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@INPROCEEDINGS{Popovych:888565,
author = {Popovych, Oleksandr and Manos, Thanos and Diaz, Sandra and
Hoffstaedter, Felix and Schreiber, Jan and Eickhoff, Simon},
title = {{E}nrichment of data analytics by whole-brain computational
models},
school = {Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-05029},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Introduction: Processing of neuroimaging data and
extraction of the structural andfunctional brain signals
relies on plethora of setting and parameters whose values
arelargely conjectured. This problem is crucial for
simulating the whole-brain dynamics bymathematical models
derived from and validated against empirical data, which has
attracteda great interest during the last decade. For
example, considering a certain brainparcellation is
essential for defining a model network, but there is
practically no empiricalevidence for the effect of a
particular atlas choice. We address this problem using
acomputational modeling approach, where the resting-state
brain dynamics as reflected byfMRI BOLD is simulated by a
dynamical model of coupled oscillators. We compare
themodeling outcome for two brain atlases based on
functional and anatomical parcellations.We also consider
different frequency bands of the empirical BOLD signals used
to extractthe natural frequencies of the model oscillators
as another parameter of data processing.Methods: We
considered 272 healthy subjects of the Human Connectome
Project.The brain was parcellated into regions according to
the functional Schaefer atlas with100 and 200 cortical
parcels (S100 and S200) and anatomical Harvard-Oxford atlas
with 96parcels (HO96). Empirical functional connectivity
(eFC) was calculated from the meanBOLD signals extracted for
each brain region using FSL. Empirical structural
connectivity(eSC) was computed by counting the number of
streamlines and evaluating the averagedpath lengths between
pairs of brain regions from the whole-brain tractography
with 10Mstreamlines obtained by the probabilistic
tractography with using MRtrix. The model ofcoupled phase
oscillators was simulated, where the coupling weights and
delayswere extracted from eSC. The oscillators’ natural
frequencies were calculated by peakdetection in the spectral
power of the non-filtered (NF) BOLD signals as well filtered
in thebroad- (BF, [0.02, 0.07] Hz), low- (LF, [0.02, 0.04]
Hz) and high- (HF, [0.04, 0.07] Hz)frequency bands. The
model was validated by finding the optimal model parameters
of theglobal coupling and delay, where the strongest
Pearson’s correlation betweensimulated functional
connectivity (sFC) and eFC denoted by Fit(sFC,eFC) orbetween
sFC and eSC denoted by Fit(sFC,eSC) is achieved.Results: The
maximal similarity Fit(sFC, eFC) does not demonstrate any
pronounceddifference (relative changes of $1\%-5\%)$ for
varying frequency band for any fixed atlas. An increase of
up to $12\%$ can be observed when comparing S200 to S100,
and astrong enhancement of the model fitting $(70\%$ and
more) is apparent when comparing HO96to S100 and S200. For
the structure-function relationship Fit(sFC, eSC),
theordering NF < BF < LF < HF can be observed, but the
differences between atlases are lessconsistent. We found
that HF condition demonstrates distinct distributions of
theoptimal model parameters than other frequency bands,
especially, for S100 or for Fit(sFC,eSC). Furthermore, the
fitting results Fit(sFC, eFC) and Fit(sFC, eSC) for theHF
case less correlate with those obtained for other frequency
bands across subjects. Finally, the dynamics of the
validated model can result in pronounced
bimodaldistributions of corr(sFC,eSC) and the order
parameter R(t) for S100 and S200, but not for HO96.
Conclusion: We showed that a choice of a particular brain
parcellation and variation ofBOLD frequency band can cause a
significant impact on the quality of the model
fitting,dynamics of the validated model and their
interrelations. The main impact of the brain atlasescan be
observed for the fitting of sFC to eFC. The frequency bands
of the BOLD filteringmostly affect structure-function
relationships and can also influence the reliability of
themodel validation.},
month = {Jun},
date = {2020-06-23},
organization = {The 2020 Annual Meeting Organization
for Human Brain Mapping, Virtual
(Canada), 23 Jun 2020 - 3 Jul 2020},
subtyp = {After Call},
cin = {INM-7},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-7-20090406},
pnm = {574 - Theory, modelling and simulation (POF3-574) /
VirtualBrainCloud - Personalized Recommendations for
Neurodegenerative Disease (826421)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-574 / G:(EU-Grant)826421},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)24},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/888565},
}