Fernando Calamante1,2, Robert Elton Smith1, Xiaoyun Liang1, Andrew Zalesky3, and Alan Connelly1,2
1The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, Australia, 2Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 3Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre and Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
There is great interest in the study of brain connectivity (structural and functional), and on the development of methods that facilitate these investigations. In functional connectivity (FC), there is also growing interest in characterising the dynamic changes (dynamic-FC, dFC). Track-weighted FC (TWFC) was proposed as a means to combine the structural and (static) functional information into a single image, by integrating a functional network with a diffusion MRI tractogram. Here we propose TW-dynamic-FC (TWdFC), by extending TWFC in two ways: first, it does not rely on an a-priori FC network; second, it allows studying dFC.
