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  • Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Biomedical Engineering

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  • Motor imagery (MI) involves extensive brain networks for action simulation.
  • Understanding brain network reorganization post-spinal cord injury (SCI) is vital for assessing neural activity.
  • Investigating these changes can reveal mechanisms underlying functional recovery.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine brain network reorganization during MI in SCI patients.
  • To analyze alterations in different frequency bands from resting state to MI.
  • To introduce and validate a novel classification algorithm for EEG data.

Main Methods:

  • Electroencephalogram (EEG) coherence analysis was performed on SCI patient data.
  • Brain network activity was compared between resting state and MI tasks.
  • A consistency calculation-based residual graph convolution (C-ResGCN) algorithm was developed for classification.

Main Results:

  • EEG coherence analysis revealed decreased [Formula: see text]- and [Formula: see text]-band connectivity during MI compared to rest.
  • [Formula: see text]-band connectivity increased in motor regions, while default mode network activity decreased during MI.
  • The C-ResGCN algorithm achieved a high classification accuracy of 96.25%.

Conclusions:

  • Brain reorganization in SCI patients shifts resources from resting state to MI tasks.
  • Effective network reorganization is linked to improved MI performance.
  • Findings suggest potential biomarkers for evaluating SCI rehabilitation outcomes.