Construction of embedded fMRI resting-state functional connectivity networks using manifold learning.

Journal: Cognitive neurodynamics
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Abstract

We construct embedded functional connectivity networks (FCN) from benchmark resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) data acquired from patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls based on linear and nonlinear manifold learning algorithms, namely, Multidimensional Scaling, Isometric Feature Mapping, Diffusion Maps, Locally Linear Embedding and kernel PCA. Furthermore, based on key global graph-theoretic properties of the embedded FCN, we compare their classification potential using machine learning. We also assess the performance of two metrics that are widely used for the construction of FCN from fMRI, namely the Euclidean distance and the cross correlation metric. We show that diffusion maps with the cross correlation metric outperform the other combinations.

Authors

  • Ioannis K Gallos
    School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
  • Evangelos Galaris
    Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni "Renato Caccioppoli", Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy.
  • Constantinos I Siettos
    Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni "Renato Caccioppoli", Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy.

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