A Classification Mechanism of Brain Functional fMRI in Resting State

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To investigate the brain default mode network (DMN) of healthy young people, a novel hierarchical clustering method was proposed to detect similarities of low-frequency fluctuations between any two out of 160 regions of interest (ROI) all over the brain. Feature of these ROIs were firstextractedand analyzed the feature using hierarchical clustering approach.Combining with the strongest connected network node identified by network centric criterion, the default mode network which presented the strongest connectivity in resting state was then determined. The results demonstrated that cingulate had the highest value of average degree, making it the most suspectof where the centrality indices of DMN lay.The comparative results between nodes included by DMN returned by our method and these given by Dosenbach’s research showed quite high coincidence rates,indicating the proposed method of combining complex network theory and hierarchical clustering analysis feasible method to parse brain regions.

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