Inferring structural connectivity using Ising couplings in models of neuronal networks

Kadirvelu, B., Hayashi, Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9207-6322 and Nasuto, S. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9414-9049 (2017) Inferring structural connectivity using Ising couplings in models of neuronal networks. Scientific Reports, 7 (1). 8156. ISSN 2045-2322 doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-05462-2

Abstract/Summary

Functional connectivity metrics have been widely used to infer the underlying structural connectivity in neuronal networks. Maximum entropy based Ising models have been suggested to discount the effect of indirect interactions and give good results in inferring the true anatomical connections. However, no benchmarking is currently available to assess the performance of Ising couplings against other functional connectivity metrics in the microscopic scale of neuronal networks through a wide set of network conditions and network structures. In this paper, we study the performance of the Ising model couplings to infer the synaptic connectivity in in silico networks of neurons and compare its performance against partial and cross-correlations for different correlation levels, firing rates, network sizes, network densities, and topologies. Our results show that the relative performance amongst the three functional connectivity metrics depends primarily on the network correlation levels. Ising couplings detected the most structural links at very weak network correlation levels, and partial correlations outperformed Ising couplings and cross-correlations at strong correlation levels. The result was consistent across varying firing rates, network sizes, and topologies. The findings of this paper serve as a guide in choosing the right functional connectivity tool to reconstruct the structural connectivity.

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Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Department of Bio-Engineering
Publisher	Nature Publishing Group
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