Higher Technical School of Informatics Engineering, University of Seville, Avda. Reina Mercedes, s/n, 41012 Seville, Spain.
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Via Eudossiana, 18, 00184 Rome, Italy.
Sensors (Basel). 2023 Oct 20;23(20):8607. doi: 10.3390/s23208607.
The purpose of this work is to advance in the computational study of connectome graphs from a topological point of view. Specifically, starting from a sequence of hypergraphs associated to a brain graph (obtained using the Boundary Scale model, BS2), we analyze the resulting scale-space representation using classical topological features, such as Betti numbers and average node and edge degrees. In this way, the topological information that can be extracted from the original graph is substantially enriched, thus providing an insightful description of the graph from a clinical perspective. To assess the qualitative and quantitative topological information gain of the BS2 model, we carried out an empirical analysis of neuroimaging data using a dataset that contains the connectomes of 96 healthy subjects, 52 women and 44 men, generated from MRI scans in the Human Connectome Project. The results obtained shed light on the differences between these two classes of subjects in terms of neural connectivity.
这项工作旨在从拓扑学的角度深入研究连接组图的计算研究。具体来说,从与脑图(使用边界尺度模型 BS2 获得)相关的一系列超图出发,我们使用经典拓扑特征(如贝蒂数和平均节点与边度数)分析所得的尺度空间表示。这样,就可以从原始图中提取出更丰富的拓扑信息,从而从临床角度对图进行深入描述。为了评估 BS2 模型提取的拓扑信息的定性和定量增益,我们对包含 96 位健康受试者的连接组学数据进行了实证分析,这些受试者来自人类连接组计划的 MRI 扫描,其中包括 52 名女性和 44 名男性。所得结果揭示了这两类受试者在神经连通性方面的差异。