Association between abnormal brain functional connectivity in children and psychopathology: A study based on graph theory and machine learning

João Ricardo Sato*, Claudinei Eduardo Biazoli, Giovanni Abrahão Salum, Ary Gadelha, Nicolas Crossley Karmelic, Gilson Vieira, André Zugman, Felipe Almeida Picon, Pedro Mario Pan, Marcelo Queiroz Hoexter, Edson Amaro, Mauricio Anés, Luciana Monteiro Moura, Marco Antonio Gomes Del’Aquilla, Philip Mcguire, Luis Augusto Rohde, Euripedes Constantino Miguel, Andrea Parolin Jackowski, Rodrigo Affonseca Bressan

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Abstract

Objectives: One of the major challenges facing psychiatry is how to incorporate biological measures in the classification of mental health disorders. Many of these disorders affect brain development and its connectivity. In this study, we propose a novel method for assessing brain networks based on the combination of a graph theory measure (eigenvector centrality) and a one-class support vector machine (OC-SVM). Methods: We applied this approach to resting-state fMRI data from 622 children and adolescents. Eigenvector centrality (EVC) of nodes from positive- and negative-task networks were extracted from each subject and used as input to an OC-SVM to label individual brain networks as typical or atypical. We hypothesised that classification of these subjects regarding the pattern of brain connectivity would predict the level of psychopathology. Results: Subjects with atypical brain network organisation had higher levels of psychopathology (p 

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-11
Number of pages11
JournalWorld Journal of Biological Psychiatry
Early online date8 Feb 2017
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 8 Feb 2017

Keywords

  • children
  • Connectivity
  • fMRI
  • machine learning
  • psychopathology

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