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Early brain development is characterized by the formation of a highly organized structural connectome. The interconnected nature of this connectome underlies the brain's cognitive abilities and influences its response to diseases and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-24 Yihan Wu , Lana Vasung , Camilo Calixto , Ali Gholipour , Davood Karimi

Current connectivity diagrams of human brain image data are either overly complex or overly simplistic. In this work we introduce simple yet accurate interactive visual representations of multiple brain image structures and the connectivity…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Saad Nadeem , Arie Kaufman

Human braingraphs or connectomes are widely studied in the last decade to understand the structural and functional properties of our brain. In the last several years our research group has computed and deposited thousands of human…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-03 Balint Varga , Vince Grolmusz

Brain connectomics is still largely dominated by pairwise-based models, such as graphs, which cannot represent circulatory or higher-order functional interactions. In this paper, we propose a multimodal framework based on Topological Signal…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-01 Breno C. Bispo , Stefania Sardellitti , Juliano B. Lima , Fernando A. N. Santos

The architecture of the human connectome supports efficient communication protocols relying either on distances between brain regions or on the intensities of connections. However, none of these protocols combines information about the two…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-07 Laia Barjuan , Jordi Soriano , M. Ángeles Serrano

Understanding the relationship between the dynamics of neural processes and the anatomical substrate of the brain is a central question in neuroscience. On the one hand, modern neuroimaging technologies, such as diffusion tensor imaging,…

The shape of the brain's white matter connections is relatively unexplored in diffusion MRI tractography analysis. While it is known that tract shape varies in populations and across the human lifespan, it is unknown if the variability in…

In this study, we explore the fundamental principles behind the architecture of the human brain's structural connectome, from the perspective of spectral analysis of Laplacian and adjacency matrices. Building on the idea that the brain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-28 Anna Bobyleva , Alexander Gorsky , Sergei Nechaev , Olga Valba , Nikita Pospelov

Structural connectivity in the brain is typically studied by reducing its observation to a single spatial resolution. However, the brain possesses a rich architecture organized over multiple scales linked to one another. We explored the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-07 Muhua Zheng , Antoine Allard , Patric Hagmann , Yasser Alemán-Gómez , M. Ángeles Serrano

In neuroimaging, extensive post-processing of resting-state functional MRI (rfMRI) data is necessary for its application and investigation in relation to brain-behavior associations. Such post-processing is used to derive brain…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ty Easley , Kevin Freese , Elizabeth Munch , Janine Bijsterbosch

Brain network analysis plays a crucial role in diagnosing and monitoring neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Existing approaches for constructing structural brain networks from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) often…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-30 Xuhang Chen , Michael Kwok-Po Ng , Kim-Fung Tsang , Chi-Man Pun , Shuqiang Wang

Here we show a method of directing the edges of the connectomes, prepared from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) datasets from the human brain. Before the present work, no high-definition directed braingraphs (or connectomes) were published,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-29 Balázs Szalkai , Csaba Kerepesi , Bálint Varga , Vince Grolmusz

Brain function emerges from coordinated activity across anatomically connected regions, where structural connectivity (SC) -- the network of white matter pathways - provides the physical substrate for functional connectivity (FC) -- the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-09 Sam Frank Kelemen , Joaquín Gõni , Sérgio Pequito , Arian Ashourvan

The study of brain differences across Eastern and Western populations provides vital insights for understanding potential cultural and genetic influences on cognition and mental health. Diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography is an important tool…

Investigations of the human connectome have elucidated core features of adult structural networks, particularly the crucial role of hub-regions. However, little is known regarding network organisation of the healthy elderly connectome, a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-12-15 Alistair Perry , Wei Wen , Anton Lord , Anbupalam Thalamuthu , Perminder Sachdev , Michael Breakspear

While the major white matter tracts are of great interest to numerous studies in neuroscience and medicine, their manual dissection in larger cohorts from diffusion MRI tractograms is time-consuming, requires expert knowledge and is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Jakob Wasserthal , Peter F. Neher , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is an effective tool for the analysis of structural brain connectivity in normal development and in a broad range of brain disorders. However efforts to derive inherent characteristics of structural brain…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Yu Jin , Joseph F. JaJa , Rong Chen , Edward H. Herskovits

Currently, connectomes (e.g., functional or structural brain graphs) can be estimated in humans at $\approx 1~mm^3$ scale using a combination of diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging and…

Understanding brain connectivity has become one of the most important issues in neuroscience. But connectivity data can reflect either the functional relationships of the brain activities or the anatomical properties between brain areas.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-04-13 Tiago Simas , Mario Chavez , Pablo Rodriguez , Albert Diaz-Guilera

Analysis and quantification of brain structural changes, using Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), are increasingly used to define novel biomarkers of brain pathologies, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Network-based models of the brain have…