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BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION
Volume 228, Issue 2, Pages 651-662Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-023-02613-2
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Structure-function relationship; DTI; rsfMRI; Graph theory; Diffusion model; Shortest path routing model
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The relationship between structural and functional connectivity in the human brain is a fundamental question in network neuroscience, crucial for understanding functional outcomes. Graph theory measures based on the structural connectivity network have been used to study functional connectivity. The diffusion model accounts for more variance in functional connectivity than the shortest path routing model, suggesting that it is better suited to describe the structure-function relationship in the human brain at the macroscale.
The relationship between structural and functional connectivity in the human brain is a core question in network neuroscience, and a topic of paramount importance to our ability to meaningfully describe and predict functional outcomes. Graph theory has been used to produce measures based on the structural connectivity network that are related to functional connectivity. These measures are commonly based on either the shortest path routing model or the diffusion model, which carry distinct assumptions about how information is transferred through the network. Unlike shortest path routing, which assumes the most efficient path is always known, the diffusion model makes no such assumption, and lets information diffuse in parallel based on the number of connections to other regions. Past research has also developed hybrid measures that use concepts from both models, which have better predicted functional connectivity from structural connectivity than the shortest path length alone. We examined the extent to which each of these models can account for the structure-function relationship of interest using graph theory measures that are exclusively based on each model. This analysis was performed on multiple parcellations of the Human Connectome Project using multiple approaches, which all converged on the same finding. We found that the diffusion model accounts for much more variance in functional connectivity than the shortest path routing model, suggesting that the diffusion model is better suited to describing the structure-function relationship in the human brain at the macroscale.
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