Altered Functional Connectivity of the Primary Visual Cortex in Patients With Iridocyclitis and Assessment of Its Predictive Value Using Machine Learning.

Journal: Frontiers in immunology
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Abstract

PURPOSE: To explore the intrinsic functional connectivity (FC) alteration of the primary visual cortex (V1) between individuals with iridocyclitis and healthy controls (HCs) by the resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique, and to investigate whether FC findings be used to differentiate patients with iridocyclitis from HCs.

Authors

  • Yan Tong
    Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
  • Xin Huang
    Department of ophthalmology, Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang Medical College, Nanchang, China.
  • Chen-Xing Qi
    Eye Center, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
  • Yin Shen
    Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P. R. China.