Browsing by Author "Cai, Chengtao"

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    Identifying Connectome Module Patterns via New Balanced Multi-Graph Normalized Cut.
    (Springer, 2015-10) Gao, Hongchang; Cai, Chengtao; Yan, Jingwen; Yan, Lin; Cortes, Joaquin Goni; Wang, Yang; Nie, Feiping; West, John; Saykin, Andrew J.; Shen, Li; Huang, Heng; Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, IU School of Medicine
    Computational tools for the analysis of complex biological networks are lacking in human connectome research. Especially, how to discover the brain network patterns shared by a group of subjects is a challenging computational neuroscience problem. Although some single graph clustering methods can be extended to solve the multi-graph cases, the discovered network patterns are often imbalanced, e.g. isolated points. To address these problems, we propose a novel indicator constrained and balanced multi-graph normalized cut method to identify the connectome module patterns from the connectivity brain networks of the targeted subject group. We evaluated our method by analyzing the weighted fiber connectivity networks.
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    Integrated Visualization of Human Brain Connectome Data
    (Springer, 2015-08) Li, Huang; Fang, Shiaofen; Goni, Joaquin; Contreras, Joey A.; Liang, Yanhua; Cai, Chengtao; West, John D.; Risacher, Shannon L.; Wang, Yang; Sporns, Olaf; Saykin, Andrew J.; Shen, Li; Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, IU School of Medicine
    Visualization plays a vital role in the analysis of multi-modal neuroimaging data. A major challenge in neuroimaging visualization is how to integrate structural, functional and connectivity data to form a comprehensive visual context for data exploration, quality control, and hypothesis discovery. We develop a new integrated visualization solution for brain imaging data by combining scientific and information visualization techniques within the context of the same anatomic structure. New surface texture techniques are developed to map non-spatial attributes onto the brain surfaces from MRI scans. Two types of non-spatial information are represented: (1) time-series data from resting-state functional MRI measuring brain activation; (2) network properties derived from structural connectivity data for different groups of subjects, which may help guide the detection of differentiation features. Through visual exploration, this integrated solution can help identify brain regions with highly correlated functional activations as well as their activation patterns. Visual detection of differentiation features can also potentially discover image based phenotypic biomarkers for brain diseases.