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Poster

Detrended Partial Cross Correlation for Brain Connectivity Analysis

Jaime Ide · Fábio Cappabianco · Fabio Faria · Chiang-shan R Li

Pacific Ballroom #147

Keywords: [ Time Series Analysis ] [ Neuroscience and cognitive science ] [ Neuroscience ] [ Connectomics ] [ Neural Coding ]


Abstract:

Brain connectivity analysis is a critical component of ongoing human connectome projects to decipher the healthy and diseased brain. Recent work has highlighted the power-law (multi-time scale) properties of brain signals; however, there remains a lack of methods to specifically quantify short- vs. long- time range brain connections. In this paper, using detrended partial cross-correlation analysis (DPCCA), we propose a novel functional connectivity measure to delineate brain interactions at multiple time scales, while controlling for covariates. We use a rich simulated fMRI dataset to validate the proposed method, and apply it to a real fMRI dataset in a cocaine dependence prediction task. We show that, compared to extant methods, the DPCCA-based approach not only distinguishes short and long memory functional connectivity but also improves feature extraction and enhances classification accuracy. Together, this paper contributes broadly to new computational methodologies in understanding neural information processing.

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