期刊
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
卷 43, 期 8, 页码 2419-2443出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25773
关键词
aging; brain parcellation; clustering; diffusion MRI; network neuroscience; structural connectivity
资金
- Danmarks Grundforskningsfond [DNRF117]
- European Social Fund [NORTE 2020]
- FP7 Health [HEALTH-F2-2010-259772]
- Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian [P-139977]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [PD/BD/106050/2015, PDE/BDE/113601/2015, PDE/BDE/113604/2015, SFRH/BD/101398/2014, SFRH/BD/90078/2012]
- National Funds through FCT-Foundation for Science and Technology [UIDB/50026/2020, UIDP/50026/2020]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PDE/BDE/113601/2015, SFRH/BD/90078/2012, SFRH/BD/101398/2014, PD/BD/106050/2015] Funding Source: FCT
This study proposes a new CBP method based on diffusion MRI data and demonstrates its potential to accurately characterize the longitudinal alterations in brain network topology occurring during aging. The method successfully generates highly homogeneous parcels and provides a robust anatomical framework to assess aging-related changes in the brain's structural network.
Connectivity-based parcellation (CBP) methods are used to define homogenous and biologically meaningful parcels or nodes-the foundations of brain network fingerprinting-by grouping voxels with similar patterns of brain connectivity. However, we still lack a gold standard method and the use of CBPs to study the aging brain remains scarce. Our study proposes a novel CBP method from diffusion MRI data and shows its potential to produce a more accurate characterization of the longitudinal alterations in brain network topology occurring in aging. For this, we constructed whole-brain connectivity maps from diffusion MRI data of two datasets: an aging cohort evaluated at two timepoints (mean interval time: 52.8 +/- 7.24 months) and a normative adult cohort-MGH-HCP. State-of-the-art clustering techniques were used to identify the best performing technique. Furthermore, we developed a new metric (connectivity homogeneity fingerprint [CHF]) to evaluate the success of the final CBP in improving regional/global structural connectivity homogeneity. Our results show that our method successfully generates highly homogeneous parcels, as described by the significantly larger CHF score of the resulting parcellation, when compared to the original. Additionally, we demonstrated that the developed parcellation provides a robust anatomical framework to assess longitudinal changes in the aging brain. Our results reveal that aging is characterized by a reorganization of the brain's structural network involving the decrease of intra-hemispheric, increase of inter-hemispheric connectivity, and topological rearrangement. Overall, this study proposes a new methodology to perform accurate and robust evaluations of CBP of the human brain.
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