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Brain Structure-Informed Functional Signatures for Individual Fingerprinting via Graph Signal Processing.
Rel. Valentina Agostini. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2023
Abstract
Resting-state fMRI has proven to entail subject-specific signatures that can serve as a fingerprint to identify individuals. Conventional methods are based on building a connectivity matrix based on correlation between the average time course of pairs of brain regions. This approach, first, disregards the exquisite spatial detail manifested by fMRI due to working on average regional activities, second, cannot disentangle correlations associated to cognitive activity and underlying noise, and third, does not account for cortical morphology that spatially constraints function. Here I propose a method to address these shortcomings via leveraging principles from graph signal processing. High spatial resolution cortical graphs that encode each individual's cortical morphology are built and region-specific, whole-hemisphere fMRI maps are used as signals that reside on the graphs.
fMRI graph signals are then decomposed using systems of graph spectral kernels to extract structure-informed functional signatures, which are in turn used for fingerprinting
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