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Topological Data Analysis Captures Task-Driven fMRI Profiles in Individual Participants: A Classification Pipeline Based on Persistence

Authors: Michael J. Catanzaro, Sam Rizzo, John Kopchick, Asadur Chowdury, David R. Rosenberg, Peter Bubenik, Vaibhav A. Diwadkar

Published in: Neuroinformatics | Issue 1/2024

Abstract

BOLD-based fMRI is the most widely used method for studying brain function. The BOLD signal while valuable, is beset with unique vulnerabilities. The most notable of these is the modest signal to noise ratio, and the relatively low temporal and spatial resolution. However, the high dimensional complexity of the BOLD signal also presents unique opportunities for functional discovery. Topological Data Analyses (TDA), a branch of mathematics optimized to search for specific classes of structure within high dimensional data may provide particularly valuable applications. In this investigation, we acquired fMRI data in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) using a basic motor control paradigm. Then, for each participant and each of three task conditions, fMRI signals in the ACC were summarized using two methods: a) TDA based methods of persistent homology and persistence landscapes and b) non-TDA based methods using a standard vectorization scheme. Finally, using machine learning (with support vector classifiers), classification accuracy of TDA and non-TDA vectorized data was tested across participants. In each participant, TDA-based classification out-performed the non-TDA based counterpart, suggesting that our TDA analytic pipeline better characterized task- and condition-induced structure in fMRI data in the ACC. Our results emphasize the value of TDA in characterizing task- and condition-induced structure in regional fMRI signals. In addition to providing our analytical tools for other users to emulate, we also discuss the unique role that TDA-based methods can play in the study of individual differences in the structure of functional brain signals in the healthy and the clinical brain.

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Title: Topological Data Analysis Captures Task-Driven fMRI Profiles in Individual Participants: A Classification Pipeline Based on Persistence
Authors: Michael J. Catanzaro
Sam Rizzo
John Kopchick
Asadur Chowdury
David R. Rosenberg
Peter Bubenik
Vaibhav A. Diwadkar
Publication date: 04-11-2023
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Neuroinformatics / Issue 1/2024
Print ISSN: 1539-2791
Electronic ISSN: 1559-0089
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12021-023-09645-3

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