Towards a new approach to reveal dynamical organization of the brain using topological data analysis

Manish Saggar (), Olaf Sporns, Javier Gonzalez-Castillo, Peter A. Bandettini, Gunnar Carlsson, Gary Glover and Allan L. Reiss
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Manish Saggar: Stanford University
Olaf Sporns: Indiana University
Javier Gonzalez-Castillo: National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
Peter A. Bandettini: National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
Gunnar Carlsson: Stanford University
Gary Glover: Stanford University
Allan L. Reiss: Stanford University

Nature Communications, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-14

Abstract: Abstract Little is known about how our brains dynamically adapt for efficient functioning. Most previous work has focused on analyzing changes in co-fluctuations between a set of brain regions over several temporal segments of the data. We argue that by collapsing data in space or time, we stand to lose useful information about the brain’s dynamical organization. Here we use Topological Data Analysis to reveal the overall organization of whole-brain activity maps at a single-participant level—as an interactive representation—without arbitrarily collapsing data in space or time. Using existing multitask fMRI datasets, with the known ground truth about the timing of transitions from one task-block to next, our approach tracks both within- and between-task transitions at a much faster time scale (~4–9 s) than before. The individual differences in the revealed dynamical organization predict task performance. In summary, our approach distills complex brain dynamics into interactive and behaviorally relevant representations.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03664-4

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