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17 December 2019 Density center-based fast clustering of widefield fluorescence imaging of cortical mesoscale functional connectivity and relation to structural connectivity
Miaowen Li, Shen Gui, Qin Huang, Liang Shi, Jinling Lu, Pengcheng Li
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Abstract

Spontaneous resting-state neural activity or hemodynamics has been used to reveal functional connectivity in the brain. However, most of the commonly used clustering algorithms for functional parcellation are time-consuming, especially for high-resolution imaging data. We propose a density center-based fast clustering (DCBFC) method that can rapidly perform the functional parcellation of isocortex. DCBFC was validated using both simulation data and the spontaneous calcium signals from widefield fluorescence imaging of excitatory neuron-expressing transgenic mice (Vglut2-GCaMP6s). Compared to commonly used clustering methods such as k-means, hierarchical, and spectral, DCBFC showed a higher adjusted Rand index when the signal-to-noise ratio was greater than −8  dB for simulated data and higher silhouette coefficient for in vivo mouse data. The resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) patterns obtained by DCBFC were compared with the anatomic axonal projection density (PDs) maps derived from the voxel-scale model. The results showed a high spatial correlation between RSFC patterns and PDs.

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Miaowen Li, Shen Gui, Qin Huang, Liang Shi, Jinling Lu, and Pengcheng Li "Density center-based fast clustering of widefield fluorescence imaging of cortical mesoscale functional connectivity and relation to structural connectivity," Neurophotonics 6(4), 045014 (17 December 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.NPh.6.4.045014
Received: 4 June 2019; Accepted: 20 November 2019; Published: 17 December 2019
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KEYWORDS
Brain

Signal to noise ratio

Luminescence

Calcium

Brain mapping

Neurophotonics

In vivo imaging

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