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Verena D Schmittmann¹, Sara Jahfari², Denny Borsboom³

¹Department of Methodology and Statistics/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands.

|September 2, 2015

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Pairwise correlations inaccurately represent large brain networks from fMRI data. Partial correlations, especially with a sparseness penalty, provide more accurate network estimations, filtering indirect connections effectively.

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Area of Science:

Neuroimaging
Network Science
Computational Neuroscience

Background:

Pairwise correlations are widely used for large-scale functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) network estimation.
This method often fails to accurately represent true brain connectivity, distinguishing poorly between direct and indirect links.

Purpose of the Study:

To compare the performance of pairwise correlations against methods that filter indirect connections for large-scale brain networks.
To evaluate network recovery in simulated topologies under limited observations.

Main Methods:

Simulation studies with four network topologies (small-world, scale-free).
Comparison of pairwise correlations with three indirect connection filtering methods.
Application to resting-state fMRI data with 2000 nodes.

Main Results:

Pairwise correlation networks showed fragmentation and excessive within-component connectivity.
Erroneous network metrics (e.g., small-world properties, centrality) were observed with pairwise correlations.
Partial correlations, particularly with a sparseness penalty, yielded more accurate networks and metrics.

Conclusions:

Pairwise correlations provide a poor representation of large-scale brain networks from fMRI.
Partial correlations, informed by a sparseness penalty, offer superior accuracy for network estimation.
Partial correlations demonstrate greater robustness to parcellation and time-series length variations in resting-state fMRI.