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  • Neuroscience
  • Neuroimaging
  • Computational Biology

Background:

  • The Human Connectome Project (HCP) provides extensive neuroimaging data, but its focus has primarily been on functional MRI (fMRI).
  • A comprehensive structural connectome, mapping physical brain connections, is crucial for understanding brain organization and function.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To generate a full-cortex structural connectome using probabilistic diffusion tractography from HCP data.
  • To organize this connectome according to the HCP Multimodal Parcellation Project (HCP-MMP1.0) atlas.
  • To compare the derived structural connectome with functional connectivity data.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized probabilistic diffusion tractography on diffusion MRI (dMRI) data from the HCP.
  • Employed large sample sizes to enhance the accuracy of tracing low-probability connections.
  • Organized the resulting connectome using the HCP-MMP1.0 atlas.

Main Results:

  • Brain connection strengths followed a lognormal distribution and decayed exponentially with tract length.
  • Structural connectivity showed good agreement with homologous areas in macaque histologic tracing.
  • Contralateral homologs and left-lateralized language areas exhibited hyperconnectivity.
  • Hierarchical similarity was identified as a factor influencing connectivity patterns.

Conclusions:

  • The generated dMRI-based connectome provides a valuable structural map complementing HCP's functional data.
  • This structural connectome is more aligned with cortico-cortico-evoked potential connectivity than resting-state fMRI.
  • Enables direct comparisons between structural and functional brain connectivity across various conditions.