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A Web Tool for Generating High Quality Machine-readable Biological Pathways

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Strategies for automatic generation of information processing pathway maps.

Anirudh Lakra¹, Cai Wingfield^2,3, Chao Zhang^4,5,6,7

¹Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

Frontiers in Neuroimaging

|December 11, 2025

Summary

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This study introduces automated methods for creating Information Processing Pathway Maps (IPPMs) from brain data, improving efficiency and objectivity over manual methods. The max pooling approach demonstrated the best performance in recovering true brain information pathways.

Keywords:

auditory processing electroencaphlography information processing pathway maps magnetoencepalography motion processing

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience
Data Science

Background:

Information Processing Pathway Maps (IPPMs) visualize brain information flow.
Current IPPM construction relies on subjective, labor-intensive manual mapping from electrophysiological data (MEG/EEG).
Objective and automated methods are needed for efficient and reproducible IPPM generation.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and evaluate automated strategies for generating IPPMs from neurophysiological data.
To introduce objective metrics for assessing the accuracy of automatically generated IPPMs.
To identify the optimal automated procedure for IPPM creation.

Main Methods:

A novel dataset was created for evaluating automated IPPM generation.
Two new metrics, causality violation and transform recall, were proposed for IPPM accuracy assessment.
A simulation study compared various automated IPPM creation procedures, including max pooling.

Main Results:

The max pooling approach yielded the best performance based on the proposed evaluation metrics.
The study successfully demonstrated the feasibility of automated IPPM generation and evaluation.
Ground-truth IPPMs could be recovered with reasonable accuracy using the automated procedure.

Conclusions:

Automated generation of IPPMs is a viable and objective alternative to manual methods.
The max pooling strategy shows promise for accurate IPPM construction.
Further research can refine these methods and explore their application in diverse neuroscience research.