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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2022

Mathematical Abilities in School-Aged Children: A Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Analysis With Radiomics.

Violeta Pina, Víctor M Campello, Karim Lekadir, Santi Seguí, Jose M García-Santos, Luis J Fuentes

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Violeta PinaDepartamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Facultad de Educación, Economía y Tecnología de Ceuta, Universidad de Granada, Ceuta, Spain.
Víctor M CampelloDepartament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Karim LekadirDepartament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Santi SeguíDepartament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Jose M García-SantosServicio de Radiología, Hospital Morales Meseguer, Murcia, Spain.
Luis J FuentesDepartamento de Psicología Básica y Metodología, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain.

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Structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) studies have shown that children that differ in some mathematical abilities show differences in gray matter volume mainly in parietal and frontal regions that are involved in number processing, attentional control, and memory. In the present study, a structural neuroimaging analysis based on radiomics and machine learning models is presented with the aim of identifying the brain areas that better predict children's performance in a variety of mathematical tests. A sample of 77 school-aged children from third to sixth grade were administered four mathematical tests: Math fluency, Calculation, Applied problems and Quantitative concepts as well as a structural brain imaging scan. By extracting radiomics related to the shape, intensity, and texture of specific brain areas, we observed that areas from the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes, basal ganglia, and limbic system, were differentially related to children's performance in the mathematical tests. sMRI-based analyses in the context of mathematical performance have been mainly focused on volumetric measures. However, the results for radiomics-based analysis showed that for these areas, texture features were the most important for the regression models, while volume accounted for less than 15% of the shape importance. These findings highlight the potential of radiomics for more in-depth analysis of medical images for the identification of brain areas related to mathematical abilities.

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