Diffusion MRI tractography filtering techniques change the topology of structural connectomes.
Matteo FrigoSamuel Deslauriers-GauthierDrew ParkerAbdol Aziz Ould IsmailJunghoon John KimRagini VermaRachid DerichePublished in: Journal of neural engineering (2020)
The present work highlights how the inclusion of tractography filtering techniques in connectomic pipelines requires extra caution as they systematically change the network topology both in healthy subjects and patients affected by traumatic brain injury. Finally, the practice of low-to-moderate density-based thresholding of the connectomes is confirmed to have negligible effects on the topological analysis.