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Krakencoder analysis reveals subtle sex differences in brain connectomes

A new study published on arXiv analyzes sex-based differences in brain connectomes using the Krakencoder framework. Researchers examined structural and functional connectomes from 702 participants in the Human Connectome Project, assessing the impact of removing individual Yeo-7 functional networks. The Default Mode Network caused the largest perturbations, while the Somatomotor network had the smallest effect. While sex-specific information in predicted connectomes was subtle, full predicted connectomes retained significantly more sex-discriminative information (up to 84.76% accuracy) compared to perturbation-derived signatures alone (66.09% accuracy). AI

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Vibhashree S H, Debanjali Bhattacharya, Vamshi Krishna Kancharla, Neelam Sinha ·

    Sex-based Network-Specific Differences in Connectomes: A Krakencoder-Based Analysis

    arXiv:2606.16294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study examines how deficiencies in one brain connectome modality propagate to the other, using the Krakencoder as a simulation framework. Structural and functional connectomes from 702 healthy participants in the Human Connecto…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Neelam Sinha ·

    Sex-based Network-Specific Differences in Connectomes: A Krakencoder-Based Analysis

    This study examines how deficiencies in one brain connectome modality propagate to the other, using the Krakencoder as a simulation framework. Structural and functional connectomes from 702 healthy participants in the Human Connectome Project were analyzed, with the impact of eac…