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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2022

Development and Testing of SPIDER-NET: An Interactive Tool for Brain Connectogram Visualization, Sub-Network Exploration and Graph Metrics Quantification.

Davide Coluzzi, Alice Pirastru, Laura Pelizzari, Monia Cabinio, Maria Marcella Laganà, Giuseppe Baselli, Francesca Baglio

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Davide ColuzziDipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Alice PirastruIRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus, Milan, Italy.
Laura PelizzariIRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus, Milan, Italy.
Monia CabinioIRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus, Milan, Italy.
Maria Marcella LaganàIRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus, Milan, Italy.
Giuseppe BaselliDipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Francesca BaglioIRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus, Milan, Italy.

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Abstract

Brain connectomics consists in the modeling of human brain as networks, mathematically represented as numerical connectivity matrices. However, this representation may result in difficult interpretation of the data. To overcome this limitation, graphical representation by connectograms is currently used via open-source tools, which, however, lack user-friendly interfaces and options to explore specific sub-networks. In this context, we developed SPIDER-NET (Software Package Ideal for Deriving Enhanced Representations of brain NETworks), an easy-to-use, flexible, and interactive tool for connectograms generation and sub-network exploration. This study aims to present SPIDER-NET and to test its potential impact on pilot cases. As a working example, structural connectivity (SC) was investigated with SPIDER-NET in a group of 17 healthy controls (HCs) and in two subjects with stroke injury (Case 1 and Case 2, both with a focal lesion affecting part of the right frontal lobe, insular cortex and subcortical structures). 165 parcels were determined from individual structural magnetic resonance imaging data by using the Destrieux atlas, and defined as nodes. SC matrices were derived with Diffusion Tensor Imaging tractography. SC matrices of HCs were averaged to obtain a single group matrix. SC matrices were then used as input for SPIDER-NET. First, SPIDER-NET was used to derive the connectogram of the right hemisphere of Case 1 and Case 2. Then, a sub-network of interest (i.e., including gray matter regions affected by the stroke lesions) was interactively selected and the associated connectograms were derived for Case 1, Case 2 and HCs. Finally, graph-based metrics were derived for whole-brain SC matrices of Case 1, Case 2 and HCs. The software resulted effective in representing the expected (dis) connectivity pattern in the hemisphere affected by the stroke lesion in Cases 1 and 2. Furthermore, SPIDER-NET allowed to test an

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