Learn the effective connectivity pattern of attention networks: a resting functional MRI and Bayesian network study

Juan Li; Rui Li; Li Yao; Xia Wu

doi:10.1117/12.877501

9 March 2011 Learn the effective connectivity pattern of attention networks: a resting functional MRI and Bayesian network study

Juan Li, Rui Li, Li Yao, Xia Wu

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Proceedings Volume 7965, Medical Imaging 2011: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging; 796506 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.877501
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2011, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida, United States

Abstract

Task-based neuroimaging studies revealed that different attention operations were carried out by the functional interaction and cooperation between two attention systems: the dorsal attention network (DAN) and the ventral attention network (VAN), which were respectively involved in the "top-down" endogenous attention orienting and the "bottomup" exogenous attention reorienting process. Recent focused resting functional MRI (fMRI) studies found the two attention systems were inherently organized in the human brain regardless of whether or not the attention process were required, but how the two attention systems interact with each other in the absence of task is yet to be investigated. In this study, we first separated the DAN and VAN by applying the group independent component analysis (ICA) to the resting fMRI data acquired from 12 healthy young subjects, then used Gaussian Bayesian network (BN) learning approach to explore the plausible effective connectivity pattern of the two attention systems. It was found regions from the same attention network were strongly intra-dependent, and all the connections were located in the information flow from VAN to DAN, which suggested that an orderly functional interactions and information exchanges between the two attention networks existed in the intrinsic spontaneous brain activity, and the inherent connections might benefit the efficient cognitive process between DAN and VAN, such as the "top-down" and "bottom-up" reciprocal interaction when attention-related tasks were involved.

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Juan Li, Rui Li, Li Yao, and Xia Wu "Learn the effective connectivity pattern of attention networks: a resting functional MRI and Bayesian network study", Proc. SPIE 7965, Medical Imaging 2011: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, 796506 (9 March 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.877501

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Independent component analysis

Laser induced plasma spectroscopy

Brain

Functional magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic resonance imaging

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Neuroimaging

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