Multiscale Comparative Connectomics

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Hauptverfasser: Gopalakrishnan, Vivek, Chung, Jaewon, Bridgeford, Eric, Pedigo, Benjamin D., Arroyo, Jesús, Upchurch, Lucy, Johnson, G. Allan, Wang, Nian, Park, Youngser, Priebe, Carey E., Vogelstein, Joshua T.
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author Gopalakrishnan, Vivek
Chung, Jaewon
Bridgeford, Eric
Pedigo, Benjamin D.
Arroyo, Jesús
Upchurch, Lucy
Johnson, G. Allan
Wang, Nian
Park, Youngser
Priebe, Carey E.
Vogelstein, Joshua T.
author_facet Gopalakrishnan, Vivek
Chung, Jaewon
Bridgeford, Eric
Pedigo, Benjamin D.
Arroyo, Jesús
Upchurch, Lucy
Johnson, G. Allan
Wang, Nian
Park, Youngser
Priebe, Carey E.
Vogelstein, Joshua T.
contents The connectome, a map of the structural and/or functional connections in the brain, provides a complex representation of the neurobiological phenotypes on which it supervenes. This information-rich data modality has the potential to transform our understanding of the relationship between patterns in brain connectivity and neurological processes, disorders, and diseases. However, existing computational techniques used to analyze connectomes are oftentimes insufficient for interrogating multi-subject connectomics datasets: many current methods are either solely designed to analyze single connectomes or leverage heuristic graph statistics that are unable to capture the complete topology of multiscale connections between brain regions. To enable more rigorous connectomics analysis, we introduce a set of robust and interpretable effect size measures motivated by recent theoretical advances in random graph models. These measures facilitate simultaneous analysis of multiple connectomes across different scales of network topology, enabling the robust and reproducible discovery of hierarchical brain structures that vary in relation to phenotypic profiles. In addition to explaining the theoretical foundations and guarantees of our algorithms, we demonstrate their superiority over current state-of-the-art connectomics methods through extensive simulation studies and real-data experiments. Using a set of high-resolution connectomes obtained from genetically distinct mouse strains (including the BTBR mouse -- a standard model of autism -- and three behavioral wild-types), we illustrate how our methods successfully uncover latent information in multi-subject connectomics data and yield valuable insights into the connective correlates of neurological phenotypes that other methods do not capture. The data and code necessary to reproduce our analyses are available at https://github.com/neurodata/MCC.
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spellingShingle Multiscale Comparative Connectomics
Gopalakrishnan, Vivek
Chung, Jaewon
Bridgeford, Eric
Pedigo, Benjamin D.
Arroyo, Jesús
Upchurch, Lucy
Johnson, G. Allan
Wang, Nian
Park, Youngser
Priebe, Carey E.
Vogelstein, Joshua T.
Neurons and Cognition
Methodology
The connectome, a map of the structural and/or functional connections in the brain, provides a complex representation of the neurobiological phenotypes on which it supervenes. This information-rich data modality has the potential to transform our understanding of the relationship between patterns in brain connectivity and neurological processes, disorders, and diseases. However, existing computational techniques used to analyze connectomes are oftentimes insufficient for interrogating multi-subject connectomics datasets: many current methods are either solely designed to analyze single connectomes or leverage heuristic graph statistics that are unable to capture the complete topology of multiscale connections between brain regions. To enable more rigorous connectomics analysis, we introduce a set of robust and interpretable effect size measures motivated by recent theoretical advances in random graph models. These measures facilitate simultaneous analysis of multiple connectomes across different scales of network topology, enabling the robust and reproducible discovery of hierarchical brain structures that vary in relation to phenotypic profiles. In addition to explaining the theoretical foundations and guarantees of our algorithms, we demonstrate their superiority over current state-of-the-art connectomics methods through extensive simulation studies and real-data experiments. Using a set of high-resolution connectomes obtained from genetically distinct mouse strains (including the BTBR mouse -- a standard model of autism -- and three behavioral wild-types), we illustrate how our methods successfully uncover latent information in multi-subject connectomics data and yield valuable insights into the connective correlates of neurological phenotypes that other methods do not capture. The data and code necessary to reproduce our analyses are available at https://github.com/neurodata/MCC.
title Multiscale Comparative Connectomics
topic Neurons and Cognition
Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14990