of knowledge of human brain structure and function. Capitalizing on these standards, the BrainMap project offers databases, software applications, and other associated tools for supporting and promoting quantitative coordinate-based meta-analysis of the structural and functional neuroimaging literature. FINDINGS In this report, we describe recent technical updates to the project and provide an educational description for performing meta-analyses in the BrainMap environment. CONCLUSIONS The BrainMap project will continue to evolve in response to the meta-analytic needs of biomedical researchers in the structural and functional neuroimaging communities. Future work on the BrainMap project regarding software and hardware advances are also discussed.
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- Angela R Laird
- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM - 2), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
- Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM - 2), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Scott & White Memorial Hospital, Neuroscience Institute, Temple, TX, USA
- Texas A&M Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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Quantitative mapping of structural and functional connectivities in the human brain via non-invasive neuroimaging offers an exciting and unique opportunity to understand brain architecture. Because connectivity alterations are widely reported in a variety of brain diseases, assessment of structural and functional connectivities has emerged as a fundamental research area in clinical neuroscience. A fundamental question arises when attempting to map structural and functional connectivities: how to define and localize the best possible Regions of Interests (ROIs) for brain connectivity mapping? Essentially, when mapping brain connectivities, ROIs provide the structural substrates for measuring connectivities within individual brains and for pooling data across populations. Thus, identification of reliable, reproducible and accurate ROIs is critically important for the success of brain connectivity mapping. This paper discusses several major challenges in defining optimal brain ROIs from our perspective and presents a few thoughts on how to deal with those challenges based on recent research work done in our group.
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- Tianming Liu
- Department of Computer Science and Bioimaging Research Center, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
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The lack of consistent and reliable functionally meaningful landmarks in the brain has significantly hampered the advancement of brain imaging studies. In this paper, we use white matter fiber connectivity patterns, obtained from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data, as predictors of brain function, and to discover a dense, reliable and consistent map of brain landmarks within and across individuals. The general principles and our strategies are as follows. 1) Each brain landmark should have consistent structural fiber connectivity pattern across a group of subjects. We will quantitatively measure the similarity of the fiber bundles emanating from the corresponding landmarks via a novel trace-map approach, and then optimize the locations of these landmarks by maximizing the group-wise consistency of the shape patterns of emanating fiber bundles. 2) The landmark map should be dense and distributed all over major functional brain regions. We will initialize a dense and regular grid map of approximately 2000 landmarks that cover the whole brains in different subjects via linear brain image registration. 3) The dense map of brain landmarks should be reproducible and predictable in different datasets of various subject populations. The approaches and results in the above two steps are evaluated and validated via reproducibility studies. The dense map of brain landmarks can be reliably and accurately replicated in a new DTI dataset such that the landmark map can be used as a predictive model. Our experiments show promising results, and a subset of the discovered landmarks are validated via task-based fMRI.
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Measuring structural-functional correspondence: spatial variability of specialised brain regions after macro-anatomical alignment. Neuroimage 2011; 59:1369-81. [PMID: 21875671 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 219] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2011] [Revised: 08/08/2011] [Accepted: 08/13/2011] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The central question of the relationship between structure and function in the human brain is still not well understood. In order to investigate this fundamental relationship we create functional probabilistic maps from a large set of mapping experiments and compare the location of functionally localised regions across subjects using different whole-brain alignment schemes. To avoid the major problems associated with meta-analysis approaches, all subjects are scanned using the same paradigms, the same scanner and the same analysis pipeline. We show that an advanced, curvature driven cortex based alignment (CBA) scheme largely removes macro-anatomical variability across subjects. Remaining variability in the observed spatial location of functional regions, thus, reflects the "true" functional variability, i.e. the quantified variability is a good estimator of the underlying structural-functional correspondence. After localising 13 widely studied functional areas, we found a large variability in the degree to which functional areas respect macro-anatomical boundaries across the cortex. Some areas, such as the frontal eye fields (FEF) are strongly bound to a macro-anatomical location. Fusiform face area (FFA) on the other hand, varies in its location along the length of the fusiform gyrus even though the gyri themselves are well aligned across subjects. Language areas were found to vary greatly across subjects whilst a high degree of overlap was observed in sensory and motor areas. The observed differences in functional variability for different specialised areas suggest that a more complete estimation of the structure-function relationship across the whole cortex requires further empirical studies with an expanded test battery.
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Large-scale automated synthesis of human functional neuroimaging data. Nat Methods 2011; 8:665-70. [PMID: 21706013 PMCID: PMC3146590 DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2180] [Impact Index Per Article: 167.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2011] [Accepted: 05/24/2011] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The explosive growth of the human neuroimaging literature has led to major advances in understanding of human brain function, but has also made aggregation and synthesis of neuroimaging findings increasingly difficult. Here we describe and validate an automated brain mapping framework that uses text mining, meta-analysis and machine learning techniques to generate a large database of mappings between neural and cognitive states. We demonstrate the capacity of our approach to automatically conduct large-scale, high-quality neuroimaging meta-analyses, address long-standing inferential problems in the neuroimaging literature, and support accurate ‘decoding’ of broad cognitive states from brain activity in both entire studies and individual human subjects. Collectively, our results validate a powerful and generative framework for synthesizing human neuroimaging data on an unprecedented scale.
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Laird AR, Fox PM, Eickhoff SB, Turner JA, Ray KL, McKay DR, Glahn DC, Beckmann CF, Smith SM, Fox PT. Behavioral interpretations of intrinsic connectivity networks. J Cogn Neurosci 2011; 23:4022-37. [PMID: 21671731 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 722] [Impact Index Per Article: 55.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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An increasingly large number of neuroimaging studies have investigated functionally connected networks during rest, providing insight into human brain architecture. Assessment of the functional qualities of resting state networks has been limited by the task-independent state, which results in an inability to relate these networks to specific mental functions. However, it was recently demonstrated that similar brain networks can be extracted from resting state data and data extracted from thousands of task-based neuroimaging experiments archived in the BrainMap database. Here, we present a full functional explication of these intrinsic connectivity networks at a standard low order decomposition using a neuroinformatics approach based on the BrainMap behavioral taxonomy as well as a stratified, data-driven ordering of cognitive processes. Our results serve as a resource for functional interpretations of brain networks in resting state studies and future investigations into mental operations and the tasks that drive them.
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- Angela R Laird
- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA.
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Visscher KM, Weissman DH. Would the field of cognitive neuroscience be advanced by sharing functional MRI data? BMC Med 2011; 9:34. [PMID: 21477286 PMCID: PMC3080821 DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-9-34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2010] [Accepted: 04/08/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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During the past two decades, the advent of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has fundamentally changed our understanding of brain-behavior relationships. However, the data from any one study add only incrementally to the big picture. This fact raises important questions about the dominant practice of performing studies in isolation. To what extent are the findings from any single study reproducible? Are researchers who lack the resources to conduct a fMRI study being needlessly excluded? Is pre-existing fMRI data being used effectively to train new students in the field? Here, we will argue that greater sharing and synthesis of raw fMRI data among researchers would make the answers to all of these questions more favorable to scientific discovery than they are today and that such sharing is an important next step for advancing the field of cognitive neuroscience.
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- Kristina M Visscher
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
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Cognitive neuroscience 2.0: building a cumulative science of human brain function. Trends Cogn Sci 2010; 14:489-96. [PMID: 20884276 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2010] [Revised: 08/28/2010] [Accepted: 08/30/2010] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Cognitive neuroscientists increasingly recognize that continued progress in understanding human brain function will require not only the acquisition of new data, but also the synthesis and integration of data across studies and laboratories. Here we review ongoing efforts to develop a more cumulative science of human brain function. We discuss the rationale for an increased focus on formal synthesis of the cognitive neuroscience literature, provide an overview of recently developed tools and platforms designed to facilitate the sharing and integration of neuroimaging data, and conclude with a discussion of several emerging developments that hold even greater promise in advancing the study of human brain function.
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Turner JA, Mejino JLV, Brinkley JF, Detwiler LT, Lee HJ, Martone ME, Rubin DL. Application of neuroanatomical ontologies for neuroimaging data annotation. Front Neuroinform 2010; 4:10. [PMID: 20725521 PMCID: PMC2912099 DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2010.00010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2010] [Accepted: 04/29/2010] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The annotation of functional neuroimaging results for data sharing and re-use is particularly challenging, due to the diversity of terminologies of neuroanatomical structures and cortical parcellation schemes. To address this challenge, we extended the Foundational Model of Anatomy Ontology (FMA) to include cytoarchitectural, Brodmann area labels, and a morphological cortical labeling scheme (e.g., the part of Brodmann area 6 in the left precentral gyrus). This representation was also used to augment the neuroanatomical axis of RadLex, the ontology for clinical imaging. The resulting neuroanatomical ontology contains explicit relationships indicating which brain regions are "part of" which other regions, across cytoarchitectural and morphological labeling schemas. We annotated a large functional neuroimaging dataset with terms from the ontology and applied a reasoning engine to analyze this dataset in conjunction with the ontology, and achieved successful inferences from the most specific level (e.g., how many subjects showed activation in a subpart of the middle frontal gyrus) to more general (how many activations were found in areas connected via a known white matter tract?). In summary, we have produced a neuroanatomical ontology that harmonizes several different terminologies of neuroanatomical structures and cortical parcellation schemes. This neuroanatomical ontology is publicly available as a view of FMA at the Bioportal website. The ontological encoding of anatomic knowledge can be exploited by computer reasoning engines to make inferences about neuroanatomical relationships described in imaging datasets using different terminologies. This approach could ultimately enable knowledge discovery from large, distributed fMRI studies or medical record mining.
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- Structural Informatics Group, Department of Biological Structure, University of WashingtonSeattle, WA, USA
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- Structural Informatics Group, Department of Biological Structure, University of WashingtonSeattle, WA, USA
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- Structural Informatics Group, Department of Biological Structure, University of WashingtonSeattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA, USA
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Eickhoff S, Nickl-Jockschat T, Kurth F. Metaanalysen in der klinischen Hirnforschung. DER NERVENARZT 2010; 81:32-8. [DOI: 10.1007/s00115-009-2826-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Neumann J, Fox PT, Turner R, Lohmann G. Learning partially directed functional networks from meta-analysis imaging data. Neuroimage 2009; 49:1372-84. [PMID: 19815079 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.09.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2008] [Revised: 09/18/2009] [Accepted: 09/24/2009] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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We propose a new exploratory method for the discovery of partially directed functional networks from fMRI meta-analysis data. The method performs structure learning of Bayesian networks in search of directed probabilistic dependencies between brain regions. Learning is based on the co-activation of brain regions observed across several independent imaging experiments. In a series of simulations, we first demonstrate the reliability of the method. We then present the application of our approach in an extensive meta-analysis including several thousand activation coordinates from more than 500 imaging studies. Results show that our method is able to automatically infer Bayesian networks that capture both directed and undirected probabilistic dependencies between a number of brain regions, including regions that are frequently observed in motor-related and cognitive control tasks.
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- Jane Neumann
- Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstrasse 1a, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany.
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Nielsen FÅ. Visualizing data mining results with the brede tools. Front Neuroinform 2009; 3:26. [PMID: 19668704 PMCID: PMC2723048 DOI: 10.3389/neuro.11.026.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2009] [Accepted: 07/10/2009] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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A few neuroinformatics databases now exist that record results from neuroimaging studies in the form of brain coordinates in stereotaxic space. The Brede Toolbox was originally developed to extract, analyze and visualize data from one of them - the BrainMap database. Since then the Brede Toolbox has expanded and now includes its own database with coordinates along with ontologies for brain regions and functions: The Brede Database. With Brede Toolbox and Database combined, we setup automated workflows for extraction of data, mass meta-analytic data mining and visualizations. Most of the Web presence of the Brede Database is established by a single script executing a workflow involving these steps together with a final generation of Web pages with embedded visualizations and links to interactive three-dimensional models in the Virtual Reality Modeling Language. Apart from the Brede tools I briefly review alternate visualization tools and methods for Internet-based visualization and information visualization as well as portals for visualization tools.
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- Finn Årup Nielsen
- Center for Integrated Molecular Brain ImagingCopenhagen, Denmark
- DTU Informatics, Technical University of DenmarkLyngby, Denmark
- Neurobiology Research Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital, RigshospitaletCopenhagen, Denmark
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Correspondence of the brain's functional architecture during activation and rest. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:13040-5. [PMID: 19620724 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905267106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3738] [Impact Index Per Article: 249.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Neural connections, providing the substrate for functional networks, exist whether or not they are functionally active at any given moment. However, it is not known to what extent brain regions are continuously interacting when the brain is "at rest." In this work, we identify the major explicit activation networks by carrying out an image-based activation network analysis of thousands of separate activation maps derived from the BrainMap database of functional imaging studies, involving nearly 30,000 human subjects. Independently, we extract the major covarying networks in the resting brain, as imaged with functional magnetic resonance imaging in 36 subjects at rest. The sets of major brain networks, and their decompositions into subnetworks, show close correspondence between the independent analyses of resting and activation brain dynamics. We conclude that the full repertoire of functional networks utilized by the brain in action is continuously and dynamically "active" even when at "rest."
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