Nonlinear effective connectivity measure based on adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System and Granger Causality
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Farokhzadi M, Hossein-Zadeh GA, and Soltanian-Zadeh H. Nonlinear effective connectivity measure based on adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system and granger causality. Neuroimage 2018; 181:382-394.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1-2018
Publication Title
NeuroImage
Abstract
Exploring brain networks is an essential step towards understanding functional organization of the brain, which needs characterization of linear and nonlinear connections based on measurements like EEG or MEG. Conventional measures of connectivity are mostly linear and bivariate. This paper proposes an effective connectivity measure called Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System Granger Causality (ANFISGC). The proposed measure is based on the symplectic geometry embedding dimension, Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) predictor, and Granger Causality (GC). It is a powerful predictor that detects both linear and nonlinear causal information flow. It is not bivariate and thus can distinguish between direct and indirect connections. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated and compared with those of the Linear Granger Causality (LGC), Kernel Granger Causality (KGC), combination of Pairwise Granger Causality and Conditional Granger Causality (PwGC + CGC), Transfer Entropy (TE), and Phase Transfer Entropy (PTE) methods using simulated and experimental MEG data. Simulation results show that ANFISGC outperforms the other methods in detecting both linear and nonlinear connections and, by increasing the coupling strength between nodes, the value of ANFISGC increases. In the analysis of the time series of the brain sources of epilepsy patients obtained from the MEG inverse problem, the regions found by ANFISGC were more similar to the clinical findings than those found by the other methods.
Medical Subject Headings
Adult; Cerebral Cortex; Computer Simulation; Connectome; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; Humans; Magnetoencephalography; Models, Theoretical; Neural Networks (Computer); Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
PubMed ID
30010006
Volume
181
First Page
382
Last Page
394
