Temporal and spectral characteristics of dynamic functional connectivity between resting-state networks reveal information beyond static connectivity.
Estimation of functional connectivity (FC) has become an increasingly powerful tool for investigating healthy and abnormal brain function. Static connectivity, in particular, has played a large part in guiding conclusions from the majority of resting-state functional MRI studies. However, accumulati...
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| author | Sharon Chiang Emilian R Vankov Hsiang J Yeh Michele Guindani Marina Vannucci Zulfi Haneef John M Stern |
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| description | Estimation of functional connectivity (FC) has become an increasingly powerful tool for investigating healthy and abnormal brain function. Static connectivity, in particular, has played a large part in guiding conclusions from the majority of resting-state functional MRI studies. However, accumulating evidence points to the presence of temporal fluctuations in FC, leading to increasing interest in estimating FC as a dynamic quantity. One central issue that has arisen in this new view of connectivity is the dramatic increase in complexity caused by dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) estimation. To computationally handle this increased complexity, a limited set of dFC properties, primarily the mean and variance, have generally been considered. Additionally, it remains unclear how to integrate the increased information from dFC into pattern recognition techniques for subject-level prediction. In this study, we propose an approach to address these two issues based on a large number of previously unexplored temporal and spectral features of dynamic functional connectivity. A Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model is used to estimate time-varying patterns of functional connectivity between resting-state networks. Time-frequency analysis is then performed on dFC estimates, and a large number of previously unexplored temporal and spectral features drawn from signal processing literature are extracted for dFC estimates. We apply the investigated features to two neurologic populations of interest, healthy controls and patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, and show that the proposed approach leads to substantial increases in predictive performance compared to both traditional estimates of static connectivity as well as current approaches to dFC. Variable importance is assessed and shows that there are several quantities that can be extracted from dFC signal which are more informative than the traditional mean or variance of dFC. This work illuminates many previously unexplored facets of the dynamic properties of functional connectivity between resting-state networks, and provides a platform for dynamic functional connectivity analysis that facilitates its usage as an investigative measure for healthy as well as abnormal brain function. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fa6bc130048c4fcca19a1d3537e31ffa2022-12-22T01:12:58ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032018-01-01131e019022010.1371/journal.pone.0190220Temporal and spectral characteristics of dynamic functional connectivity between resting-state networks reveal information beyond static connectivity.Sharon ChiangEmilian R VankovHsiang J YehMichele GuindaniMarina VannucciZulfi HaneefJohn M SternEstimation of functional connectivity (FC) has become an increasingly powerful tool for investigating healthy and abnormal brain function. Static connectivity, in particular, has played a large part in guiding conclusions from the majority of resting-state functional MRI studies. However, accumulating evidence points to the presence of temporal fluctuations in FC, leading to increasing interest in estimating FC as a dynamic quantity. One central issue that has arisen in this new view of connectivity is the dramatic increase in complexity caused by dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) estimation. To computationally handle this increased complexity, a limited set of dFC properties, primarily the mean and variance, have generally been considered. Additionally, it remains unclear how to integrate the increased information from dFC into pattern recognition techniques for subject-level prediction. In this study, we propose an approach to address these two issues based on a large number of previously unexplored temporal and spectral features of dynamic functional connectivity. A Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model is used to estimate time-varying patterns of functional connectivity between resting-state networks. Time-frequency analysis is then performed on dFC estimates, and a large number of previously unexplored temporal and spectral features drawn from signal processing literature are extracted for dFC estimates. We apply the investigated features to two neurologic populations of interest, healthy controls and patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, and show that the proposed approach leads to substantial increases in predictive performance compared to both traditional estimates of static connectivity as well as current approaches to dFC. Variable importance is assessed and shows that there are several quantities that can be extracted from dFC signal which are more informative than the traditional mean or variance of dFC. This work illuminates many previously unexplored facets of the dynamic properties of functional connectivity between resting-state networks, and provides a platform for dynamic functional connectivity analysis that facilitates its usage as an investigative measure for healthy as well as abnormal brain function.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5761874?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Sharon Chiang Emilian R Vankov Hsiang J Yeh Michele Guindani Marina Vannucci Zulfi Haneef John M Stern Temporal and spectral characteristics of dynamic functional connectivity between resting-state networks reveal information beyond static connectivity. PLoS ONE |
| title | Temporal and spectral characteristics of dynamic functional connectivity between resting-state networks reveal information beyond static connectivity. |
| title_full | Temporal and spectral characteristics of dynamic functional connectivity between resting-state networks reveal information beyond static connectivity. |
| title_fullStr | Temporal and spectral characteristics of dynamic functional connectivity between resting-state networks reveal information beyond static connectivity. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Temporal and spectral characteristics of dynamic functional connectivity between resting-state networks reveal information beyond static connectivity. |
| title_short | Temporal and spectral characteristics of dynamic functional connectivity between resting-state networks reveal information beyond static connectivity. |
| title_sort | temporal and spectral characteristics of dynamic functional connectivity between resting state networks reveal information beyond static connectivity |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5761874?pdf=render |
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