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@INPROCEEDINGS{Jung:888478,
author = {Jung, Kyesam and Florin, Esther and Eickhoff, Simon and
Popovych, Oleksandr},
title = {{E}ffects of structural connectivity for the whole-brain
resting-state dynamical models},
school = {Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-04942},
year = {2020},
abstract = {[INTRODUCTION]The primary goal of this study is to
investigate the impact of MRI data processing on the
modeling of the resting-state brain dynamics, in particular,
the number of streamlines for the whole-brain tractography
(WBT) that affects structural connectivity (the number of
streamlines between two regions; SC) and path-length (mean
length of streamlines; PL). We consider a system of phase
oscillators (as brain regions) coupled with delay, where SC
is used for coupling between two oscillators and PL is used
as proxy for the delay of the signal propagation. We
systematically explore the parameter space (coupling and
delay) of the considered model and find optimal parameter
configurations, where the model dynamics closely replicates
the empirical data. Finally, we discuss the optimal number
of streamlines and the difference between two distinct brain
parcellations for modeling.[METHODS]T1-weighted images and
diffusion-weighted images from 105 subjects from the Human
Connectome Project (HCP) dataset were preprocessed for the
WBT. The developed pipeline has three parts of
preprocessing, tractography and reconstructing, where FSL,
FreeSurfer, MRtrix, and ANTs were used. After preprocessing,
the WBT was extracted for six different number of
streamlines (10M, 2M, 500K, 100K, 50K, and 10K), and SC and
PL were reconstructed for Schaefer's and Harvard-Oxford
atlases with 100 and 96 cortical areas, respectively, by
MRtrix. Furthermore, BOLD signals were extracted from the
minimally preprocessed fMRI with these two atlases, and
functional connectivity (FC) was calculated as Pearson
cross-correlation. Finally, the whole-brain mathematical
model of coupled phase oscillators, where the coupling
weights, delays and natural frequencies were extracted from
the empirical SC, PL and BOLD, respectively, generated
simulated FC for 12 conditions (6 WBTs and 2
atlases).[RESULTS]Simulated FC was compared to the empirical
FC and SC, and similarity between simulated and empirical
data was calculated by Pearson correlation for varying
parameters of the global coupling and delay. We found that
the shapes of the corresponding model parameter planes were
consistent across all WBTs. However, the distributions of
the maximal similarity between simulated and empirical FCs
and between simulated FC and empirical SC showed differences
through varying WBTs. On the one hand, the case of 10M
streamlines showed the highest similarity for Schaefer's
atlas. On the other hand, WBT of 100K streamlines can be
optimal for fitting simulated and empirical FC for
Harvard-Oxford atlas. The optimal parameters for the
strongest correlation between simulated and empirical FCs
are unimodaly distributed for Harvard-Oxford atlas, whereas
those for Schaefer's atlas can exhibit clustering. In
contrast, the optimal parameter sets for the correlation
between simulated FC and empirical SC showed a similar
two-cluster pattern for both atlases. Figure 2 illustrates
that clusters undergo a reshaping, where the optimal
parameters redistribute between clusters as WBT varies for
the Schaefer's atlas, whereas the clusters for
Harvard-Oxford atlas remain stable for any considered number
of streamlines.[CONCLUSIONS]In this study, we described the
impact of WBT streamlines used for whole-brain models on the
results of model validation. We showed that variation of WBT
has an impact on the maximal similarity between simulated
and empirical data as well as on the distribution of the
optimal model parameters for the considered Schaefer's and
Harvard-Oxford brain atlases. Still there are unclear
structural-functional relationships for modeling, e.g., an
effect of different types of atlases on the modeling
outcome. Further systematic modeling studies on the effect
of data-processing parameters are necessary for designing an
optimal approach for dynamical models and neuroimaging data
analytics.},
month = {Jun},
date = {2020-06-23},
organization = {2020 Organization for Human Brain
Mapping, Virtual (Canada), 23 Jun 2020
- 3 Jul 2020},
subtyp = {Other},
cin = {INM-7},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-7-20090406},
pnm = {574 - Theory, modelling and simulation (POF3-574)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-574},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)24},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/888478},
}