Measuring hierarchically-organized interactions in dynamic networks through spectral entropy rates: theory, estimation, and illustrative application to physiological networks

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Auteurs principaux: Sparacino, Laura, Antonacci, Yuri, Mijatovic, Gorana, Faes, Luca
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author Sparacino, Laura
Antonacci, Yuri
Mijatovic, Gorana
Faes, Luca
author_facet Sparacino, Laura
Antonacci, Yuri
Mijatovic, Gorana
Faes, Luca
contents Recent advances in signal processing and information theory are boosting the development of new approaches for the data-driven modelling of complex network systems. In the fields of Network Physiology and Network Neuroscience where the signals of interest are often rich of oscillatory content, the spectral representation of network systems is essential to ascribe the analyzed interactions to specific oscillations with physiological meaning. In this context, the present work formalizes a coherent framework which integrates several information dynamics approaches to quantify node-specific, pairwise and higher-order interactions in network systems. The framework establishes a hierarchical organization of interactions of different order using measures of entropy rate, mutual information rate and O-information rate, to quantify respectively the dynamics of individual nodes, the links between pairs of nodes, and the redundant/synergistic hyperlinks between groups of nodes. All measures are formulated in the time domain, and then expanded to the spectral domain to obtain frequency-specific information. The practical computation of all measures is favored presenting a toolbox that implements their parametric and non-parametric estimation, and includes approaches to assess their statistical significance. The framework is illustrated first using theoretical examples where the properties of the measures are displayed in benchmark simulated network systems, and then applied to representative examples of multivariate time series in the context of Network Neuroscience and Network Physiology.
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spellingShingle Measuring hierarchically-organized interactions in dynamic networks through spectral entropy rates: theory, estimation, and illustrative application to physiological networks
Sparacino, Laura
Antonacci, Yuri
Mijatovic, Gorana
Faes, Luca
Methodology
Recent advances in signal processing and information theory are boosting the development of new approaches for the data-driven modelling of complex network systems. In the fields of Network Physiology and Network Neuroscience where the signals of interest are often rich of oscillatory content, the spectral representation of network systems is essential to ascribe the analyzed interactions to specific oscillations with physiological meaning. In this context, the present work formalizes a coherent framework which integrates several information dynamics approaches to quantify node-specific, pairwise and higher-order interactions in network systems. The framework establishes a hierarchical organization of interactions of different order using measures of entropy rate, mutual information rate and O-information rate, to quantify respectively the dynamics of individual nodes, the links between pairs of nodes, and the redundant/synergistic hyperlinks between groups of nodes. All measures are formulated in the time domain, and then expanded to the spectral domain to obtain frequency-specific information. The practical computation of all measures is favored presenting a toolbox that implements their parametric and non-parametric estimation, and includes approaches to assess their statistical significance. The framework is illustrated first using theoretical examples where the properties of the measures are displayed in benchmark simulated network systems, and then applied to representative examples of multivariate time series in the context of Network Neuroscience and Network Physiology.
title Measuring hierarchically-organized interactions in dynamic networks through spectral entropy rates: theory, estimation, and illustrative application to physiological networks
topic Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11327