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@ARTICLE{Ke:1052300,
author = {Ke, Hongjie and Adhikari, Bhim M. and Pan, Yezhi and
Keator, David B. and Amen, Daniel and Gao, Si and Ma, Yizhou
and Thompson, Paul M. and Jahanshad, Neda and Turner,
Jessica A. and van Erp, Theo G. M. and Milad, Mohammed R.
and Soares, Jair C. and Calhoun, Vince D. and Dukart,
Juergen and Hong, L. Elliot and Ma, Tianzhou and Kochunov,
Peter},
title = {{P}redicting {R}egional {C}erebral {B}lood {F}low {U}sing
{V}oxel-{W}ise {R}esting-{S}tate {F}unctional {MRI}},
journal = {Brain Sciences},
volume = {15},
number = {9},
issn = {2076-3425},
address = {Basel},
publisher = {MDPI AG},
reportid = {FZJ-2026-00915},
pages = {908 -},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Background: Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) is a
putative biomarker for neuropsychiatric disorders, including
major depressive disorder (MDD). Methods: Here, we show that
rCBF can be predicted from resting-state functional MRI
(rsfMRI) at the voxel level while correcting for partial
volume averaging (PVA) artifacts. Cortical patterns of
MDD-related CBF differences decoded from rsfMRI using a
PVA-corrected approach showed excellent agreement with CBF
measured using single-photon emission computed tomography
(SPECT) and arterial spin labeling (ASL). A support vector
machine algorithm was trained to decode cortical voxel-wise
CBF from temporal and power-spectral features of voxel-level
rsfMRI time series while accounting for PVA. Three datasets,
Amish Connectome Project (N = 300; 179 M/121 F, both rsfMRI
and ASL data), UK Biobank (N = 8396; 3097 M/5319 F, rsfMRI
data), and Amen Clinics Inc. datasets (N = 372: N = 183
M/189 F, SPECT data), were used. Results: PVA-corrected CBF
values predicted from rsfMRI showed significant correlation
with the whole-brain (r = 0.54, p = 2 × 10−5) and 31 out
of 34 regional (r = 0.33 to 0.59, p < 1.1 × 10−3) rCBF
measures from 3D ASL. PVA-corrected rCBF values showed
significant regional deficits in the UKBB MDD group
(Cohen’s d = −0.30 to −0.56, p < 10−28), with the
strongest effect sizes observed in the frontal and cingulate
areas. The regional deficit pattern of MDD-related
hypoperfusion showed excellent agreement with CBF deficits
observed in the SPECT data (r = 0.74, p = 4.9 × 10−7).
Consistent with previous findings, this new method suggests
that perfusion signals can be predicted using voxel-wise
rsfMRI signals. Conclusions: CBF values computed from widely
available rsfMRI can be used to study the impact of
neuropsychiatric disorders such as MDD on cerebral
neurophysiology.Keywords:cerebral blood flow; partial volume
correction; prediction; support vector machine; rsfMRI},
cin = {INM-7},
ddc = {570},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-7-20090406},
pnm = {5251 - Multilevel Brain Organization and Variability
(POF4-525)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5251},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.3390/brainsci15090908},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1052300},
}