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ArticleNetwork neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)2021

Simplicial and topological descriptions of human brain dynamics.

Jacob Billings, Manish Saggar, Jaroslav Hlinka, Shella Keilholz, Giovanni Petri

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Article in Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Jacob BillingsMathematics and Complex Systems Research Area, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8186-6126
Manish SaggarDepartment of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5307-2249
Jaroslav HlinkaInstitute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Shella KeilholzCoulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5737-1660
Giovanni PetriMathematics and Complex Systems Research Area, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-5031
Georgia Institute of Technology · USInstitute for Scientific Interchange · ITStanford University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While brain imaging tools like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) afford measurements of whole-brain activity, it remains unclear how best to interpret patterns found amid the data's apparent self-organization. To clarify how patterns of brain activity support brain function, one might identify metric spaces that optimally distinguish brain states across experimentally defined conditions. Therefore, the present study considers the relative capacities of several metric spaces to disambiguate experimentally defined brain states. One fundamental metric space interprets fMRI data topographically, that is, as the vector of amplitudes of a multivariate signal, changing with time. Another perspective compares the brain's functional connectivity, that is, the similarity matrix computed between signals from different brain regions. More recently, metric spaces that consider the data's topology have become available. Such methods treat data as a sample drawn from an abstract geometric object. To recover the structure of that object, topological data analysis detects features that are invariant under continuous deformations (such as coordinate rotation and nodal misalignment). Moreover, the methods explicitly consider features that persist across multiple geometric scales. While, certainly, there are strengths and weaknesses of each brain dynamics metric space, wefind that those that track topological features optimally distinguish experimentally defined brain states.

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Functional connectivityPersistent homologyTime-varying functional connectivityTopological data analysis

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