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ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2018

Local-Global Parcellation of the Human Cerebral Cortex from Intrinsic Functional Connectivity MRI.

Alexander Schaefer, Ru Kong, Evan M Gordon, Timothy O Laumann, Xi-Nian Zuo, Avram J Holmes, Simon B Eickhoff, B T Thomas Yeo

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Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2,256 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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8 authors.

Alexander SchaeferDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ASTAR-NUS Clinical Imaging Research Centre, Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology and Memory Networks Program, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Ru KongDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ASTAR-NUS Clinical Imaging Research Centre, Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology and Memory Networks Program, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Evan M GordonVISN 17 Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans, Waco, TX, USA.
Timothy O LaumannDepartment of Neurology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Xi-Nian ZuoCAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China.
Avram J HolmesYale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Simon B EickhoffInstitute for Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
B T Thomas YeoDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ASTAR-NUS Clinical Imaging Research Centre, Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology and Memory Networks Program, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Funding

Mapping the Human Connectome: Structure, Function, and HeritabilityU54MH091657 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI UGURBIL, KAMIL, VAN ESSEN, DAVID C · 2010 to 2014
$34.7M
Project 4P41EB015896 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ROSEN, BRUCE R · 2012 to 2018
$9.8M
A Storage Area Network for Structural and Functional Image AnalysisS10RR023401 · NCRR · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI FISCHL, BRUCE · 2009 to 2009
$2.0M
SILICON GRAPHICS PRISM EXTREME 128P/1TBS10RR023043 · NCRR · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI SORENSEN, ALMA GREGORY · 2006 to 2006
$1.5M
Dimensional Neurogenetic Markers of Limbic System Integrity & Psychiatric IllnessK01MH099232 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI HOLMES, AVRAM J · 2013 to 2017
$738k
Dynamics in resting and task-based functional connectivityF30MH100872 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI LAUMANN, TIMOTHY OTTO · 2013 to 2016
$145k
NCRR NIH HHS S10 RR023043NCRR NIH HHS S10 RR023401NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB015896NIMH NIH HHS F30 MH100872NIMH NIH HHS K01 MH099232NIMH NIH HHS U54 MH091657
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Abstract

A central goal in systems neuroscience is the parcellation of the cerebral cortex into discrete neurobiological "atoms". Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) offers the possibility of in vivo human cortical parcellation. Almost all previous parcellations relied on 1 of 2 approaches. The local gradient approach detects abrupt transitions in functional connectivity patterns. These transitions potentially reflect cortical areal boundaries defined by histology or visuotopic fMRI. By contrast, the global similarity approach clusters similar functional connectivity patterns regardless of spatial proximity, resulting in parcels with homogeneous (similar) rs-fMRI signals. Here, we propose a gradient-weighted Markov Random Field (gwMRF) model integrating local gradient and global similarity approaches. Using task-fMRI and rs-fMRI across diverse acquisition protocols, we found gwMRF parcellations to be more homogeneous than 4 previously published parcellations. Furthermore, gwMRF parcellations agreed with the boundaries of certain cortical areas defined using histology and visuotopic fMRI. Some parcels captured subareal (somatotopic and visuotopic) features that likely reflect distinct computational units within known cortical areas. These results suggest that gwMRF parcellations reveal neurobiologically meaningful features of brain organization and are potentially useful for future applications requiring dimensionality reduction of voxel-wise fMRI data. Multiresolution parcellations generated from 1489 participants are publicly available (https://github.com/ThomasYeoLab/CBIG/tree/master/stable_projects/brain_parcellation/Schaefer2018_LocalGlobal).

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PMID28981612
PMCPMC6095216

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