MARKOV SPATIAL FLOWS IN BOLD FMRI: A NOVEL LENS ON THE BOLD SIGNAL REVEALS ATTRACTING PATTERNS OF SIGNAL INTENSITY.

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The Tri-Institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS Center): Georgia State University, Georgia Inst. of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

Published: December 2023

While the analysis of temporal signal fluctuations and co-fluctuations has long been a fixture of blood oxygenation-level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research, the role and implications of spatial propagation within the 4D neurovascular BOLD signal has been almost entirely neglected. As part of a larger research program aimed at capturing and analyzing spatially propagative dynamics in BOLD fMRI, we report here a method that exposes large-scale functional attractors of spatial flows formulated as Markov processes defined at the voxel level. The brainwide stationary distributions of these voxel-level Markov processes represent patterns of signal accumulation toward which we find evidence that the brain exerts a probabilistic propagative undertow. These probabilistic propagative attractors are spatially structured and organized interpretably over functional regions. They also differ significantly between schizophrenia patients and controls.

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