NeuroinformaticsPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-05-07DOI: 10.1007/s12021-024-09665-7
Michał Szczepanik, Adina S Wagner, Stephan Heunis, Laura K Waite, Simon B Eickhoff, Michael Hanke
{"title":"Teaching Research Data Management with DataLad: A Multi-year, Multi-domain Effort.","authors":"Michał Szczepanik, Adina S Wagner, Stephan Heunis, Laura K Waite, Simon B Eickhoff, Michael Hanke","doi":"10.1007/s12021-024-09665-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12021-024-09665-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research data management has become an indispensable skill in modern neuroscience. Researchers can benefit from following good practices as well as from having proficiency in using particular software solutions. But as these domain-agnostic skills are commonly not included in domain-specific graduate education, community efforts increasingly provide early career scientists with opportunities for organised training and materials for self-study. Investing effort in user documentation and interacting with the user base can, in turn, help developers improve quality of their software. In this work, we detail and evaluate our multi-modal teaching approach to research data management in the DataLad ecosystem, both in general and with concrete software use. Spanning an online and printed handbook, a modular course suitable for in-person and virtual teaching, and a flexible collection of research data management tips in a knowledge base, our free and open source collection of training material has made research data management and software training available to various different stakeholders over the past five years.</p>","PeriodicalId":49761,"journal":{"name":"Neuroinformatics","volume":" ","pages":"635-645"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11579187/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140854285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuroinformaticsPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-09-23DOI: 10.1007/s12021-024-09686-2
Joshua K Marchant, Natalie G Ferris, Diana Grass, Magdelena S Allen, Vivek Gopalakrishnan, Mark Olchanyi, Devang Sehgal, Maxina Sheft, Amelia Strom, Berkin Bilgic, Brian Edlow, Elizabeth M C Hillman, Meher R Juttukonda, Laura Lewis, Shahin Nasr, Aapo Nummenmaa, Jonathan R Polimeni, Roger B H Tootell, Lawrence L Wald, Hui Wang, Anastasia Yendiki, Susie Y Huang, Bruce R Rosen, Randy L Gollub
{"title":"Mesoscale Brain Mapping: Bridging Scales and Modalities in Neuroimaging - A Symposium Review.","authors":"Joshua K Marchant, Natalie G Ferris, Diana Grass, Magdelena S Allen, Vivek Gopalakrishnan, Mark Olchanyi, Devang Sehgal, Maxina Sheft, Amelia Strom, Berkin Bilgic, Brian Edlow, Elizabeth M C Hillman, Meher R Juttukonda, Laura Lewis, Shahin Nasr, Aapo Nummenmaa, Jonathan R Polimeni, Roger B H Tootell, Lawrence L Wald, Hui Wang, Anastasia Yendiki, Susie Y Huang, Bruce R Rosen, Randy L Gollub","doi":"10.1007/s12021-024-09686-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12021-024-09686-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Advances in the spatiotemporal resolution and field-of-view of neuroimaging tools are driving mesoscale studies for translational neuroscience. On October 10, 2023, the Center for Mesoscale Mapping (CMM) at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Health Sciences Technology based Neuroimaging Training Program (NTP) hosted a symposium exploring the state-of-the-art in this rapidly growing area of research. \"Mesoscale Brain Mapping: Bridging Scales and Modalities in Neuroimaging\" brought together researchers who use a broad range of imaging techniques to study brain structure and function at the convergence of the microscopic and macroscopic scales. The day-long event centered on areas in which the CMM has established expertise, including the development of emerging technologies and their application to clinical translational needs and basic neuroscience questions. The in-person symposium welcomed more than 150 attendees, including 57 faculty members, 61 postdoctoral fellows, 35 students, and four industry professionals, who represented institutions at the local, regional, and international levels. The symposium also served the training goals of both the CMM and the NTP. The event content, organization, and format were planned collaboratively by the faculty and trainees. Many CMM faculty presented or participated in a panel discussion, thus contributing to the dissemination of both the technologies they have developed under the auspices of the CMM and the findings they have obtained using those technologies. NTP trainees who benefited from the symposium included those who helped to organize the symposium and/or presented posters and gave \"flash\" oral presentations. In addition to gaining experience from presenting their work, they had opportunities throughout the day to engage in one-on-one discussions with visiting scientists and other faculty, potentially opening the door to future collaborations. The symposium presentations provided a deep exploration of the many technological advances enabling progress in structural and functional mesoscale brain imaging. Finally, students worked closely with the presenting faculty to develop this report summarizing the content of the symposium and putting it in the broader context of the current state of the field to share with the scientific community. We note that the references cited here include conference abstracts corresponding to the symposium poster presentations.</p>","PeriodicalId":49761,"journal":{"name":"Neuroinformatics","volume":" ","pages":"679-706"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11579116/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142299585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuroinformaticsPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1007/s12021-024-09694-2
Kevin H Guo, Nikhil N Chaudhari, Tamara Jafar, Nahian F Chowdhury, Paul Bogdan, Andrei Irimia
{"title":"Anatomic Interpretability in Neuroimage Deep Learning: Saliency Approaches for Typical Aging and Traumatic Brain Injury.","authors":"Kevin H Guo, Nikhil N Chaudhari, Tamara Jafar, Nahian F Chowdhury, Paul Bogdan, Andrei Irimia","doi":"10.1007/s12021-024-09694-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12021-024-09694-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The black box nature of deep neural networks (DNNs) makes researchers and clinicians hesitant to rely on their findings. Saliency maps can enhance DNN explainability by suggesting the anatomic localization of relevant brain features. This study compares seven popular attribution-based saliency approaches to assign neuroanatomic interpretability to DNNs that estimate biological brain age (BA) from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Cognitively normal (CN) adults (N = 13,394, 5,900 males; mean age: 65.82 ± 8.89 years) are included for DNN training, testing, validation, and saliency map generation to estimate BA. To study saliency robustness to the presence of anatomic deviations from normality, saliency maps are also generated for adults with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI, <math><mi>N</mi></math> = 214, 135 males; mean age: 55.3 ± 9.9 years). We assess saliency methods' capacities to capture known anatomic features of brain aging and compare them to a surrogate ground truth whose anatomic saliency is known a priori. Anatomic aging features are identified most reliably by the integrated gradients method, which outperforms all others through its ability to localize relevant anatomic features. Gradient Shapley additive explanations, input × gradient, and masked gradient perform less consistently but still highlight ubiquitous neuroanatomic features of aging (ventricle dilation, hippocampal atrophy, sulcal widening). Saliency methods involving gradient saliency, guided backpropagation, and guided gradient-weight class attribution mapping localize saliency outside the brain, which is undesirable. Our research suggests the relative tradeoffs of saliency methods to interpret DNN findings during BA estimation in typical aging and after mTBI.</p>","PeriodicalId":49761,"journal":{"name":"Neuroinformatics","volume":" ","pages":"591-606"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11579113/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142584767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuroinformaticsPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-05-20DOI: 10.1007/s12021-024-09666-6
Ariel Rokem, Noah C Benson
{"title":"Hands-On Neuroinformatics Education at the Crossroads of Online and In-Person: Lessons Learned from NeuroHackademy.","authors":"Ariel Rokem, Noah C Benson","doi":"10.1007/s12021-024-09666-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12021-024-09666-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>NeuroHackademy ( https://neurohackademy.org ) is a two-week event designed to train early-career neuroscience researchers in data science methods and their application to neuroimaging. The event seeks to bridge the big data skills gap by introducing participants to data science methods and skills that are often ignored in traditional curricula. Such skills are needed for the analysis and interpretation of the kinds of large and complex datasets that have become increasingly important to neuroimaging research due to concerted data collection efforts. In 2020, the event rapidly pivoted from an in-person event to an online event that included hundreds of participants from all over the world. This experience and those of the participants substantially changed our valuation of large online-accessible events. In subsequent events held in 2022 and 2023, we have developed a \"hybrid\" format that includes both online and in-person participants. We discuss the technical and sociotechnical elements of hybrid events and discuss some of the lessons we have learned while organizing them. We emphasize in particular the role that these events can play in creating a global and inclusive community of practice in the intersection of neuroimaging and data science.</p>","PeriodicalId":49761,"journal":{"name":"Neuroinformatics","volume":" ","pages":"647-655"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11629832/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141066413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuroinformaticsPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-07-11DOI: 10.1007/s12021-024-09681-7
Xiaojian Kang, Byung C Yoon, Emily Grossner, Maheen M Adamson
{"title":"Characteristics of the Structural Connectivity in Patients with Brain Injury and Chronic Health Symptoms: A Pilot Study.","authors":"Xiaojian Kang, Byung C Yoon, Emily Grossner, Maheen M Adamson","doi":"10.1007/s12021-024-09681-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12021-024-09681-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diffusion properties from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) are exquisitely sensitive to white matter abnormalities incurred during traumatic brain injury (TBI), especially for those patients with chronic post-TBI symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, fatigue, etc. The evaluation of structural and functional connectivity using DTI has become a promising method for identifying subtle alterations in brain connectivity associated with TBI that are otherwise not visible with conventional imaging. This study assessed whether TBI patients with (n = 17) or without (n = 16) chronic symptoms (TBIcs/TBIncs) exhibit any changes in structural connectivity (SC) and mean fractional anisotropy (mFA) of intra- and inter-hemispheric connections when compared to a control group (CG) (n = 13). Reductions in SC and mFA were observed for TBIcs compared to CG, but not for TBIncs. More connections were found to have mFA reductions than SC reductions. On the whole, SC is dominated by ipsilateral connections for all the groups after the comparison of contralateral and ipsilateral connections. More contra-ipsi reductions of mFA were found for TBIcs than TBIncs compared to CG. These findings suggest that TBI patients with chronic symptoms not only demonstrate decreased global and regional mFA but also reduced structural network connectivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":49761,"journal":{"name":"Neuroinformatics","volume":" ","pages":"573-589"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141581374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuroinformaticsPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1007/s12021-024-09689-z
Simon H Geukes, Mariana P Branco, Erik J Aarnoutse, Annike Bekius, Julia Berezutskaya, Nick F Ramsey
{"title":"Effect of Electrode Distance and Size on Electrocorticographic Recordings in Human Sensorimotor Cortex.","authors":"Simon H Geukes, Mariana P Branco, Erik J Aarnoutse, Annike Bekius, Julia Berezutskaya, Nick F Ramsey","doi":"10.1007/s12021-024-09689-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12021-024-09689-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Subdural electrocorticography (ECoG) is a valuable technique for neuroscientific research and for emerging neurotechnological clinical applications. As ECoG grids accommodate increasing numbers of electrodes and higher densities with new manufacturing methods, the question arises at what point the benefit of higher density ECoG is outweighed by spatial oversampling. To clarify the optimal spacing between ECoG electrodes, in the current study we evaluate how ECoG grid density relates to the amount of non-shared neurophysiological information between electrode pairs, focusing on the sensorimotor cortex. We simultaneously recorded high-density (HD, 3 mm pitch) and ultra-high-density (UHD, 0.9 mm pitch) ECoG, obtained intraoperatively from six participants. We developed a new metric, the normalized differential root mean square (ndRMS), to quantify the information that is not shared between electrode pairs. The ndRMS increases with inter-electrode center-to-center distance up to 15 mm, after which it plateaus. We observed differences in ndRMS between frequency bands, which we interpret in terms of oscillations in frequencies below 32 Hz with phase differences between pairs, versus (un)correlated signal fluctuations in the frequency range above 64 Hz. The finding that UHD recordings yield significantly higher ndRMS than HD recordings is attributed to the amount of tissue sampled by each electrode. These results suggest that ECoG densities with submillimeter electrode distances are likely justified.</p>","PeriodicalId":49761,"journal":{"name":"Neuroinformatics","volume":" ","pages":"707-717"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11579129/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142394753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuroinformaticsPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-06-07DOI: 10.1007/s12021-024-09669-3
Rongke Lyu, Marina Vannucci, Suprateek Kundu
{"title":"Bayesian Tensor Modeling for Image-based Classification of Alzheimer's Disease.","authors":"Rongke Lyu, Marina Vannucci, Suprateek Kundu","doi":"10.1007/s12021-024-09669-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12021-024-09669-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tensor-based representations are being increasingly used to represent complex data types such as imaging data, due to their appealing properties such as dimension reduction and the preservation of spatial information. Recently, there is a growing literature on using Bayesian scalar-on-tensor regression techniques that use tensor-based representations for high-dimensional and spatially distributed covariates to predict continuous outcomes. However surprisingly, there is limited development on corresponding Bayesian classification methods relying on tensor-valued covariates. Standard approaches that vectorize the image are not desirable due to the loss of spatial structure, and alternate methods that use extracted features from the image in the predictive model may suffer from information loss. We propose a novel data augmentation-based Bayesian classification approach relying on tensor-valued covariates, with a focus on imaging predictors. We propose two data augmentation schemes, one resulting in a support vector machine (SVM) type of classifier, and another yielding a logistic regression classifier. While both types of classifiers have been proposed independently in literature, our contribution is to extend such existing methodology to accommodate high-dimensional tensor valued predictors that involve low rank decompositions of the coefficient matrix while preserving the spatial information in the image. An efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm is developed for implementing these methods. Simulation studies show significant improvements in classification accuracy and parameter estimation compared to routinely used classification methods. We further illustrate our method in a neuroimaging application using cortical thickness MRI data from Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, with results displaying better classification accuracy throughout several classification tasks, including classification on pairs of the three diagnostic groups: normal control, AD patients, and MCI patients; gender classification (males vs females); and cognitive performance based on high and low levels of MMSE scores.</p>","PeriodicalId":49761,"journal":{"name":"Neuroinformatics","volume":" ","pages":"437-455"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11780668/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141285165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuroinformaticsPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-05-23DOI: 10.1007/s12021-024-09667-5
Qiu Ge, Matthew Lock, Xue Yang, Yuejiao Ding, Juan Yue, Na Zhao, Yun-Song Hu, Yong Zhang, Minliang Yao, Yu-Feng Zang
{"title":"Utilizing fMRI to Guide TMS Targets: the Reliability and Sensitivity of fMRI Metrics at 3 T and 1.5 T.","authors":"Qiu Ge, Matthew Lock, Xue Yang, Yuejiao Ding, Juan Yue, Na Zhao, Yun-Song Hu, Yong Zhang, Minliang Yao, Yu-Feng Zang","doi":"10.1007/s12021-024-09667-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12021-024-09667-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) system with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging-guided (fMRI) individualized treatment protocol for major depressive disorder, which employs resting state-fMRI (RS-fMRI) functional connectivity (FC) to pinpoint the target individually to increase the accuracy and effeteness of the stimulation. Furthermore, task activation-guided TMS, as well as the use of RS-fMRI local metrics for targeted the specific abnormal brain regions, are considered a precise scheme for TMS targeting. Since 1.5 T MRI is more available in hospitals, systematic evaluation of the test-retest reliability and sensitivity of fMRI metrics on 1.5 T and 3 T MRI may provide reference for the application of fMRI-guided individualized-precise TMS stimulation. Twenty participants underwent three RS-fMRI scans and one scan of finger-tapping task fMRI with self-initiated (SI) and visual-guided (VG) conditions at both 3 T and 1.5 T. Then the location reliability derived by FC (with three seed regions) and peak activation were assessed by intra-individual distance. The test-retest reliability and sensitivity of five RS-fMRI local metrics were evaluated using intra-class correlation and effect size, separately. The intra-individual distance of peak activation location between 1.5 T and 3 T was 15.8 mm and 19 mm for two conditions, respectively. The intra-individual distance for the FC derived targets at 1.5 T was 9.6-31.2 mm, compared to that of 3 T (7.6-31.1 mm). The test-retest reliability and sensitivity of RS-fMRI local metrics showed similar trends on 1.5 T and 3 T. These findings hasten the application of fMRI-guided individualized TMS treatment in clinical practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":49761,"journal":{"name":"Neuroinformatics","volume":" ","pages":"421-435"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141080796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improved ADHD Diagnosis Using EEG Connectivity and Deep Learning through Combining Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Phase-Locking Value.","authors":"Elham Ahmadi Moghadam, Farhad Abedinzadeh Torghabeh, Seyyed Abed Hosseini, Mohammad Hossein Moattar","doi":"10.1007/s12021-024-09685-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12021-024-09685-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a widespread neurobehavioral disorder affecting children and adolescents, requiring early detection for effective treatment. EEG connectivity measures can reveal the interdependencies between EEG recordings, highlighting brain network patterns and functional behavior that improve diagnostic accuracy. This study introduces a novel ADHD diagnostic method by combining linear and nonlinear brain connectivity maps with an attention-based convolutional neural network (Att-CNN). Pearson Correlation Coefficient (PCC) and Phase-Locking Value (PLV) are used to create fused connectivity maps (FCMs) from various EEG frequency subbands, which are then inputted into the Att-CNN. The attention module is strategically placed after the latest convolutional layer in the CNN. The performance of different optimizers (Adam and SGD) and learning rates are assessed. The suggested model obtained 98.88%, 98.41%, 98.19%, and 98.30% for accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 Score, respectively, using the SGD optimizer in the FCM of the theta band with a learning rate of 1e-1. With the use of FCM, Att-CNN, and advanced optimizers, the proposed technique has the potential to produce trustworthy instruments for the early diagnosis of ADHD, greatly enhancing both patient outcomes and diagnostic accuracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":49761,"journal":{"name":"Neuroinformatics","volume":" ","pages":"521-537"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142479144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NeuroinformaticsPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-07-30DOI: 10.1007/s12021-024-09680-8
Rachel Edelstein, Sterling Gutterman, Benjamin Newman, John Darrell Van Horn
{"title":"Assessment of Sports Concussion in Female Athletes: A Role for Neuroinformatics?","authors":"Rachel Edelstein, Sterling Gutterman, Benjamin Newman, John Darrell Van Horn","doi":"10.1007/s12021-024-09680-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12021-024-09680-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Over the past decade, the intricacies of sports-related concussions among female athletes have become readily apparent. Traditional clinical methods for diagnosing concussions suffer limitations when applied to female athletes, often failing to capture subtle changes in brain structure and function. Advanced neuroinformatics techniques and machine learning models have become invaluable assets in this endeavor. While these technologies have been extensively employed in understanding concussion in male athletes, there remains a significant gap in our comprehension of their effectiveness for female athletes. With its remarkable data analysis capacity, machine learning offers a promising avenue to bridge this deficit. By harnessing the power of machine learning, researchers can link observed phenotypic neuroimaging data to sex-specific biological mechanisms, unraveling the mysteries of concussions in female athletes. Furthermore, embedding methods within machine learning enable examining brain architecture and its alterations beyond the conventional anatomical reference frame. In turn, allows researchers to gain deeper insights into the dynamics of concussions, treatment responses, and recovery processes. This paper endeavors to address the crucial issue of sex differences in multimodal neuroimaging experimental design and machine learning approaches within female athlete populations, ultimately ensuring that they receive the tailored care they require when facing the challenges of concussions. Through better data integration, feature identification, knowledge representation, validation, etc., neuroinformaticists, are ideally suited to bring clarity, context, and explainabilty to the study of sports-related head injuries in males and in females, and helping to define recovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":49761,"journal":{"name":"Neuroinformatics","volume":" ","pages":"607-618"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11579174/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141793888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}