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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Network Science
  • Computational Biology

Background:

  • Group-based brain connectivity networks offer insights into brain function across states and diseases.
  • Accurately representing group brain networks is difficult due to inter-subject variability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate conventional mean/median correlation networks for group representation.
  • To introduce and assess an exponential random graph model (ERGM) approach for constructing group brain networks.

Main Methods:

  • Investigated the performance of mean and median correlation networks.
  • Proposed and applied an exponential random graph modeling (ERGM) framework.
  • Compared ERGM performance against conventional methods.

Main Results:

  • Mean and median correlation networks' topological properties may not accurately represent group characteristics.
  • The proposed ERGM approach demonstrated superior performance compared to conventional methods.
  • ERGMs provide an accurate and flexible method for constructing representative group brain networks.

Conclusions:

  • Exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are a more effective approach for building representative group brain networks.
  • ERGMs address limitations of traditional methods in capturing topological properties of group brain connectivity.