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Using Informational Connectivity to Measure the Synchronous Emergence of fMRI Multi-voxel Information Across Time

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Inferring functional connectivity through graphical directed information.

Joseph Young¹, Curtis L Neveu², John H Byrne²

¹Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States of America.

Journal of Neural Engineering

|March 8, 2021

Summary

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A new method, graphical directed information (GDI), accurately maps brain connectivity by reducing indirect connections. This powerful tool works across various data types for better neural data analysis.

Keywords:

aplysia causality directed information functional connectivity indirect connectivity information theory mutual information

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Computational Biology
Network Science

Background:

Accurate inference of functional brain connectivity is essential for understanding brain function.
Existing methods struggle to distinguish direct from indirect connections due to poor scaling with dimensionality.
This limitation restricts the number of nodes that can be analyzed, hindering accurate connectivity mapping.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel technique that scales effectively for improved functional connectivity inference.
To minimize indirect connections in network analysis, leading to a more accurate representation of brain circuitry.
To enable conditioning on a larger number of nodes for more robust functional connectivity mapping.

Main Methods:

Introduced graphical directed information (GDI), a powerful model-free framework for functional connectivity analysis.
Utilized recent advances in mutual information (MI) estimation, employing multilayer perceptrons and an alternative Kullback-Leibler divergence representation.
Applied the GDI technique to both discrete and continuous-valued time series data.

Main Results:

GDI successfully inferred the circuitry of diverse networks, including Gaussian, nonlinear, and conductance-based models.
The method accurately identified many connections in a model of the Aplysia central pattern generator circuit.
GDI significantly reduced the number of indirect connections identified in the analyzed neural networks.

Conclusions:

GDI is a versatile, model-free technique applicable to various data types and scales for accurate functional connectivity inference.
The framework effectively addresses the critical challenge of indirect connections in neural data analysis.
GDI provides a more accurate graph of functional connectivity, advancing our understanding of brain networks.