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ArticleBiometrics2022

Extracting brain disease-related connectome subgraphs by adaptive dense subgraph discovery.

Qiong Wu, Xiaoqi Huang, Adam J Culbreth, James A Waltz, L Elliot Hong, Shuo Chen

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Article in Biometrics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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  2. Tobacco Smoking Functional Networks: A Whole-Brain Connectome Analysis in 24 539 Individuals.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025
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  6. Secondary analysis: Graph analysis of brain connectivity network in autism spectrum disorder.Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · 2024
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6 authors.

Qiong WuDepartment of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5747-1899
Xiaoqi HuangDepartment of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4410-9185
Adam J CulbrethMaryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
James A WaltzMaryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
L Elliot HongMaryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Shuo ChenMaryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Funding

Reward System Function as a Potential Mediator of the Impact of Stress on Psychopathology: A Computational Neuroimaging StudyR01MH115031 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI WALTZ, JAMES A · 2018 to 2022
$2.6M
A Multivariate Mediation and Deep Learning Framework for Genome-Connectome -Substance Use ResearchDP1DA048968 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI CHEN, SHUO · 2019 to 2023
$2.3M
NIDA NIH HHS DP1 DA048968NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH115031
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Group-level brain connectome analysis has attracted increasing interest in neuropsychiatric research with the goal of identifying connectomic subnetworks (subgraphs) that are systematically associated with brain disorders. However, extracting disease-related subnetworks from the whole brain connectome has been challenging, because no prior knowledge is available regarding the sizes and locations of the subnetworks. In addition, neuroimaging data are often mixed with substantial noise that can further obscure informative subnetwork detection. We propose a likelihood-based adaptive dense subgraph discovery (ADSD) model to extract disease-related subgraphs from the group-level whole brain connectome data. Our method is robust to both false positive and false negative errors of edge-wise inference and thus can lead to a more accurate discovery of latent disease-related connectomic subnetworks. We develop computationally efficient algorithms to implement the novel ADSD objective function and derive theoretical results to guarantee the convergence properties. We apply the proposed approach to a brain fMRI study for schizophrenia research and identify well-organized and biologically meaningful subnetworks that exhibit schizophrenia-related salience network centered connectivity abnormality. Analysis of synthetic data also demonstrates the superior performance of the ADSD method for latent subnetwork detection in comparison with existing methods in various settings.

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Brain DiseasesConnectomeBrainHumansLikelihood FunctionsMagnetic Resonance Imagingbrain connectomedense subgraphfMRIlikelihood-based criterionpermutation testschizophrenia

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PMID34374075
PMCPMC10396394

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