RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Does size matter? The relationship between predictive power of single-subject morphometric networks to spatial scale and edge weight
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 170381
DO 10.1101/170381
A1 Pradeep Reddy Raamana
A1 Stephen C. Strother
A1 for the Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle flagship study of ageing
A1 for The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
YR 2020
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/08/06/170381.abstract
AB Network-level analysis based on anatomical, pairwise similarities (e.g., cortical thickness) has been gaining increasing attention recently. However, there has not been a systematic study of the impact of spatial scale and edge definitions on predictive performance. In order to obtain a clear understanding of relative performance, there is a need for systematic comparison. In this study, we present a histogram-based approach to construct subject-wise weighted networks that enable a principled comparison across different methods of network analysis. We design several weighted networks based on three large publicly available datasets and perform a robust evaluation of their predictive power under four levels of separability. An interesting insight generated is that changes in nodal size (spatial scale) have no significant impact on predictive power among the three classification experiments and two disease cohorts studied, i.e., mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease from ADNI, and Autism from the ABIDE dataset. We also release an open source python package called graynet to enable others to implement the novel network feature extraction algorithm, which is applicable to other modalities as well (due to its domain- and feature-agnostic nature) in diverse applications of connectivity research. In addition, the findings from the ADNI dataset are replicated in the AIBL dataset using an open source machine learning tool called neuropredict.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.