Causality-Based Feature Fusion for Brain Neuro-Developmental Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Human brain development is a complex and dynamic process caused by several factors such as genetics, sex hormones, and environmental changes. A number of recent studies on brain development have examined functional connectivity (FC) defined by the temporal correlation between time series of different brain regions. We propose to add the directional flow of information during brain maturation. To do so, we extract effective connectivity (EC) through Granger causality (GC) for two different groups of subjects, i.e., children and young adults. The motivation is that the inclusion of causal interaction may further discriminate brain connections between two age groups and help to discover new connections between brain regions. The contributions of this study are threefold. First, there has been

SUBMITTER: Hosseinzadeh Kassani P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7735538 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature