Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Mapping higher-order relations between brain structure and function with embedded vector representations of connectomes

  • Gideon Rosenthal,
  • František Váša,
  • Alessandra Griffa,
  • Patric Hagmann,
  • Enrico Amico,
  • Joaquín Goñi,
  • Galia Avidan,
  • Olaf Sporns

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04614-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The function of a brain region is determined by the network it is embedded in. Here the authors implement the word2vec algorithm for connectomes generating a vector embedding of the connectivity structure for each node allowing inference about functional relationships between brain regions.